The Texas lawyer who has been working with R. Allen Stanford since March is on his way out, and a former federal prosecutor at Washington, D.C.-based Patton Boggs will soon…
A Mississippi judge pleaded guilty to a federal obstruction charge and resigned his seat on the bench yesterday, in exchange for a recommended 18-month prison sentence.
A power outage made conditions in the private Texas jail in which he is now housed “intolerable,” eliminating both adequate ventilation and air conditioning, says billionaire R. Allen Stanford in…
Billionaire R. Allen Stanford had hoped to live with his girlfriend in a luxury apartment in Houston, albeit wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, while preparing for his trial on federal…
Siding with the world’s biggest health care company, a federal jury in Texas awarded a record-breaking $1.67 billion today to a Johnson & Johnson unit after five hours of deliberation.
After wrestling with the concept of deliberate indifference, a federal jury in Texas today awarded $5 million to a man wrongfully convicted in a kidnapping and rape case more than…
After the approval of a $500,000 bond that would allow Texas billionaire and accused swindler R. Allen Stanford to be released from prison prior to trial in August, a U.S.…
After the Senate began gearing up yesterday for a historic impeachment trial of an imprisoned U.S. District Court judge, he had apparently already decided to throw in the towel.
A former U.S. attorney who was involved, while still in office, in an unsuccessful criminal prosecution of a Mississippi state court judge, also conspired behind the scenes with attorney disciplinary…
James “Jamie” Perdigao didn’t even spend the nearly $30 million he bilked from his law firm and gaming clients there, so it was easy for the former star partner of…
An effort by U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent to continue collecting his federal paycheck for almost a year after he reports to prison later this month to serve a 33-month…
The federal agency in charge of enforcing anti-discrimination laws has taken up the cause of a Texas strip club waitress allegedly illegally fired due to her age.
Sentenced yesterday to 33 months in federal prison for obstruction of justice in a case related to alleged sexual abuse of courthouse employees, a federal judge was in new trouble…
A federal judge described by his own lawyer as an alcoholic apologized to his family and the court staff today and described himself as “completely broken” before he was May 11, 2009 10:05 PM CDT
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