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Seattle and German Museums Return Looted Art and New York Museum Settles |
Increasingly, art museums are agreeing to return stolen cultural property and in some cases settling with private owners... [more] |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Germany |
Art and Cultural Property |
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Judge Hoeveler Dismisses All But One Charge and then Sentences Cali Cartel Lawyers |
On June 12 and 17, 1999, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler sentenced William Moran and Michael Abbell, former defense counsel for the Cali cartel, after throwing out all but one charge, thereby... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Colombia |
Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy, Drugs & Trafficking |
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British Arrests Two Suspects in U.S. Embassy Bombings as U.S. Applies Sanctions Against Afghanistan for Hosting Bin Laden |
On July 11, 1999, British police arrested two men in London on a U.S. warrant charging them with conspiring with Osama bin Laden in the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya, tanzania, Afghanistan |
Terrorism |
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France Convicts Noriega and Wife of Money Laundering |
On July 1, 1999, a French court convicted Gen. Manuel Noriega and his wife in absentia of laundering $2.7 million in drug profits through French banks for Colombia’s Medillin drug cartel in 1988 and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
France |
Money Laundering |
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U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds U.S. International Counterrorism Law |
On June 25, 1999, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the designations of U.S. Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Iran |
Terrorism |
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Jamaica Gang Leader to U.S. on Narcotics and Racketeering Charges |
On July 8, 1999, Jamaican officials extradited Vivian Blake, the alleged leader of the Shower Posse and one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, to the U.S. on eight counts of racketeering, drug... |
Bruce Zagaris |
15 |
8 |
1999-08-01 |
United States, Jamaica |
Extradition, Drugs & Trafficking |
