NEW YORK — A Wall Street trader convicted in a massive probe of insider trading at hedge funds has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Michael Kimelman was convicted in June of conspiracy to trade on confidential information. The ...

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Federal prosecutors said Tuesday a prominent state senator sold his office for more than $245,000 to help a grocery store chain over several years, but the senator’s lawyers say he arranged meetings to help store officials navigate the bureaucracy of ...

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A Rockville pharmaceutical biotechnology company has been awarded a $22.8 million default judgment against a Swiss consulting firm it hired to help it raise cash in foreign markets for its cancer-fighting therapy. CytImmune Sciences Inc. filed the lawsuit on Jan. ...

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WASHINGTON — Authorities say 17 people have been indicted in a drug trafficking probe. Fifteen have been arrested. The 17 were indicted on Aug. 4 on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, ...

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A recently disbarred lawyer from Montgomery County will be sentenced this week to as much as 20 years in prison for his role in a multistate insurance scam ring. Amir Ryan Lahuti, 45, was one of four people who recruited ...

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A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to dismiss the remainder of the bribery charges against a Maryland state senator accused of using his influence to benefit a grocery store chain. After federal prosecutors dropped nearly half of the ...

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GREENBELT — The owner of an auto glass store in Prince George’s County has pleaded guilty in a plot to traffic millions of contraband cigarettes across state lines. Amir Miljkovic pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt on Friday to ...

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Federal prosecutors have dropped nearly half of the bribery charges against Maryland state Sen. Ulysses Currie. In court filings last week, U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein wrote that a Supreme Court decision renders charges of honest services fraud legally duplicative of ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Maryland lawyer has pleaded guilty to a money laundering conspiracy after admitting that he took in tens of thousands of dollars from drug traffickers. Thirty-nine-year-old Brian W. Young of Upper Marlboro, Md., entered his guilty plea ...

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UPPER MARLBORO — Leslie Johnson is keeping mum about her federal corruption case even as federal prosecutors are signaling that a resolution may be near. The Prince George’s County councilwoman sat silently during a council meeting Tuesday, then headed out ...

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