A former senior federal judge was sentenced today to 30 days in prison and 400 hours of community service after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting a felon in the…
During the 1980s, a young attorney named Mark Roy Anderson reportedly got some $50 million from around 2,000 investors to fund a business of purchasing, fixing up and selling National…
A former assistant state attorney general who at one time was the top drug prosecutor in Maine was sentenced today to a 16-year federal prison term in a child pornography…
Apparently seeking money to which she was not entitled, a former partner of McGuireWoods admittedly provided a phony Internal Revenue Service document to the firm’s general counsel in February 2010.
A former Kentucky judge has been sentenced to over 26 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy among public officials to gain power and control by corrupting…
With Gov. Pat Quinn’s signature today, a bill banning the death penalty in Illinois is now official. The legislation will take effect July 1, Reuters reports.
When John Edward Dawson told his lawyer in a state court burglary and drug case that he was also being represented by a federal defender, she thought he was delusional…
Former senior federal judge Jack Camp should be treated “like every other similarly situated criminal” and sentenced to prison time, federal prosecutors say in a sentencing memo concerning his guilty…
Attorney Diana Minella never intended to scam her clients, her lawyer says. But, due to bad business practices, she wound up being accused of taking money from 170 of them…
A 78-year-old Louisiana prisoner who pleaded guilty to child molestation in 1999 was surgically castrated on Thursday. Next week he is scheduled to be freed on parole.
Convicted by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts that he faced in a bribery case, a former president judge of Luzerne County is now trying…
Adding nearly two years to the sentence recommended by prosecutors, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today sentenced a former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Algeria to 5 and…
A retired chief drug prosecutor in the Detroit area has taken a plea in a controversial perjury case, along with two police officers, leaving only a former Wayne County judge…
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