The former general counsel of a Houston life settlement company has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for aiding a corporate scheme that defrauded investors of $100…
Life means life in Florida, and John Curtis Ivey, sentenced to a life term at age 22 for an armed robbery in which he pistol-whipped the victim, has served 19…
A former assistant Los Angeles public defender who was criminally convicted in 1998 of sex offenses concerning a 16-year-old he met when she was a client of the PD’s office,…
A 15-year-old United States citizen who admittedly killed four people by slitting their throats has been convicted in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading four people and kidnapping another…
A Los Angeles County, Calif., assistant district attorney has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit against her that stemmed from a car crash involving two women and…
A former law dean at Kaplan Inc. has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for sending threatening messages concerning the online educational institution and its…
Updated: Scheduled to be in federal court in East St. Louis for sentencing today at 9 a.m. in a mail fraud case, an Illinois attorney sent his lawyer a fax…
Freed from a Florida jail over the weekend after completing, with credit for time served and good behavior, her four-year term for providing false information about her…
Attorney Matt Kostolnik wound up with a seeming MySpace page featuring teens having sex and was visited at work by the Secret Service after the Minneapolis lawyer moved next door…
A friend of a defendant being sentenced for his role in a Michigan gas station armed robbery had come to court expecting to see his 18-year-old buddy, Terrez Rashad Ivy,…
A former office manager allegedly forced a Morristown, N.J., area law firm to lay off associates and staff by taking more than $1 million between 2003 and the beginning of…
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