Former official NY admits guilt in Hamptons fraud (AP)

RIVERHEAD, NY – a former member of New York, convicted of insurance fraud this year declared guilty in a separate mortgage fraud scheme of several million dollars.

George Guldi (GOOL '-dee) admitted to grand larceny and other charges Friday in a Court of Suffolk County.

In the previous case, prosecutors say he pocketed $853,000 in insurance money after fire 2008 at his home in Westhampton Beach. He was sentenced to 4-12 years in prison.

The last indictment charged him with the creation of fake documents to obtain loans which involves approximately 60 properties, primarily in the Hamptons.

He was promised a sentence of one to three years to run concurrently with his other term of imprisonment. He should be sentenced on 31 August.

Prosecutors say that sought a sentence of up to 25 years.

Guldi served as a County legislator from 1994 until 2003.

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U.S. official met Yemen President Saleh in Riyadh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama top counter-terrorism official, John Brennan, urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh Yemen sign a transition plan on Sunday, will result in the departure of Saleh.

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No evidence to back claims of Mubarak's cancer: official (AFP)

CAIRO (AFP)-there are no "scientific" evidence to support claims by lawyer Hosni Mubarak, who ousted President has cancer, said an official of the Egyptian Health Ministry in statements published Sunday.

Mubarak, who is in custody in a hospital in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, has "a stomach cancer and tumors are growing," his lawyer Farid al-Dib, told AFP on Monday.

"The Ministry of health does not have a single scientific paper saying that Mubarak has cancer", Abdelhamid Abaza, Assistant to the Minister of health, was quoted as saying by the newspaper Al-Ahram and Al-Masry Al-Youm.

"There is no information about the surgery that the former President has undertaken in Germany," he added.

In March 2010, Mubarak traveled to Germany for surgery. Doctors at the time said that he had suffered from chronic cholecystitis calculation-inflammation of the Gall bladder with gall stones and a duodenal polyp.

Mubarak has also had a growth removed from his intestine.

"He should have had a medical follow-up, after that, but has not been done," Mubarak's lawyer said on Monday.

A German medical team, including the surgeon who operated on Mubarak last year, expected in Sharm el-Sheikh later Sunday to examine himself and see if he is suffering from cancer, Al-Masry al-Youm said.

The former President is being held in custody in a hospital in Sharm from suffering from heart problems during interrogation on 13 April, almost a month after 18 days of popular protests forced him to stop.

Mubarak, who turned 83 in may, and his sons, Alaa and Gamal are set to go on trial on 3 August, accused of having ordered the killing of protesters during the uprising of January and February that toppled veteran leader.

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