Criminal Record

NY Times Building Climber Alain Robert Fined, Sentenced to Community Service — Photo via AnimalNY/Anthony Macaluso. While climbers #2 and 3, Renaldo Clarke and David Malone, were indicted for scaling the New York Times building earlier this year and currently face up to a year in prison, climber #1, Alain Robert, has received a slap on the wrist. With a grand jury rejecting criminal charges this summer, he pleaded guilty yesterday to disorderly conduct (which has no criminal record attached), and was fined $250 and three days community service. The NY Times reports that assistant DA Heather Person asked that he not be able to serve his hours at an environmental... [Tags: alain robert, best interest, climbers, criminal charges, criminal record]

Jailed fraudster Conrad Black asks for clemency from Bush — Conrad Black, the disgraced British peer serving a 6½-year sentence in Florida for defrauding millions from his former media empire, has asked President Bush to grant him clemency before leaving the White House.The US justice department has confirmed that it is considering the request. An agreement by the president could involve either pardoning the offence, which would erase the criminal record, or commuting it. Black, 64, was chairman and chief executive officer of Hollinger International the third largest media empire of its day, for eight years. It included titles such as the Daily Telegraph, the Jerusalem Post and the New... [Tags: british peer, chief executive officer, clemency application, coleman florida, commutation]

LinkedIn or Facebook for Security Clearance Checks #risk #linkedin — I went over to visit Peter Went this week, his company WCC Group produces a Fuzzy Logic Database which amongst other things used for matching Biometric Data. He said he was going to be in Milan today giving a talk to start discussion on the following point. Governments only really know about 5-10% of their population, a few because they have had a security clearance check performed and the rest because they have a criminal record. The remaining 90-95% of their population they have no clue about, they only know whether they paid there taxes. (Percentages may vary slightly.) A... [Tags: biometric data, checks, clearance procedure, clue, criminal record]

Sam Israel, Hedge Fund Suicide Faker, Locked Away After "Great Sex" — THE first thing Sam Israel, the CEO of collapsed hedge fund Bayou, did after receiving a 20-year sentence to federal prison in April was have "crazy sex" with his girlfriend, Debra Ryan. Israel, 48, faked his own death in June to avoid prison by scrawling "Suicide Is Painless" on the hood of his abandoned car. He'd already been sentenced and ordered to pay his swindled victims $350 million, but the judge had given him "six weeks to settle his affairs." Israel vanished the morning he was supposed to surrender. Weeks later, his mother handed him over to authorities. Now Ryan,... [Tags: addiction, armed and dangerous, authorities, ceo, crazy sex]

Alarm Raised on Teenage Hackers [Voices] — By Mark Ward, Technology correspondent, BBC News Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips. The poor technical skills of many young hackers means they are very likely to get caught and arrested, they say. Youth workers added that any teenager getting a criminal record would be putting their future at risk. “I see kids of 11 and 12 sharing credit card details and asking for hacks,” said Chris Boyd, director of malware research at FaceTime Security. Many teenagers got into low level crime by looking for exploits... [Tags: bbc, chris boyd, computer security professionals, cracks, credit card details]

BeenVerified hopes to make background checks easier and cheaper — BeenVerified is looking to shake up the background-checking industry with cheap and fast solutions that small businesses can afford. The New York-based company is launching a service today that can perform an automated background check on job applicants for as little as $10 and turn the results around within a day. While big companies can afford the services of professional investigation firms such as Kroll Associates, small businessses cannot. As a result, many don’t even conduct background checks. Those checks could reveal if your nanny has a criminal record or if your job candidate is for real. “We made it... [Tags: background checks, co founder, college degrees, courts records, credit card transaction]

iPod Touch Survives Total Pickup Truck Crushing [IPod] — Believe it or not, this iPod touch is alive after being crushed by a pickup truck almost beyond the point of no return And I don't mean "alive" as in a Connect-it-to-your-computer-and-see-if-it's-still-functioning kind of way. I mean that it actually works, screen included: And it actually looks good below all that shattered glass. It will probably cut your fingertips though, which is good for your criminal record but bad for your iPod touch's blood tolerance. [iPod Touch Fans—Thanks DoctorOctagon]... [Tags: criminal record, fingertips, ipod touch, pickup truck, point of no return]

iPod Touch Survives Brutal Pickup Truck Crushing [IPod] — Believe it or not, this iPod touch is alive after being crushed by a pickup truck almost beyond the point of no return And I don't mean "alive" as in a Connect-it-to-your-computer-and-see-if-it's-still-functioning kind of way. I mean that it actually works, screen included: And it actually looks good below all that shattered glass. It will probably cut your fingertips though, which is good for your criminal record but bad for your iPod touch's blood tolerance. [iPod Touch Fans—Thanks DoctorOctagon]... [Tags: criminal record, fingertips, ipod touch, pickup truck, point of no return]

Kathy McManus: Little-Understood Responsibilities in Navigating Online Criminal Records — My first inclination was to have second thoughts. About opening the Pandora's box implicit in this question: "Do you really know who people are?" The question nags from a new website called CriminalSearches.com, which invites users to type in the name of any adult anywhere in the U.S. and see if the person has a criminal record. For free. "We created CriminalSearches.com to help consumers make the most educated decisions about the people they let into their personal lives and the lives of their loved ones," said the company's president and CEO. CriminalSeaches urges users to run criminal background checks... [Tags: burglar, city neighborhood, criminal background checks, criminal record, eric richard]

Totally False Propaganda About File Sharing Being Given To Studens As Educational Material — It's no secret that both the MPAA and the RIAA have created so-called "educational campaigns" for students about copyright. These educational programs are incredibly one-side, of course, and it's amazing that many schools actually allow this sort of corporate propaganda to masquerade as educational material. Even more problematic is when an entirely separate organization, supposedly offering a non-biased educational campaign, starts parroting the propaganda. The nonprofit National Center for State Courts, whose charter apparently is as an "organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to court systems in the United States," has done just... [Tags: administration of justice, cops, corporate propaganda, criminal record, downloading songs]

Middle Class Supports Key Progressive Policies, Study Shows — ThinkProgress is touting an encouraging study from the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy that indicates that wide swaths of middle-class Americans support a broad array of policies that are typically written off as being out of the mainstream. Furthermore, that support is not confined to self-identified Democrats. From DMI: DMI's first annual survey on the Middle Class and Public Policy reveals that America's middle-class households are fearful families - overwhelmingly pessimistic about the direction of the country, especially the economy and high gas prices. Most have little flexibility in their own economic situations and have little if anything left... [Tags: aisle, consensus, criminal record, dmi, economic situations]

Lee Stranahan: Andrew Young's Criminal Record And The John Edwards Scandal — Andrew Aldridge Young is the former Edwards campaign worker and assistant who has claimed to be the father of John Edward's mistress Rielle Hunter's baby. Young has a wife and three children. Dallas attorney and John Edwards supporter Fred Baron recently confirmed that he financed Young, his family, and Hunter's move to Santa Barbara, claiming to have financed the move and living expenses without the knowledge of Edwards. Young's name does not appear on the Hunter baby's birth certificate, which has kept open questions about whether Young is actually the father. Now public records searches reveal a history of criminal... [Tags: andrew aldridge, andrew young, campaign worker, court disposition, criminal offenses]

Criminal Record No Bar For Fla. Loan Business — About 10,000 people in the loan business got Florida state licenses despite having criminal records. Jack Dolan, lead investigative reporter for the Miami Herald series Borrowers Betrayed, says many of them fleeced customers.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us... [Tags: borrowers, criminal record, criminal records, e mail, florida state licenses]