As officials in Illinois struggle to cope with an unusual situation following the arrest of Gov. Rod Blagojevich in a federal political corruption case yesterday, the state’s attorney general is…
Accused of participating in a $597 million fraud to deceive shareholders of American International Group Inc. into thinking the insurance giant had $500 million more in loss reserves than it…
Updated: When Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared in court on political corruption charges Tuesday afternoon, he was accompanied by a little-known Chicago criminal defense lawyer.
In a stunning day for those who follow Illinois politics, the state’s governor was arrested at his home in Chicago today and charged in a political corruption case.
In an era of high-tech fraud, the founder of the Dreier law firm is accused of doing it the old-fashioned way. Using little more than his position and…
A Florida attorney who worked as a title agent has been convicted by a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale of preparing real estate closing documents that helped another man defraud…
A former career FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., today to illegally accessing information in the agency’s computers and passing it on, via actress Linda Fiorentino,…
The founder of the not quite 250-attorney Dreier law firm was charged today by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with securities and wire fraud, in connection with what an Securities and…
Prosecutors have declined to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that threw out 13 indictments because the government pressured the defendants’ employer to stop paying their legal…
A major Muslim charitable organization and five of its former leaders were convicted by a federal court jury in Texas today of aiding terrorism via their charitable contributions.
Rejecting a suggestion by a probation officer that Terry Christensen should be confined in his Beverly Hills home, a federal judge in California today sentenced the high-profile Los Angeles lawyer…
Although the IRS lacks the resources to go after all of the estimated 20,000 U.S. residents who reportedly may have set up secret accounts at UBS AG in order to…
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