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Disbarred South Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein is negotiating a guilty plea with federal prosecutors on charges of orchestrating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme using faked legal settlements, his attorney said Tuesday.
An attorney says Guatemalan authorities have ordered the arrest of two cousins of a prominent lawyer who accused President Alvaro Colom of involvement in his slaying in a video released posthumously.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a bill banning the jailing of people suspected of tax crimes and has fired another senior prison official following the death in custody of a tax lawyer in November.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday took a sterner stance toward the upcoming resentencing of a former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, saying it has "serious doubts" whether her sentence of just over two years in prison was reasonable.
A defunct South Florida law firm run by an attorney now charged with operating a huge Ponzi scheme gave more than $6 million in the past year to charities and nonprofit groups.
A second wrongly convicted man freed by DNA evidence has sued his civil lawyer and an Innocence Project of Texas official in a dispute over attorney fees in DNA exoneration cases.
Florida's governor says he saw no reason to investigate a South Florida lawyer charged with operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme or refuse his political contributions.
A defunct South Florida law firm run by an attorney now charged with operating a huge Ponzi scheme gave more than $6 million in the past year to charities and nonprofit groups.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fired 20 senior prison officials, including the capital's prison chief, following a probe into the death of a jailed lawyer, officials said Friday.
A federal judge is making sure nothing happens to assets seized from a South Florida lawyer charged with operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
The letters are neatly folded and written on soft white paper in a confident, elegant hand. They tell a story of horror in the bowels of the Russian prison system, a saga set against the backdrop of the world of multibillion-dollar investment funds in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
A once high-flying attorney who courted politicians and celebrities was arrested Tuesday on federal racketeering and fraud charges alleging he operated a $1 billion investment scheme involving phony legal settlements.
The Justice Department is dropping all charges against a prominent Florida lawyer in a drug money-laundering case.
A Russian prison official reportedly admitted Thursday that harsh prison conditions are partially to blame for the death last week of a lawyer being held in a Moscow detention center.
A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing Monday.
Promising "you haven't seen the last of me," a 70-year-old disbarred lawyer convicted in a terrorism case surrendered to U.S. marshals Thursday to begin serving her prison term after a New York appeals court upheld her conviction.
A South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme is asking for his own disbarment.
A suspect in the killing of a human rights lawyer and a journalist has confessed to the crime, his lawyer said Friday.
Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme.
Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday.
A prominent and politically connected South Florida attorney was being investigated by his own firm for financial irregularities in an investment business that led his law partner to seek dissolution Monday.
A former lawyer with the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring with a prominent Manhattan lawyer to dupe hedge funds out of tens of millions of dollars.
A deputy assistant attorney general who said he was on his lunch break when an officer found him with a stripper and sex toys in his sport utility vehicle has been fired, his boss said Wednesday.
In a first of its kind ruling, a federal appeals panel has sided with a prominent Miami defense lawyer who was accused of a crime for giving advice to attorneys for an accused Medellin cocaine cartel kingpin.
The defense lawyer for the CBS News producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman is calling the talk-show host "a master at manipulating audiences."
Lawyer Has Terror-Case Track RecordThe lawyer appointed to represent the man accused of attempting to bomb Northwest Flight 253 had prior success helping to defend an alleged terrorist.
Lawyer: Road rage 'product of economy'HARRISON TOWNSHIP – A 35-year-old Harrison man accused of attacking a man with a hammer during a road rage incident Wednesday on Harrison Avenue told his lawyer "he just snapped."
Law firm offers divorce gift vouchersA London law firm has come up with what it calls a "must have" Christmas present for unhappy couples – divorce gift vouchers.
Lawsuit challenges in-state tuition for illegal immigrantsAttorneys for an anti-illegal immigration organization are challenging a Texas state law that allows illegal immigrant students to attend colleges and universities at in-state rates, saying it violates federal law.
Conservative Wants Bigger GovernmentIn the ongoing national debate about the proper size and scope of government, conservatives usually argue that less is more.
Casey Anthony's lawyer argues against death penalty for client A year after the remains of a Florida toddler were discovered, a lawyer for the slain child's mother asked a judge Friday to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against her"
Immigration checks Delhi bribe claimImmigration NZ is investigating a serious allegation of corruption in its New Delhi office, where an officer is said to have demanded a $282,000 bribe to get 47 Indians into New Zealand.
'Caffeine psychosis' may have affected driver, lawyer says The Idaho motorist accused of striking down two pedestrians on the Washington State University campus may be suffering from "caffeine psychosis," his lawyer said.
US lawyer arrested in $1bn Ponzi schemeBernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme wasn't the only one to have duped the rich and famous.
Lawyers for healthcare claim more personal failure in order to boast reformAnother co 2 gas item. Help lawyers, vote for health reform. I get it.
Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views - Yahoo! NewsThe five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
'Dumb blonde' emails not insulting: U.K. boss - thestar.comThe former boss of a Canadian financier said on Tuesday that emails he forwarded to Jordan Wimmer, referring to locking women in the trunk of his car and calling her a "dumb blonde," were meant in jest and weren't demeaning.
Success to many of us can mean anything. For the dynamic and ambitious executive it could mean climbing the greasy pole of corporate achievement and finally sitting pretty at the top.
Great Man, Lawyer and Animal LoverRichard "Dick" Bean passed away quietly in his sleep at La Villa Assisted Living and Memory Care, Sunday afternoon. Bean was born in Roswell in 1918, and practiced law locally for more than 60 years. He was 90 at the time of his passing.
Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human GenesA federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
Man Throws Feces In CourtroomSAN DIEGO—A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.
Fake Lawyer Arrested, Kicked Out Of CourtEyewitness News discovered a man that judges say was pretending to be a lawyer and has been working on real cases inside the Orange County courthouse for months.
Radical SEIU lawyer's NLRB nomination clears Senate committeeIn a 1993 Minnesota Law Review article, written when he was a UCLA professor, he explained that traditional notions of democracy should not apply in union elections.
Defense argues against big award in fatal radio contest caseThe lawyer for Entercom Communication Corp. and its Sacramento subsidiary argued forcefully Wednesday that his clients weren't responsible for Jennifer Lea Strange's death. But he offered jurors a fallback number on damages just in case they disagree with him.
Crack Thugs Sue City Again and Again, City Settles Cop-Abuse Cases for $500KMembers of a brazen Brooklyn crack gang raked in more than $500,000 in taxpayer money by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations, records show.
Trooper's Attorney Under Fire for Possible Conflict of Interest - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |Trooper accused of assaulting second citizen in less than five months uses same attorney that is hired by the state to represent his superior officer...it is speculated by legal analysts that this may have led to a conflict of interest toward corrective measures in his first assa …
ACORN's Prophetic LawyerACORN's lawyer warned ACORN 15 months ago to begin fixing its massive internal problems or face certain catastrophe. ACORN didn't listen. It let the problems fester.
Gitmo delay no surprise to Khadr lawyerThe lawyer for Omar Khadr, the only Western citizen still behind bars at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Saturday he is not surprised at the news the military prison may not close by the deadline set by U.S. President Barack Obama.
Obama: Acorn Who? Mr. Obama took great pains to act as if he barely knew about Acorn. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years.
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