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Mark Leonard convicted of murder in explosion scheme

A jury found 46-year-old Mark Leonard guilty of all counts against him, including murder and felony murder. Prosecutors alleged Leonard was the mastermind behind the home explosion, plotting with his live-in girlfriend and half-brother to blow up the home for $300,000 in insurance.

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Cuban immigrant gets 6 years for theft of Lilly drugs

A Cuban immigrant was sentenced Wednesday to more than six years in prison for his role in the 2010 heist of a Connecticut warehouse in which the robbers filled a tractor-trailer with more than $50 million worth of Eli Lilly and Co. pharmaceuticals.

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CNBC’s ‘American Greed’ to profile Tim Durham

The show, which airs at 10 p.m. Thursday, follows Durham’s path from his modest roots in Seymour, Indiana, through his quest to become the world’s richest businessman to his arrest and conviction for running a $200 million Ponzi scheme.

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