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Kazakh exchange students Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, who are friends with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, will be facing obstruction of justice-related charges after failing to get their hearing delayed due to unpreparedness, Reuters said.

Paul Ceglia is set to face charges of falsifying documents with the intention to commit fraud stemming from his civil lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on the former's alleged shares in the social network.

The accounting fraud case against Dewey & LeBoeuf management led by CEO Steven Davis has instances remarkably similar to government lawsuits against shuttered firms Enron and WorldCom, DealBook said.