A Bahamas court has rejected a U.S. bid to extradite a Czech-born financier on charges of plotting to bribe officials in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in the late 1990s to get favorable treatment in oil deals, officials said Wednesday. The Bahamas Court of Appeal ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American businessman and friend of U.S. diplomat George Mitchell was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy to defraud the United States in an Azerbaijan oil venture bribery case. Frederic Bourke, co-founder of handbag maker Dooney & Bourke, was found guilty by a Manhattan federal court jury of breaking the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - George Mitchell, President Barack Obama's envoy to the Middle East, testified on Friday that he paid little attention to a $200,000 investment he made in 1998 through a businessman friend who is now on trial over a scheme to bribe officials in Azerbaijan. Mitchell, a former U.S. Senator known also for brokering a peace ...