A Virginia-based military vehicle manufacturer isn’t admitting any wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay a $55,000 settlement to a morbidly obese materials handler fired from his $21-an-hour job at a…
A federal judge in Brownsville has refused to dismiss a racketeering conspiracy case against a sitting district attorney and a lawyer accused of involvement in a judicial bribery scheme.
A South Texas judge acquitted on all counts in a criminal bribery trial last year apparently is not complaining about her representation by defense lawyers Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds…
More details are emerging in an ongoing judicial corruption case in federal court in South Texas that federal authorities say involved, in addition to other alleged misconduct by multiple defendants,…
A federal appeals court has upheld a sanction of nearly $30,000 against a plaintiff’s firm in a products liability case for accidentally distributing material it was required to keep secret…
Defiant to the end, onetime Texas billionaire financier R. Allen Stanford blamed the feds for what prosecutors have portrayed as a $5.9 billion to $7 billion swindle of investors and…
In a brief ruling (PDF) Thursday, a federal appeals court gave short shrift to an effort by a self-described vampire high priest to pursue an in forma pauperis…
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors showed a Brownsville, Texas, jury a $5,000 check written in 2008 by attorney Ray Marchan to the wife of Abel Limas, who was then a state…
A federal prosecutor says a former South Texas judge who has taken a plea in a bribery case could testify as early as Wednesday afternoon against a lawyer accused of…
In opening arguments on Tuesday, the feds outlined their case against a lawyer accused in a racketeering case of paying a South Texas judge some $11,000 in bribes.
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