Updated: “Hundreds and hundreds” of New York lawyers will be implicated in a statewide scheme in which non-employees have improperly been enrolled in the public pension system, the state attorney…
For some lawyers at one Albany, N.Y., area law firm, getting a public pension for a no-show school district job was a standard “perk of partnership,” a state prosecutor said…
Updated: A New York law firm at which 12 attorneys reportedly have been under investigation in an ongoing statewide probe of school district pension payments to lawyers is now in…
Federal prosecutors in at least five major cities throughout the country are reving up for a more expansive investigation of possible widespread fraudulent practices by mortgage lenders and investment banks.
Updated: The Republican leader of the U.S. House of Representatives is asking the House Judiciary Committee to launch an investigation into whether it is common practice, as a convicted attorney…
The former president and chief operating officer of Monster Worldwide has been charged with securities fraud and conspiracy for alleged backdating violations.
The indictment claims the executive, James Treacy, conspired…
Sources tell Legal Times that last week’s guilty plea by a former Justice Department official doesn’t end the investigation of DOJ ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Republican heavyweights allegedly tried to use their influence with the White House to get U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald removed from office as he was pursuing a politically charged case against…
A former Justice Department higher-up, Robert E. Coughlin II, pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting thousands of dollars worth of meals and tickets from disgraces lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for…
The big-name plaintiffs lawyer Jeffry Fieger has called in a couple of other recognizable legal eagles to help defend himself against allegations that he and a partner illegally contributed $127,000…
Prosecutors claim Milberg Weiss and its lawyers pocketed $251 million in attorney fees that were tainted by kickbacks paid to lead plaintiffs in securities cases. But so far the government…
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