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.
A divided federal appellate court has upheld a $420,000 jury verdict against two lawyers who were found to have withheld critical information from the opposing party in complex asbestos litigation…
In a criminal justice saga that reads like a fictional entertainment industry thriller, the feds have acquired a 10 percent ownership stake in an upcoming religious movie biopic penned by…
Urged to resign as a Texas prosecutor following his federal indictment in an unusual criminal racketeering case that accuses him of bartering prosecutorial discretion for cash, Cameron County’s District Attorney…
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