They’re reportedly the worst of the worst in Los Angeles County, owing between $63,000 and $427,000 in unpaid child support concerning a total of 17 children.
Lawyers for four Kuwaitis being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say government prosecutors are violating standard legal ethics rules by contacting defendants whom they know…
Updated: Boyd Johnson III is known as a likable guy with a self-deprecating sense of humor, but don’t mistake his demeanor for laziness. He’s a determined prosecutor who targeted international…
A Minnesota attorney reportedly is livid after Becker County officials admitted that they have been recording his telephone calls with an incarcerated client.
Updated: Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz contends that federal money laundering and sex-crime laws have been unfairly used to trap Eliot Spitzer in an unfortunate episode that shows the…
Updated: As the day progressed, it appeared that embattled New York Governor Eliot Spitzer might not resign from office as quickly as some have predicted, despite allegations that he may…
Updated: A former top aide to embattled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, back in the day when he was state attorney general, now reportedly has a new job as Spitzer’s…
Updated: The investigation that led to this week’s shocking revelations about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, the respected former state attorney general who reportedly linked up with a high-priced prostitute,…
Updated: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer made a statement today acknowledging that he had violated his obligations to his family without saying specifically whether he was associated with an alleged…
A 24-year veteran district attorney in northeast Georgia was sentenced today to a six-year prison term for payroll fraud in which two other Piedmont Judicial Circuit employees, including his wife,…
A county district attorney in Utah has reportedly fired a veteran prosecutor who was an opposing candidate in the primary of her 2006 election campaign.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is reportedly only one of nearly a dozen area lawyers whose conduct concerning a police whistle-blower case is mushrooming into a major scandal.
A year after several young women allegedly witnessed the rape of a 17-year-old girl by a De Anza College basketball player at a team party, as other team members watched,…
The president of the American Bar Association has written the president of the United States, expressing concern that six terrorism suspects detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay…
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