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| Special Report - Military knew about bizarre methods of doctor hired to train troops | | Thursday, June 18, 2015 1:11 AM | |
|  The doctor, John Henry Hagmann, often required that those who took or helped teach his courses sign non-disclosure agreements. In 2005, for instance, the commander of U.S. Special Forces became so alarmed by what his aides observed during one of Hagmann's training courses that the commander ordered all such private training halted, according to interviews and military documents reviewed by Reuters. In his order, General Bryan Brown wrote that aides witnessed "potentially hazardous physiological demonstrations" performed on U.S. troops.
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| Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions | | Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:36 AM | |
|  By Karolin Schaps and David Ingram BERNE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA's embattled president, Sepp Blatter, and his second-in-command have hired high-powered lawyers to represent them, two sources said as a corruption probe engulfs football's global governing body with Swiss authorities identifying suspicious bank transactions. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. Jerome Valcke, FIFA secretary general, has hired prominent New York defence attorney Barry Berke to represent him, a separate person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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| Exclusive - FIFA's Blatter, Valcke hire U.S. lawyers for corruption probe | |  By David Ingram and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter and its Secretary General Jerome Valcke have both hired high-powered U.S. lawyers to represent them as a corruption probe roils soccer's global governing body. Blatter recently retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Separately, Blatter's top lieutenant, Valcke, has hired prominent New York defence attorney Barry Berke, a second source said.
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| Blatter hires counsel as Swiss FIFA probe eyes bank transactions | | By Karolin Schaps and Mark Hosenball BERNE (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter, FIFA's embattled president, has hired a high-powered U.S. lawyer to represent him, a source said on Wednesday as a corruption probe engulfs football's global governing body with Swiss authorities identifying suspicious bank transactions. Blatter retained Richard Cullen, the chairman of the law firm McGuireWoods and a former U.S. federal prosecutor, said the person familiar with the matter who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity. Swiss prosecutors looking into the international football scandal identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney general said on Wednesday, stressing that the investigation may take time.
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| Exclusive - FIFA's Valcke hires U.S. lawyer for corruption probe | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has hired a prominent New York defence attorney in the face of corruption investigations that have roiled the world football body, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Defence lawyer Barry Berke has been hired to represent Valcke, who is FIFA President Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant. Berke, a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, most recently represented Michael Steinberg, a portfolio manager at Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund.
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| U.S. House defeats bid to withdraw troops from Iraq | |  The U.S. House of Representatives rejected legislation on Wednesday that would have forced President Barack Obama to pull all U.S. troops from Iraq and Syria as soon as one month from now, but nearly one-third of the chamber voted for the measure. The House voted 288-139 to defeat the concurrent resolution, which would have required Obama to remove the troops within 30 days, or by the end of 2015 if the administration determined it was not safe to do so within the 30-day timeframe. The resolution was introduced by Democratic Representatives Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Barbara Lee of California and Republican Representative Walter Jones of North Carolina.
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