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Man in Iced Body Probe Pleads Not Guilty
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2008/03/11 04:00
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| A man arrested after police found a woman's body packed in dry ice in his hotel room pleaded not guilty Monday to two drug-related charges.pStephen David Royds, 46, is charged with one count each of the sale or transport of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell. A prosecutor said the substance was cocaine./ppOrange County Superior Court Judge Derek G. Johnson set Royds' bail at $1 million./ppRoyds was arrested Thursday after police found the body of Monique Trepp packed in dry ice in a large Rubbermaid container in his hotel room. Police had obtained a warrant to search Royds' room for drugs./ppAn autopsy concluded that Trepp's death was not a homicide and Royds has not been charged with killing her. Toxicology reports were pending, but Dennis Conway, an Orange County assistant district attorney, said it appeared the 33-year-old died of an overdose./ppRoyds' court-appointed public defender, Richard Carmona, did not make himself available to reporters after the brief hearing and didn't immediately return a call for comment./ppIn addition to finding Trepp's body, investigators found drug paraphernalia, drugs and Christmas presents in Royds' room, Conway said./ppPolice and prosecutors have released few other details about the case, including how long Trepp's body was kept in the room. Conway said she had been dating Royds./ppRoyds has a prior drug conviction in Orange County in 2002, but did not appear for sentencing. Even if he were to post the $1 million bail on the new charges, he would be held with no bail on the older case, Conway said./p |
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US cracks multimillion-dollar piracy ring
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2008/03/10 09:25
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| pTwo brothers in the US have been given lengthy jail terms for selling large amounts of pirated computer software. A federal court in Alexandria, Virginia sentenced Maurice Robberson, 48, to three years in prison and ordered him to pay $855,917 in restitution./ppHis brother Thomas Robberson, 55, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $151,488 in restitution. Maurice Robberson pleaded guilty to conspiracy and felony copyright infringement, while his brother Thomas Robberson pleaded guilty to a single count of felony copyright infringement./ppThomas Robberson grossed more than $150,000 selling software with a retail value of nearly $1m by operating Bestvalueshoppe.com and TheDealDepot.net./ppMaurice Robberson grossed more than $855,000 selling software with a retail value of nearly $5.6m through CDsalesUSA.com and AmericanSoftwareSales.com. Both brothers have agreed to forfeit all proceeds from the illegal businesses./ppPeople who steal the intellectual property of others for their personal financial gain, while defrauding consumers who think they are buying legitimate products, will be punished for their crimes, as today's sentences prove, said Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher./p |
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Girard Gibbs Investigates Possible Violation of Diebold, Inc.
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2008/03/10 07:28
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| The law firm of Girard Gibbs LLP (a href=http://www.girardgibbs.com/ target=_blank shape=rectfont color=#000066http://www.girardgibbs.com/font/a) announces that it is investigating alleged violations of fiduciary duties by the board of directors of Diebold, Inc. (NYSE:DBD) (span id=bwanpa0“/spanDieboldspan id=bwanpa1”/span) relating to a buyout offer by United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) (span id=bwanpa2“/spanUnited Technologiesspan id=bwanpa3”/span). pIt is alleged that Dieboldspan id=bwanpa4’/spans directors are violating their fiduciary duties of due care, good faith and loyalty by rejecting without discussion an acquisition offer at a substantial premium by United Technologies, to the detriment of Diebold and its shareholders. Despite the potential to enhance shareholder value beyond that which Diebold can offer as an independent corporation, the board of directors has refused to negotiate with United Technologies. /ppOn March 3, 2008, United Technologies went public with an offer to buy Diebold for $2.63 billion, or $40 a share. This represented a 66% premium to Dieboldspan id=bwanpa5’/spans February 29, 2008 share price of $24.12. United Technologies has stated, in a press release, that if the Diebold board begins merger discussions, it is open to raising the offer price. On the same day, Dieboldspan id=bwanpa6’/spans board categorically rejected the offer and refused further negotiation. /ppIf you own stock in Diebold and you wish to discuss your rights as an investor, please visit our website, a href=http://www.girardgibbs.com/bkr.html target=_blank shape=rectfont color=#000066http://www.girardgibbs.com/dbd.html/font/a, or contact Jonathan K. Levine, Esq. (a href=mailto:jkl@girardgibbs.com target=_blank shape=rectfont color=#000066jkl@girardgibbs.com/font/a) or Aaron M. Sheanin, Esq. (a href=mailto:ams@girardgibbs.com target=_blank shape=rectfont color=#000066ams@girardgibbs.com/font/a) toll free at (866) 981-4800. /p |
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MobiTV, HowardForums avoid legal skirmish
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2008/03/09 09:32
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| pMobile broadcast service providerstrong /strongMobiTV appears to be softening its stance against mobile community resource community HowardForums after hitting the site with a cease-and-desist letter last week. HowardForums earned MobiTV's wrath after posting a web address purportedly enabling end-around access to premium MobiTV content, promising readers free access to all of the firm's streaming mobile TV channels via mobile device or PC. The URL, posted by a HowardForums member, was originally discovered on a Sprint forum and reportedly has been circulating on the web for several months. MobiTV threatened HowardForums with legal action if the site did not remove the URL and related links by 5 p.m. PST Friday, alleging the post constitutes a violation and infringement of MobiTV's intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, its copyright, trademark, and trade secret rights./ppBut in a statement issued late Friday, MobiTV said it would attempt to solve the problem via technological means instead of legal recourse, stating it was actively implementing additional security measures to address this unauthorized access as well as the isolated issue of certain content feeds posted on HowardForums.com and on other websites. It is our responsibility to ensure that our service and the programming entrusted to us by our content providers is protected at all times. MobiTV added it would not attempt to interrupt or shut down HowardForums. While MobiTV maintains the URL was not publicly available, and procured only through hacking or debugging, HowardForums proprietor Howard Chui told emOnlineMediaDaily/em that is untrue: No hacking was involved, he said. MobiTV could've added access control and people wouldn't be able to view it anymore. When I want to protect something online I put a password on it or encrypt it. /p |
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