In what city leaders describe as a first-of-its-kind judgment under a new state law that permits civil lawsuits to seek damages concerning claimed gang activities, Los Angeles has been awarded…
A cell phone video of the fatal shooting of apparently unresisting black man by a white transit police office in Oakland, Calif., has put the local district attorney on the…
The judge who refused to revoke bail for accused financier Bernard Madoff on Monday wasn’t swayed by the political firestorm—and that’s typical of his personality, according to those who know…
Yet another reason to be wary about interacting with unknown individuals on the Internet: A growing number of police departments and prosecutors are finding social networking sites a treasure trove…
David Stockman’s lead defense lawyer claims the government made a mistake by relying on an internal corporate investigation by Davis Polk & Wardwell to bring criminal charges against his client.
Uh-oh. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald accidentally e-mailed to journalists yesterday a copy of a federal criminal complaint that also included a one-page list identifying almost 20 confidential…
Concerned about a limited government budget that could require staff layoffs, an Ohio prosecutor has taken a pay cut—and a part-time job practicing law—to help his office make ends meet.
A federal appeals court opinion ordering a new sentence for former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling gives his lawyers another chance to argue for a new trial.
A Florida judge has disqualified the entire Broward State Attorney’s Office from trying a murder case after learning that two prosecutors had listened to recordings of the jailed defendant’s phone…
For nine years, Harry Markopolos tried to persuade the SEC that Bernard Madoff must be running an investment scam, contending that the strategy he claimed to be using didn’t match…
An FBI agent turned whistleblower complained to federal authorities shortly after Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted in October that investigators handling the case withheld and altered evidence, and engaged…
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey would get a 43 percent pay raise totaling more than $60,000 over the next four years under a proposal being considered by the city council.
In a scathing multi-agency investigative report (PDF) released today by Ohio’s inspector general, former state attorney general Marc Dann is accused of personally participating in “rude, vulgar and…
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