She represented real-estate executive Charles Kushner's brother-in-law, Richard Stadtmauer, on charges that he wrote off millions of dollars in donations from the company's taxes.

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And Prince Charles' one-time sister-in-law, Sarah Ferguson, landed Britain's former Foreign Minister David Miliband, in hot water, according to a cable described in the Guardian newspaper but not yet published by WikiLeaks.

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Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland on Monday found Mr Ford's "ignorance of the law" amounted to "wilful blindness".

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