But his efforts to make online content available for free ultimately brought him into conflict with federal prosecutors.
Deutsche Bank struck a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in Manhattan to resolve a federal tax shelter fraud investigation.
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But with federal prosecutors now on the case, Mulqueen was indicted only on a weapon-possession charge, the Rockland County prosecutors said.
As part of his plea deal with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Nemazee agreed to forfeit his stakes in all sorts of assets.
The university has come under fire for what critics say is MIT's compliance with federal prosecutors in the legal case against Swartz.
Google is currently in talks with federal prosecutors to settle the case before it reaches court, according to people familiar with the matter.
He faces between 12 months and 18 months in prison, according to the terms of his plea agreement with federal prosecutors in Manhattan.
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Chad Elie struck a deal with federal prosecutors in Manhattan that will see him sentenced to between six months and one year in jail.
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During the court hearing, Judge W Curtis Sewell sided with federal prosecutors who maintained that Mr Walker Lindh posed a threat to the public.
As part of his original plea deal, Dikshit agreed to cooperate in an ongoing investigation with federal prosecutors, who did not seek any jail time.
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One of the former tech company employees, Daniel Devore, who worked as a global supply manager at Dell, has already pleaded guilty and is cooperating with federal prosecutors.
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The plea by Juan Ortiz, chief financial officer of Future Tech International (FTI), comes three weeks after the Justice Department announced Ortiz had reached an agreement with federal prosecutors.
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PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, which have consistently insisted their operations do not violate U.S. law, have since suspended their U.S. operations and cut deals with federal prosecutors to facilitate the return of funds to online poker players in the U.S. One of the 11 people indicted, Bradley Frazen, recently pleaded guilty and said he had improperly processed financial transactions for online poker companies.
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"We've settled a lot, " says Mr. Dudley, ticking off agreements with federal agencies, prosecutors and private litigants.
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The accused shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, is in custody and has been charged by federal prosecutors with attempted assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the federal government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee.
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Ribotsky has cooperated fully with the investigation, including answering the questions of federal prosecutors, people familiar with the investigation say.
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But with no offer of immunity from federal prosecutors, Huang has refused to testify before Thompson.
Federal prosecutors charged each with one count of securities fraud related to Sedona.
Harriet Miers, the president's former White House counsel, exploring with high-ranking officials of the Justice Department, the removal of all federal prosecutors so that the White House could have a free hand filling those ranks with nothing but political loyalists.
An indictment filed by federal prosecutors charges O'Shea with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Federal prosecutors claim that Dworkin conspired with others to mislead at least one investor by making untrue statements.
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Some saw it as a harmless stunt, but U.S. prosecutors disagreed and slapped Swartz with federal charges for which he could have faced decades in prison.
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Indeed, Dikshit, who is married with two children, had reached out to federal prosecutors in the U.S. to initiate the negotiations that resulted in his 2008 guilty plea.
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Rather than bringing criminal charges based on a specific underlying transaction in which a bank or other financial institution failed to file a Currency Transaction Report or Suspicious Activity Report, federal prosecutors are charging financial institutions with an overall failure to maintain an effective program to prevent money laundering.
Federal and state prosecutors have reached settlements with large international banks, including ING and the British bank Standard Chartered, for their sanctions busting transactions with countries such asCuba andIran.
Sheila Nemazee is also trying to shield two Italian properties--an apartment in Rome purchased in 2004 for 1.65 million euros and a farmhouse in Puglia purchased in 2006 for 1.75 million euros-- from federal prosecutors, saying they were purchased with funds that were not tied to any fraudulent conduct and belong to her under both New York and Italian law.
Part of those lies, according the federal prosecutors, was that interview Raj did with the Daily Beast.
Federal prosecutors allege Keys provided the hacking group Anonymous with login information to access the computer system of The Tribune Co.
Worse, Mr Spitzer, the SEC and federal prosecutors suspect that AIG might have done deals with third parties to boost its own reserves and profits.
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