Air Marshal Accused of Rape at Gunpoint - CBS News Investigates - CBS News

Air Marshal Accused of Rape at Gunpoint - CBS News Investigates - CBS News: "woman claims a federal air marshal forced himself on her after he stood naked with his government ID badge around his neck holding a gun.
A U.S. federal air marshal was arrested Saturday, accused of raping a woman at gunpoint inside a Seattle hotel room while on a layover for his job."

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former CEO of Homestore.com has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in federal prison for artificially inflating the company's ad revenue.

The former CEO of Homestore.com has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in federal prison for artificially inflating the company's ad revenue.
Prosecutors say 46-year-old Stuart Wolff was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles and ordered to begin serving his time in June.
Judge Gary A. Feess says the scheme was a "calculated deception of the public."
Wolff pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to commit securities fraud through "round-trip" transactions in 2001.
Homestore paid vendors for products and services that the company didn't need or use. Those vendors then returned the money to the company, which listed the funds as $60 million in phony advertising revenue.
When the scheme was revealed, the company's stock plummeted and at least 1,000 jobs were cut.

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promotion for the new Splinter Cell game in Auckland New Zealand ends with police nearly shooting a man.

Someone, somewhere is getting fired right now. In a promotion for the newly released game, Splinter Cell: Convictions, a marketing company in New Zealand thought that it might be fun to send an actor down to the busy Viaduct Basin section of Auckland and engage with shop goers and bar patrons. With an imitation gun. Police were not amused.The NZ Herald is reporting that a man with a bandaged hand and carrying a plastic gun (the gun and bandaged hand are visually distinctive marks of the game’s title character Sam Fisher) was seen wandering by a pub, when the actor pointed a gun at several people. Hilarity ensued.Terrified screams filled the street, as people began to scramble for cover, diving behind tables and running in every direction. Police quickly responded, fully prepared for a shootout. Luckily for the Sam Fisher wanna-be, the New Zealand police have never been to LA, so a brief conversation turned the possibly tragic shootout into an incredibly stupid incident.

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Daily Herald | Arlington Hts. police working to ID body parts found Saturday

Daily Herald | Arlington Hts. police working to ID body parts found Saturday: "Arlington Heights police are investigating the discovery of a partial human corpse found in an alleyway behind 21 N. Dryden at the Marketview Apartments in Arlington Heights."

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