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Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil execs, orders prison Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela have been found guilty of corruption charges and immediately sentenced to prison.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, dashing hopes of a quick release that would send them home to their families in the United States.

The so-called Citgo 6 are employees of Houston-based Citgo refining company, which is owned by Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA. »

It fell to Marks to provide individual agents with the ciphers with which to send information to London by radio.

Such ciphers were virtually unbreakable in the pre-computer age, and were not new; but Marks refined a stratagem still used long after the war.

He ended one dummy message to Holland with the letters HH, a common German sign-off standing for Heil Hitler. »

The European Union has fined two pharmaceutical companies for colluding to keep a cheap alternative to a sleep disorder medicine off the market for their profit and at the expense of patients.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has fined two pharmaceutical companies for colluding to keep a cheap alternative to a sleep disorder medicine off the market for their profit and at the expense of patients. »

A man who donated $2.5m to help Donald Trump's crusade to overturn the elections is asking for his money back.

Fred Eshelman, the donor, is suing Houston-based "True the Vote Inc" for what he claims are "empty promises," Bloomberg reported.

True The Vote claimed it had a multi-part plan to "investigate, litigate and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election," the lawsuit said. »