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The lawyer prosecuting the federal fraud case against the founder of Gateway to a Cure told the jury Wednesday the defendant doesn’t deserve to be believed. “This man is not believable on anything past his name,” Mike Reap, an assistant ...

An Army reserve captain with significant legislative experience is the Missouri judiciary’s new state courts administrator. Greg Linhares will begin his job next year once the U.S. Army releases him from reserve duty in Savannah, Ga., the state Supreme Court ...

Visa Inc., the world’s largest credit-card company, may pay $2.25 billion to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought three years ago by rival American Express Co., CNBC reported Wednesday without citing anyone. The tentative settlement was approved by Visa’s general counsel ...

A former AT&T Inc. technician urged U.S. lawmakers not to shield the company from lawsuits alleging that it violated customers’ privacy by giving their telephone and e-mail records to intelligence officials. The litigation is “probably the last, best chance for ...

Former Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Charles Prince, who quit after the bank warned of billions of dollars in additional writedowns on subprime mortgages and related securities, misled investors about the company’s growth prospects, a shareholder claims in a lawsuit. ...

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said running the Justice Department isn’t a political job and urged Congress to refrain from the partisan attacks that caused his successor to resign under pressure. A consultant and lobbyist in Washington, Ashcroft was ...

A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday cleared Michael B. Mukasey’s nomination to be President George W. Bush’s third attorney general, setting the stage for probable confirmation by the full Senate this week. Two Democrats joined all nine Republicans on the ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices used a case involving FedEx Corp. as an occasion to blast the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for its handling of worker discrimination complaints. Hearing arguments Tuesday in Washington, several members of the court faulted the EEOC ...

A nice man who got in over his head and consulted a priest instead of a lawyer — that’s the impression Carl L. “Lou” Sengheiser tried to convey Tuesday as he testified in his defense against federal mail fraud charges. ...

A judge in the seat of state government may soon find himself on the other side of the bench, after being arrested over the weekend on suspicion of drunken driving. Cole County Senior Judge Byron Kinder was arrested shortly after ...