When attorney Joseph Santo pointed at him in a Brooklyn courtroom, 17-year-old Victor Hernandez says, he didn’t think much about it as he went up to stand beside the lawyer.
Disbarred after he stole $300,000 from his former law firm—and another $200,000 from a subsequent employer, a former New Jersey tax attorney has now admitted that he stole $267,000 from…
Drawing a sharp contrast between the Bush and Obama administrations, without ever naming the former, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the ABA House of Delegates that “we no longer…
A federal judge has rejected a plea deal that calls for 87-month sentences for two Pennsylvania judges who pleaded guilty in an alleged scheme to steer juveniles to for-profit detention…
Anyone who thinks the election of our first African-American president means we no longer have any reason to make amends to minorities in this country ought to read Mark Curriden’s…
In a move that could nearly halve the six-year prison term that former Qwest Communications chief executive Joseph Nacchio got for insider trading, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
A court-appointed trustee charged with recovering money for investors in the Ponzi scheme operated by Bernard Madoff under the guise of a hedge fund has sued the jailed swindler’s wife…
The attorney general of Grenada has resigned over a letter he sent on official letterhead seeking leniency for his stepson from the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney in a Florida criminal case.
More prisoners than ever before were serving life terms in 2008—a total of 140,610 out of 2.3 million inmates, or nearly 1 in 10, according to a report released today…
Before a federal judge could hold a scheduled hearing on Monday, the top court in Pennsylvania has acceded to some of the demands made in an unusual federal filing by…
A bizarre case in which two senior Pennsylvania judges in Luzerne County are accused of having profited from putting hundreds—or perhaps even thousands—of youths into juvenile detention for relatively minor…
Offered a suggested deal in a federal corruption case that would, at one point, have required him to plead guilty to one fraud count in exchange for a prison term…
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