DETROIT -- Outspoken lawyer Geoffrey Fieger and a law partner knowingly dodged campaign finance laws by conspiring to boost contributions to Democrat John Edwards' 2004 presidential campaign, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
But Fieger lawyer Gerry Spence told the jury in Detroit federal court that his client reimbursed employees for donations in a way he thought was legal and didn't th...
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Federal officials on Thursday opened a path to temporary legal status for illegal immigrants whose spouses or parents died on 9/11, a step the families' supporters called a breakthrough in the effort to allow them to remain permanently in the United States.
Lawyers for the immigrants said a concession by Homeland Security officials would help to bring the family members out of the shadow...