The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.
Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.
Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden briefed President Barack Obama in a private meeting on Friday, as the President told the troops involved job well done.
U.S. authorities, as well as defense attorneys, need to ramp up their understanding of complex financial instruments as populist anger puts pressure on the government to bring more business fraud cases, a top U.S. defense lawyer said on Friday.