June 2002 News Today

Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really s...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one ...

Together, jean and jim got married in las vegas. >> and i was asked by jean if i would walk her down the aisle. >> was she happy? >> oh, yeah. all smiles. both of them were all smiles. >> but the smiles did not last long. in june 2002, jim huden returned here to washington state for the funeral of an old friend. and it was here that fate intervened. a tall red-haired beauty caught jims eye. it was the beginning of a love triangle, one that would wreck the lives of a lot of people involved and so...

Could concentrate on music. >> i kind of pushed him towards doing that because i knew that was his love and thats where he was most happy. >> were you in love with him? very much so. i loved that man very much. >> so much so that in december 2001, after six years of living together, jean and jim got married in las vegas. >> and i was asked by jean if i would walk her down the aisle. >> was she happy? >> oh, yeah. all smiles. both of them were all smiles. >> but the smiles did not last long. in j...

He was a neighbory pilot, getting ready to fly. >> we were told what our mission would be. the mission was to attack a radio station on the island. >> reporter: on a spectacularly sunny day on june, 2002, president bush returned to the place where he almost lost his life. a remote island 700 miles off the coast of japan. >> now, how do we thank all these people? >> very nice. thank you. >> today is a sleepy, natural

This, because i dont want to be sounding like im different. im not. >> september 2nd, 1944. the day that would end up defining the war for 20-year-old george h.w. bush. he was a navy pilot getting ready to fly off the aircraft carrier. >> we went to the briefing roonl. the mission was to attack a radio station on the island. >> on a spectacularly sunny day in june 2002, president bush returned to the place where he almost lost his life. a remote island 700 miles off the coast of japan. >> now, h...

Jean and jim got married in las vegas. and i was asked, by jean, if i would walk her down the aisle. was she happy? oh, yeah. all smiles, both of them were all smiles. josh mankiewicz: but the smiles did not last long. in june 2002, jim huden returned here to washington state for the funeral of an old friend. and it was here that fate intervened. a tall, red-haired beauty caught jims eye. it was the beginning of a love triangle, one that would wreck the lives of all the people who were involved-...

Hell soon travel to the vatican to discuss with the pope his possible resignation. wuerl faces increasing calls to step down over his handling of clergy sex abuse cases. >> in a letter to priests in the d.c. diocese, he writes at issue is how begin to effectively bring a new level of healing to survivors who have personally suffered so much and to the faithful entrusted to our care who have been wounded by the shame of these terrible actions and have questions about their bishops ability to prov...

At the time they called it the equivalent of the death penalty for their firm. that was not far off. arthur andersen llp as an entity got convicted in june 2002. by august of 2002, arthur andersen had gone out of business. the point being you dont have to have an actual pulse to get indicted, just ask arthur andersen llp, not a person but very much dead. in the allegations laid out by the southern district of new york involving the presidents long time personal attorney michael cohen, they menti...

Along with them, arthur andersen, sounds like a mans name but arthur anderson in the enron case was not a person, a firm. they indicted arthur andersen of obstruction of justice. they called it the equivalent of the death penalty for their firm. that was not far off. arthur andersen llp as an entity got convicted in june 2002. by august of 2002, arthur andersen had gone out of business. the point being you dont have to have an actual pulse to get indicted, just ask arthur andersen llp, not a per...