Matthew Barakat
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/ 30 March 2006

Man gets 30 years for Bush-assassination plot

An American Muslim convicted of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush was sentenced to 30 years behind bars by a judge who compared him to ”American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Prosecutors had asked for the maximum for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old US citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and raised in Virginia.

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/ 14 January 2005

Former AOL chief pleads guilty to fraud charges

America Online’s former chief of human resources pleaded guilty to fraud on Thursday for profiting from a sham consulting contract, and court documents allege he ran similar schemes at two other companies. Prosecutors estimated that Gregory Horton (38) defrauded AOL of  000, AutoNation of ,8-million and Qwest Communications of  000.