Dec 23rd, 2008 · A probe into Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme is revealing a Web of lieutenants who aided him in defrauding investors of over $50 billion. Wall Street Journal reporter Amir Efrati discusses the latest from the Madoff case.
Dec 12th, 2008 · The growing calls for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to resign are now bringing an unlikely character closer and closer to the highest office in his state. Illinois' lieutenant governor Pat Quinn has had an unorthodox career.
Dec 11th, 2008 · Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn says if Illinois legislators do not begin impeachment hearings soon, he supports having the state attorney general going to the Supreme Court to remove Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. Quinn talks about the reasons for his position.
Oct 21st, 2008 · A former Chicago police lieutenant was arrested Tuesday and charged with lying about the alleged torture of suspects. For decades, criminal suspects on Chicago's south side complained they'd been beaten and abused while being interrogated by detectives.
Mar 12th, 2008 · New York governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that he will resign. His lieutenant governor, Dave Paterson, will take over on Monday. Paterson will be the first African American -- and blind -- governor of the state.
Nov 21st, 2007 · Milo Radulovich, a former Air Force reserve lieutenant who became a national news story when he got caught up in the McCarthy-era Red Scare, died this week.
Nov 15th, 2007 · A civilian court has stepped in on the case of war resister Ehren Watada, an Army first lieutenant who faced court-martial for refusing to deploy to Iraq. The federal court's involvement gives Watada a much stronger chance of winning, but it means his central argument would go untested in court.
Sep 4th, 2007 · Iraq's High Tribunal upholds the sentences on "Chemical Ali" al-Majid and two other lieutenants of Saddam Hussein for their roles in a decades-old massacre of Kurds that killed up to 180,000 people.