The former trader, Charles Craig Gile, 42, of Longwood, Fla., entered the plea in Federal District Court in Manhattan three weeks after David Becker, 40, of Great Neck, N.Y., the former head of Citibank's worldwide commodities trading activity, pleaded guilty to the same charges.
A Baltimore inmate accused of running a sophisticated jailhouse gang, and impregnating some of the guards who helped enable that gang's profitable activities, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy charges this week.
In answer to moderator Anderson Cooper's question on why Chafee chose as a US senator to vote in 1999 to repeal Glass-Steagall, the 1933 law that separated commercial and investment banking activities, Chafee pleaded that it was his "very first vote," and that his father had died shortly before he had arrived in the Senate.
Unlike prosecutors in the Justice Department's criminal division, those responsible for prosecuting environmental crimes have long believed that "corporations that engage in criminal activity should plead guilty or be convicted at trial, and should not be allowed to escape criminal prosecution by paying large non-criminal penalties," Uhlmann added.
A lawyer accused of joining the criminal activities of his clients pleaded guilty yesterday to obstruction of justice and conspiracy to distribute heroin.
Mr. O'Keefe, who first gained notice for secretly videotaping his exchanges with workers for the community organizing group Acorn who appeared to advise him how to avoid prosecution for a variety of unsavory activities like child prostitution, pleaded guilty last year in connection with entering the New Orleans office of Senator Mary Landrieu under false pretenses.
Abramoff may have pushed the envelope in his efforts to lobby vigorously for his clients, but he did not believe he was guilty of the serious criminal activities to which he pleaded guilty.
Hours pass in which little or nothing happens, and then there may be a flurry of activity, with defendants pleading guilty, or not, to charges of prostitution, drug possession, minor assault and petty larceny.
Social conservative activists around Ohio were busy posting Santorum lawn signs, making phone calls and promoting his candidacy at church services across the state in a last volley of activity on Sunday, pleading for neighbors not to take orders from party leaders who are urging rank-and-file voters to fall in behind Mr. Romney.
Johnson has admitted one charge of sexual activity with a child and pleaded guilty to grooming the 15-year-old.
On Wednesday, all of those banks pleaded guilty to activities that sound straight out of The Wolf of Wall Street: Operating in chat rooms with code names like "the mafia" and "the cartel," groups of traders colluded to fix the prices of the euro and the dollar to each others' advantage.
