The charges drew a combative response from the Brookses even before prosecutors announced the details.
The Obama administration's decisions to fine two big British banks, HSBC and Standard Chartered, over money laundering instead of pursuing criminal charges drew strong rebuke.
The sensational charges drew a worried response from Washington and brought Iraq's tenuous partnership government to the edge of collapse.
The portents do not look good for Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, whose trial on highly dubious sodomy charges draws to a close this week.
The increasingly contentious issue of hospital charges drew renewed attention last week when the federal government released Medicare data showing that facilities nationwide submitted widely divergent bills for the same treatments.
But by bringing the crowds on to the same streets as in November 2003, the opposition made a telling point against President Mikhail Saakashvili.The man whose arrest on corruption charges drew out the protesters is a former defence minister, Irakly Okruashvili.
The bankrupt company's former CEO is facing a number of civil suits, and the possibility of criminal charges draws nearer with each former underling that does a perp walk.
The charges drawn up by Mr Moreno-Ocampo pertain only to misdeeds committed since February this year, when civil war escalated and the UN called in the court as one of many instruments designed to thwart the Qaddafi regime.
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