Russia’s Supreme Court today ordered a new trial for two Chechen brothers and a former police officer who were acquitted on charges they helped in the assassination of investigative journalist…
In a rarely seen legal ritual, the Senate received articles of impeachment from the House of Representatives today for the trial of U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent.
Convicted in a Ponzi scheme of stupendous scope that has reportedly left many of his formerly well-to-do victims virtually penniless, Bernard Madoff could get as much as 150 years in…
For years, the state attorney general’s office in Virginia has distributed letters to former jurors in capital cases, cautioning them against talking to defense lawyers working on appeals.
A disbarred New Jersey lawyer was sentenced to a 15-year prison term today for stealing about $4 million he was supposed to use for real estate closings and gambling it…
James “Jamie” Perdigao didn’t even spend the nearly $30 million he bilked from his law firm and gaming clients there, so it was easy for the former star partner of…
A federal judge in Kentucky ruled today that prosecutors can seize $30 million and three accounts from lawyers convicted of bilking clients in fen-phen settlement.
In a sharp 5-4 split, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning that an individual whose conviction is already final doesn’t have the right to access evidence to do DNA…
After Walter Forbes sold his Connecticut home to his wife of 27 years for $10, federal prosecutors decided they had to do something about his pending uncontested divorce.
A former Florida lawyer has been sentenced to 15 years of probation and an unspecified period of house arrest after pleading guilty to an organized scheme to defraud more than…
A deposition yesterday in a lawsuit filed in an attempt to recover assets from O.J. Simpson to pay a $19.7 million civil wrongful death judgment has reportedly located the “lucky…
Updated: Convicted in 2005 of perjury and fraud for misrepresenting himself as a licensed California attorney, Harold Goldstein was released from federal prison about a month ago.
A lavish jailhouse bar mitzvah complete with catered kosher food and a popular Orthodox singer is attracting the ire of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
It’s an altogether different kind of book deal: A federal judge sentenced a former executive Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. found guilty of giving false information to U.S. regulators to write a…
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