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Two Pakistani-born brothers accused in a plot to detonate a bomb in New York City to avenge the deaths of people killed by drone attacks in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges on Thursday in Miami.

The founder of coal company L&L Energy Inc was sentenced to five years in prison Friday for lying to U.S. regulators about who was operating the company and issuing shares to Chinese investors without disclosing the existence of a regulatory probe.

A grand jury indicted Sheldon Silver, the former New York State Assembly speaker and one of the state's most powerful politicians for two decades, on federal corruption charges on Thursday, federal prosecutors said.