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Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and Edward K. Anderton, 25, of Everett have signed federal plea agreements that will likely send them to prison for several years, Kirsch's lawyer, Ronald Greenblatt, said Monday. U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehad announced that charges stemming from the $120,000 scheme had been moved to federal court. Since her arrest, Kirsch's friends and classmates have stepped forward to portray her as a serial liar who even masked her identity when she met the heir to the British throne at a student forum during his visit to Philadelphia last year; in a favorite myth, she told the prince she...

PHILADELPHIA - A young couple accused of financing a lavish lifestyle through a large-scale identity theft scheme surrendered to police Wednesday to face additional theft and burglary charges. Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, and boyfriend Edward Anderton, who turned 25 Wednesday, used the scam to live affluently in Philadelphia and take numerous international vacations, authorities said.

(Hartford-AP, November 5, 2006 8:45 AM)_ Three of the four youths who are accused of disrupting Senator Joe Lieberman's campaign event Friday in Hartford with an obscenity-laced serenade remained in jail yesterday. Hans Wendlandt and Michael Kirsch, both of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Stewart of Oakland, California, were held on one thousand-500 dollars bail. They were charged with interfering with police, breach of peace and resisting arrest. Myles Robinson, also of Brookline, was charged with breach of peace and was released on a promise to appear in court. A spokeswoman for the political action committee of the perennial presidential candidate,...

CEO COP: Ex-Internet honcho Steven Kirsch is pulling out the stops to bust up global money-laundering operations. Photo: AP Steven Kirsch, who founded search engine Infoseek and sold it to Disney in 1998 for about $200 million, has transformed his annoyance with receiving a penny-stock touting fax into a pivotal role in last week's indictment of an international tax-fraud ring......the US Attorney's office in the Western District of North Carolina indicted four people for running the ring, including Samuel Currin, a former federal prosecutor and state judge in North Carolina. The ring, masterminded by husband-and-wife team, Howell and Vernice...

For those who think that there is too much money in politics (and think most of it is Republican) there is just one word -- Soros. That is George Soros, the left-wing radical billionaire who has pledged to personally spend tens of millions of dollars to try to unseat George Bush in 2004. Defeating the Bush administration -- which he recklessly likened to Nazis and communists -- has become an obsessive focus of Soros life. His recent $10 million contribution to the new Democrat activist group America Coming Together was the largest single donation from an individual in history. Soros...

<p>Washington -- In the frantic final days before the 2000 presidential election, a wealthy Bay Area Internet executive not known for making big political contributions poured more than $1.2 million into Democratic party committees in key battleground states.</p> <p>Steve T. Kirsch, a founder of Infoseek and CEO of San Jose-based Propel, sent a total of $150,000 to New Mexico and Nevada on Oct. 26. The next day he spent $1.1 million to help Democrats in Arkansas, Michigan, Iowa, Missouri and Pennsylvania.</p>