California Man Set for Wine Warehouse Fire Hearing
A San Francisco wine keeper who was ready to stand trial for a fire that destroyed a warehouse has scheduled a change-of-plea hearing. The 2005 fire in the warehouse caused the loss of over six million bottles of wine, and an estimated two hundred fifty million dollars‘ worth of damage. The warehouse stored wines for [...]
Broker Gets Two Months in Jail in Tax Probe
A yacht broker in Florida has been sentenced to two months in jail for a tax conviction as a result of an investigation of secret accounts at a Swiss bank. British-born Robert Moran was facing over a year in prison on Friday, but asked for probation because he had helped prosecutors. Judge James I. Cohn [...]