French Montana Explains Arrest During 2014 Super Bowl Weekend

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The mystery behind French Montana’s arrest during Super Bowl Weekend in New York has finally been solved.

The Coke Boy leader, along with Chinx Drugz and Jadakiss, was placed in handcuffs while leaving Funkmaster Flex’s pre-Super Bowl Tunnel “Revival” party at BB King Blues club in Times Square early Feb. 1.

The ‘Ain’t Worried About Nothin’ rapper told TMZ that police were out to give him a “reality check” and busted him for a 5-year-old warrant for driving on a suspended license. He was later released and performed at Diddy’s Super Bowl bash with Drake at Time Warner Studios.

“I had to let the people know that no matter where you come from [or] how big you make it they (police) still waiting on me,” he told TMZ.

“I do a party every weekend, this one weekend, they grabbed me,” he added. “F— ‘em.”

Despite his arrest, Montana is in good spirits.

“I’m doing good, I’m doing excellent. I got a good lawyer,” he said.

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Police Arrest Suspect in Large-Scale Web Attack

The suspect, Sven Olaf Kamphuis, was transferred to the Netherlands from Spain on Monday after having been arrested at his home in Barcelona last month, according to the Dutch authorities.

On Wednesday, a judge in Rotterdam ordered that Mr. Kamphuis remain in custody for up to two weeks as a police investigation proceeds, said Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the Dutch national prosecutor’s office.

“He is being held on suspicion of participating in DDoS,” Mr. de Bruin said, referring to distributed denial of service attacks, a criminal offense under Dutch law.

The attacks slowed Internet service globally for several days in April, especially in Russia and other European countries.

The attacks in question, which crested last month, took aim at the Web site of Spamhaus, a group that provides e-mail services and other clients with lists of suspected spammers.

In March, Spamhaus added two concerns run by Mr. Kamphuis — a Web hosting service called CyberBunker and an Internet service provider called CB3ROB — to its blacklist.

Though Mr. Kamphuis has solicited support for action against Spamhaus in postings on Facebook, he has denied participating directly in the attacks.

He has not been charged with any crime.

The Dutch police can hold Mr. Kamphuis for up to two weeks; at that point, with a further court ruling, they could keep him in custody for up to 90 additional days without filing any charges.

U.S. Makes Arrest in Olympus Accounting Scandal

Federal agents arrested a former bank executive in Los Angeles on Thursday in connection with the accounting scandal that erupted last year at Olympus, the Japanese camera and medical equipment maker.

Prosecutors in New York said that the executive, Chan Ming Fon, received more than $10 million from Olympus for assisting in its accounting fraud.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Mr. Chan, 50, was a citizen of Taiwan living in Singapore. He was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, with a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison. His lawyer was not disclosed.

“As alleged, Chan Ming Fon was handsomely paid to play an international shell game with hundreds of millions of dollars of assets in order to allow Olympus to keep a massive accounting fraud going for years,” said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, in a news release.

The authorities did not identify the financial institutions with which Mr. Chan was affiliated.

In February, the Japanese authorities arrested seven people in connection with the accounting missteps at Olympus, including Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the company’s former chairman. Mr. Chan was not among those seven.

The company has admitted that executives set up a scheme to cover up $1.7 billion in losses. The illicit maneuvers came to light after Olympus fired Michael C. Woodford, its British chief executive, in October 2011. Soon after, Mr. Woodford made allegations of accounting misdeeds at Olympus.

The Olympus scandal rocked the Japanese corporate sector. The case is being watched closely to gauge how serious the Japanese authorities will be in their pursuit of white-collar crime. The men arrested in February could each serve up to 10 years if found guilty.

The allegations against Mr. Chan could shed more light on Olympus’s elaborate accounting ruses. The company hid losses sustained in the 1990s, later masking them with inflated acquisitions and payments through shadowy overseas funds.

Mr. Chan was a principal at a fund that received large payments from Olympus, according to the F.B.I. The bureau contends that Mr. Chan told Olympus’s auditors in 2009 that the fund held hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Olympus, in the form of conservative investments like Japanese government bonds. The complaint says, however, that the money had been passed on to an entity controlled by Olympus to pay off a loan.

In the complaint, the F.B.I. said that Mr. Chan “acknowledged that it was wrong to assist Olympus in deceiving its auditor.”

India Police Arrest Student Over Facebook Post

Shaheen Dhada, 21, a medical student who lives on the outskirts of Mumbai, was a bit annoyed. Like most people, she understood what was happening: Mr. Thackeray’s hard-line Shiv Sena party has dominated Mumbai for decades, often using intimidation, violence or vandalism to enforce citywide strikes or bans against certain movies. This time, Shiv Sena wanted a citywide signal of deference and respect for Mr. Thackeray.

Ms. Dhada decided to post a mild message of protest on her Facebook page.

Why, she asked, should an entire city be involuntarily shuttered to mark the death of a politician? Her friend, Renu Srinivasan, 20, read the post and hit “like.”

The post went up on Sunday. Within hours, a Shiv Sena official had complained to the police, who notified Ms. Dhada’s family. Intimidated, she quickly posted an apology and closed her Facebook account, her lawyer said. But by Monday, Ms. Dhada and Ms. Srinivasan had been arrested and charged with engaging in speech that was offensive and hateful — for a post that many experts say was neither.

India is often regarded as one of the world’s most freewheeling democracies, where citizens are forever voicing their opinions or participating in political protests. But the Facebook arrests have spiraled into a national controversy about the limits on free speech, the broad discretion granted to the authorities to curb online commentary and the professionalism of an Indian police force often beholden to political parties.

“We have bad laws when it comes to regulation of speech,” said Pranesh Prakash, policy director of the Center for Internet and Society in Bangalore. “Some types of speech are illegal online even though they are perfectly legal in print or other media.”

For many of Ms. Dhada’s supporters, the case reeks of systemic hypocrisy.

When the police received the complaint from a local Shiv Sena chief on Sunday evening, officers acted rapidly, calling Ms. Dhada’s uncle, a physician, and demanding that his niece apologize. In the complaint, Ms. Dhada’s lawyer said, Shiv Sena declared that the post by Ms. Dhada — a Muslim — had disrespected the Hindu religion as well as Mr. Thackeray, whom Shiv Sena regarded as a Hindu god.

Yet less than an hour after the complaint was filed, Shiv Sena supporters vandalized an orthopedic hospital owned by Ms. Dhada’s uncle, who later filed a police complaint. “A mob of 400 or 500 persons ransacked the hospital,” said Sudhir Gupta, the lawyer for Ms. Dhada. “The police failed to protect the hospital.”

Social media have served as a primary channel of criticism about Ms. Dhada’s arrest, with tens of thousands of comments made on Twitter and Facebook. Much of the criticism voiced online and by legal experts has focused on the Information Technology Act of 2008. The law was overhauled after the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai to grant the government broader powers to combat cybercrime, among other things.

Yet many critics and legal experts argue that politicians, in some cases, are using the broad language to stifle dissent. This month, a man in southern India, writing on Twitter, suggested that the son of India’s finance minister had amassed huge wealth through corruption. The minister’s son filed a complaint with the local police, who quickly arrested the author of the Twitter comment.

“The law is so broad, it gives unbridled power to the authorities to register a case,” said Pavan Duggal, a lawyer who practices before India’s Supreme Court and specializes in Internet law. “It leaves everything to the subjective discretion of the law enforcement authorities.”

In her Facebook post, Ms. Dhada questioned the public frenzy over Mr. Thackeray’s death and noted that, by comparison, several of the freedom fighters of India’s independence movement have mostly been forgotten.

“With all respect,” she began, according to a transcription in The Hindu, a leading national newspaper, “every day, thousands of people die, but still the world moves on. Just due to one politician died a natural death, everyone just goes bonkers. They should know, we are resilient by force, not by choice. When was the last time, did anyone showed some respect or even a two-minute silence for Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Azad, Sukhdev or any of the people because of whom we are free-living Indians?

“Respect is earned, given, and definitely not forced,” she concluded. “Today, Mumbai shuts down due to fear, not due to respect.”

Mr. Thackeray, who died Saturday at age 86, left a controversial legacy. He once spoke admiringly of Hitler and won power in Mumbai by playing to the grievances of the local Marathi population, while disparaging outsiders. His Shiv Sena cadres were often toughs and roughnecks; an official inquiry blamed Mr. Thackeray and his supporters for provoking riots that broke out in 1992 and led to the deaths of about 1,000 people, most of them Muslims. No official action was ever taken against him.

His funeral rites and public cremation ceremony were attended by tens of thousands of people, including movie stars and some of the country’s leading politicians. While some Indian newspapers carried critical commentaries of Mr. Thackeray’s career, much of the nonstop weekend coverage on India’s television news channels was far tamer, in some cases adulatory. Even former political enemies, perhaps not wishing to speak ill of the dead, offered praise.

As for Ms. Dhada and Ms. Srinivasan, they were released on bail on Monday. The case has stirred so much condemnation that the top police official in Mumbai ordered an investigation into the arrests.

For now, though, the two young women must await their first hearings in court.

Niharika Mandhana, Sruthi Gottipati and Hari Kumar contributed reporting.

Bobby Brown: DUI… arrest #547!!!

Bobby Brown was just arrested for DUI … for the second time this year, TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us, Brown was pulled over around 1AM when police observed the singer driving erratically on an L.A. street.

According to law enforcement sources, officers approached Brown's vehicle and detected a strong odor of alcohol — at which point they asked Brown to get out of his car.

We're told Brown performed a field sobriety test, but didn't do very well — so he was arrested on suspicion of DUI. He's currently being booked.

Brown was previously arrested for DUI in March and sought treatment for alcohol abuse issues over the summer. He also has a DUI conviction on his record from 1996.

Arrest on Fraud Charge in Facebook Case

NEW YORK (AP) — A businessman who claimed in a lawsuit that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg had promised him half ownership in the then-fledgling company when he was still at Harvard was arrested Friday on fraud charges.

Paul Ceglia, 39, was arrested at his Wellsville, N.Y., home on charges of mail and wire fraud after an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. He was scheduled to appear in federal court in Buffalo later in the day.

Authorities said Ceglia doctored, fabricated and destroyed evidence to support the claims in a lawsuit he filed in Buffalo federal court in 2010.

In the lawsuit, Ceglia claimed that he and Zuckerberg in 2003 signed a software development contract that included a provision entitling Ceglia to half ownership of Facebook in exchange for $1,000 in startup money for the budding company.

Investigators said in a release that Ceglia had replaced the first page of the real contract he signed with Zuckerberg with another page that was "doctored to make it appear as though Zuckerberg had agreed to provide Ceglia with an interest in Facebook."

A criminal complaint in the case said a search of Ceglia's computer hard drives uncovered the real April 28, 2003 contract, which Ceglia had emailed to an attorney in March 2004, years before his lawsuit against Facebook and Zuckerberg. Additional evidence included proof that spacing, columns and margins in the fake contract differs from the real contract and copies of actual emails in Harvard's backup tapes, the complaint said. Authorities said Zuckerberg and another of Facebook's founders have said the idea for Facebook did not arise until months after the contract with Ceglia.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Ceglia was seeking a "quick payday based on a blatant forgery."

Bharara said Ceglia's "alleged conduct not only constitutes a massive fraud attempt, but also an attempted corruption of our legal system through the manufacture of false evidence. That is always intolerable. Dressing up a fraud as a lawsuit does not immunize you from prosecution."

In a statement, attorney Orin Snyder praised the prosecution on behalf of Zuckerberg and the Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook. "Ceglia used the federal court system to perpetuate his fraud and will now be held accountable for his criminal scheme," the statement says.

If convicted, Ceglia could face up to 40 years in prison. It was not immediately clear who will represent Ceglia in court. A lawyer who has represented him in his lawsuit did not immediately return a message for comment.

Matt Barnes Apologizes for ‘Fa**ot,’ ‘Pu**y’ Comments During Arrest

Matt Barnes
I'm Sorry for Calling Cop
'Fa**ot,' 'Pu**y

L.A. Clippers star Matt Barnes is apologizing for calling the cop who arrested him a fa**ot and a pu**y.  In case you're really bad at "Wheel of Fortune," one word is derogatory toward gays ... the other toward women. 

Barnes tells TMZ, "I would like to apologize for the unfortunate language I used.  I know that certain words are extremely hurtful." 

Barnes goes on:  "I meant absolutely no disrespect to anyone.  This comment, spoken in the heat of a difficult moment, does not accurately reflect my actual point of view."

As we first reported, Barnes and the cop clearly had beef.  The same officer stopped Barnes twice before and waited nearly 2 hours in a Manhattan Beach, CA parking lot last July for Barnes to leave a restaurant -- then arresting him for driving on a suspended license and resisting arrest (see dash cam video below).

Barnes eventually pled no contest to misdemeanor interfering with a cop and driving while not in possession of a license. He got off with a fine and informal probation.

Barnes tells TMZ, "I hope that any and all offended parties can accept my sincerest apologies."

Fiona Apple — Explains Her Drug Arrest … In Most Bizarre Speech Ever [Video]

Fiona Apple says everyone at the Texas jail where she was booked for possession of marijuana treated her real nice ... everyone except FOUR PEOPLE -- and the singer remembers exactly who they are!!!Apple -- who was popped at the infamous Sierra&...

Megaupload Founder Goes From Arrest to Cult Hero

He asked whether “you guys just drive around in modified electric vehicles and pose for photos,” referring to an image Mr. Dotcom, 38, had just posted showing three of his associates with golf buggies and a Segway. “I could live like that,” Mr. Gracewood wrote.

Twenty minutes later he got a surprising response: “Come over now!” So he took a friend and went to the most expensive house in the country — a mansion worth 30 million New Zealand dollars, or $24 million, rented by Mr. Dotcom, a German citizen — for a swim and some cupcakes. Twitter users across New Zealand watched with fascination as the group posted updates and photos of the visit.

That evening, which was followed on Twitter under #swimatkims , was just the latest in a series of at times bizarre developments in a case that has turned Mr. Dotcom into something of a cult hero since his arrest.

In January, two police helicopters landed on his lawn to raid the property just north of Auckland. At that time, most of the country had never heard of Mr. Dotcom, despite his flamboyance and wealth. He had kept a low profile in the two years he had been living in this country of about 4.4 million people.

The police operation — carried out under New Zealand’s extradition treaty with the United States — seemed designed to attract attention. It was accompanied by uncharacteristically detailed news releases describing the operation, including how officers had cut their way into a panic room to arrest Mr. Dotcom, who, they said, was found sitting near a shotgun.

Mr. Dotcom — born Kim Schmitz and also known as Kimble and Kim Tim Jim Vestor — and three others connected with Megaupload were arrested in connection with U.S. indictments on charges involving copyright infringement and money laundering. At the time, the U.S. Department of Justice said that in all, seven people had been arrested around the world in connection with an investigation into online piracy of numerous copyrighted works, including music and films.

The Justice Department said the individuals and two companies — Megaupload and Vestor — had been charged with “engaging in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit copyright infringement, conspiring to commit money laundering and two substantive counts of criminal copyright infringement.”

This month, Mr. Dotcom’s U.S. lawyers are set to appear before a Virginia judge in a bid to have the criminal case against the company dismissed. According to a document on his lawyers’ Web site, they will argue, among other points, that the indictments are invalid because they must be submitted to a company’s U.S. office, which Megaupload has never had.

Even if it is successful, the case against Mr. Dotcom and the other defendants would proceed.

The four men arrested in New Zealand are still free on bail, awaiting an extradition hearing, which is scheduled to begin Aug. 6.

Mr. Dotcom has had other brushes with the law. He was convicted of insider trading in Germany in 2002 in what was at the time the largest such case.

Among the items seized by the police in the January raids were 18 luxury vehicles worth 6 million dollars — including a Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe and a 1959 pink Cadillac — computers and as much as 11 million dollars in cash.

Mr. Dotcom said in an e-mail interview that he had been treated badly by the New Zealand police and the government, which he said he believed was simply kowtowing to U.S. requests.

“Two helicopters and 76 heavily armed officers to arrest a man alleged of copyright crimes — think about that,” he wrote. “Hollywood is importing their movie scripts into the real world and sends armed forces to protect their outdated business model.”

In February, the New Zealand police defended the operation, saying it had been in line with a risk assessment and there had been only “20 or 30” officers involved in the raid on the mansion.

After a month of prison, Mr. Dotcom was eventually granted bail, despite prosecutors’ arguments that he was a serious flight risk. Over the following months his lawyers won a series of hearings to loosen the bail conditions and free up some of his confiscated cash to cover expenses.

The biggest victory came last Thursday, when a High Court judge ruled the New Zealand police had used the wrong type of search warrant, so the entire raid had been illegal. Mr. Dotcom’s lawyers are due back in the Auckland High Court on Wednesday, seeking the return of seized assets and data.

Gavin Ellis, a senior political studies lecturer at the University of Auckland, said that over time the public had become less supportive of the police operation.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: July 3, 2012

An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect value for the house that Kim Dotcom rents in New Zealand. It is $24 million, not $30.7 million.