Acting within days of news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have agreed to plead in a case alleging that they accepted $2.6 million in exchange for jailing juveniles in specific…
A Brooklyn lawyer appointed by New York judges as a guardian overseeing the assets of elderly and incapacitated clients allegedly siphoned away $4 million for his own personal use from…
After taking a pass on the testimony phase of his own impeachment trial before the Illinois state senate this week—and instead discussing his case on national television shows—Gov. Rod Blagojevich…
Public outrage and potential litigation are being sparked by news that two longtime Pennsylvania judges have accepted a plea that includes prison time in a case alleging that they incarcerated…
Legal novelist and lawyer John Grisham says fiction couldn’t improve on newspaper accounts about lawyer Marc Dreier, accused of scamming hedge funds and other sophisticated investors out of $380 million.
A 76-year-old disbarred lawyer who disappeared earlier this month after being accused of having grossly overstated the value of the hedge funds he offered to investors has now turned himself…
As a major Swiss bank is squeezed between the secrecy law of its own country and a threatened U.S. prosecution for helping American citizens hide their assets, the government reportedly…
A California lawyer has withdrawn as counsel in a class action after admitting in court papers that he lost most of the $2.7 million settlement in bad stock trades.
Halliburton has agreed to pay $559 million to settle charges that its former KBR Inc. unit bribed Nigerian officials during the building of a gas plant.
Two judges in Luzerne County, Penn., have reportedly agreed to plead guilty and resign from office in an ongoing federal investigation of $2.6 million that authorities say the judges were…
A national securities watchdog is calling for brokerages that sent clients to Bernard Madoff’s hedge fund to reveal the names of those referred and the fees obtained by doing so.
Local practitioners are still stunned over news earlier this month that two prominent Fort Lauderdale, Fla., lawyers, Michael McNerney and Anthony Livoti Jr., are now defendants in a federal criminal…
Updated: A 50-year-old accountant has been charged with scheming to defraud and grand theft concerning the $1.6 million he allegedly stole from a Florida law firm between 2004 and 2008.
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