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#398 Updated: 4/18/07 12:26 p.m.

Prosecutors tie payments to Conrad Black's company
The first of what became a series of payments growing into the alleged $60 million
fraud Conrad Black and his associates are charged with was mapped out at the
Canadian company that the failed media mogul controlled, prosecutors said on
Tuesday.

Lay's widow claims assets
Former Enron Chairman Ken Lay's widow says she is the rightful owner of his
share of assets that the government wants to seize.

HENDRICKS COUNTY BUILDER SENTENCED FOR BANK FRAUD
The defendant found that his real estate development and home construction
business required funding beyond what he was able to raise through bank
financing or investor financing and by 1998 he was engaged in check kiting and
bank loan schemes.

Sentencing in Jemal case delayed a day
Jemal, who last October was convicted of wire fraud but cleared of bribery and
conspiracy charges, was to be sentenced Monday morning before Judge Ricardo
Urbina in U.S. District Court. The hearing, however, has been rescheduled for
Tuesday at 10 a.m., according to the court.

Former executive pleads guilty to conspiracy, money laundering
A Bowling Green man who was environmental director for Fruit of the Loom in
Bowling Green pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the company and two
counts of money laundering, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.