A Hollywood, Fla., lawyer was sentenced to three years and 10 months in federal prison for embezzling $1.6 million in loan proceeds, including $1 million in a refinancing of his…
Fined $20,000 for pursuing what a federal judge in Georgia determined to be a frivolous claim that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen and hence unqualified to serve…
A lawsuit seeking $450 million has been filed against an accounting firm that worked with the now-bankrupt South Florida law firm formerly operated by now-convicted Ponzi schemer and ex-attorney Scott…
Junk fees, corner-cutting and an indifference to human misery helped a Florida lawyer make a mint in a high-volume foreclosure practice, reports Mother Jones in an unflattering…
A racketeering lawsuit seeking class action status and, potentially, up to billions of dollars in damages has been filed against a Florida lawyer and his foreclosure-mill law firm. Also named…
A high-volume Florida foreclosure practitioner has been an early adopter of a businesslike model of law practice, in which a back-office company handles much of the litigation preparation work for…
Saying that a federal district judge in Florida had discretion to sentence Wesley Snipes the maximum term, a federal appeals court has upheld the actor’s three consecutive one-year sentences on…
The U.S. Department of Labor sued a Georgia personal injury firm and its former chief executive officer this week, contending that they improperly transferred, lent or used retirement plan assets…
Seven current or former police officers, two real estate closing attorneys and an agent for the FBI are among the defendants federally charged in a claimed South Florida mortgage fraud…
The lawyer for former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is buoyed by a U.S. Supreme Court order Tuesday sending the political corruption case against his client back to a federal appeals…
The former chief operating officer for the now-shuttered Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm has pleaded guilty to a federal money-laundering conspiracy charge and said she helped her ex-boss, now-disbarred attorney…
Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence ex-attorney Scott Rothstein tomorrow to a 40-year prison term for operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme out of his former South Florida…
As the Daily Pulp blog of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports a lawyer’s claim that disgraced ex-attorney Scott Rothstein stole $168 million of his $1.4 billion…
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