SAN FRANCISCO—Donald Tosti was sentenced Feb. 2, 2012, to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
CHICAGO—A Chicago man, who personally provided hundreds of dollars to an alleged terrorist leader with whom he had met in his native Pakistan, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide additional funds to the same individual after learning he was working with al Qaeda. The defendant, Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organ...
Ever since Megaupload was shut down for online piracy on Jan 19, at least 50 million daily visitors were about one thing - how will they retrieve the files they had uploaded and stored on the site? On Monday, their concerns grew as the hosting companies for Megaupload site threatened to delete the user files as Megaupload, whose assets have been frozen, could not pay their fees. However, there's some temporary respite for the users now.
