A lawyer who was an executive at Bank One has been charged with selling abusive tax shelters to clients of his employer and the now-defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist.
Mark Cuban, a billionaire Internet entrepreneur who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has been charged by the SEC in a civil case with insider trading.
A high-profile lawyer convicted of conspiring with a private investigator to wiretap their clients’ opponents in celebrity litigation should be sentenced to spend 10 months in his Beverly…
A senior private banking executive with UBS AG has been indicted in a federal tax fraud conspiracy case after months of investigation of how some U.S. residents allegedly dodged their…
Richard Brown never seemed like a great candidate for a physician’s license. A lackluster student in high school and college, he attended several foreign institutions before getting a medical degree.
A former Ohio lawyer who voluntarily resigned from the state bar earlier this year has pleaded guilty to aggravated theft in connection with admittedly stealing $624,000 from her former clients…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who has filed high-profile lawsuits against police departments has been charged with laundering money that had belonged to a drug dealer before his shooting death.
Eliot Spitzer, whose law-and-order image was tarnished earlier this year when his reported use of high-class prostitutes made international headlines, won’t be federally prosecuted.
Taxpayers would likely have to pay the legal bills of former executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if they are sued by dissatisfied shareholders or the federal government decides…
A retired U.S. Navy commander has been criminally charged with allegedly faking a serious injury from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
A well-known Chicago attorney who is a former longtime city alderman has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud. The case, which involves a claimed kickback paid to put…
A New Orleans gaming lawyer who until recently was contending that his former law firm concocted theft allegations against him pleaded guilty today to charges that he bilked the firm…
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