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Bishop with a Penchant for Antique Books Is One of Two Lawyers Charged in $52M Ponzi Scheme

Two suburban lawyers, one of them an ordained American Anglican bishop, have been charged in a $52 million Ponzi scheme involving high-interest loans made by U.S. investors for U.K. borrowers. The priest, 62-year-old Martin Sigillito of suburban St. Louis, Mo., is charged along with a suburban Kansas City, Mo., lawyer,…

May 5, 2011 11:46 AM CDT

Attorney Hopes to Publicize Her Law Firm by Dancing with ‘Incredibly Talented’ Ballet Star

It could be embarrassing, a Missouri criminal defense attorney admits. But Jennifer Bukowsky is hoping to gain a higher profile for her law firm by participating in Dancing with Missouri Stars later this week. “In my business, I am the product. I have to seize opportunities to get the word…

May 2, 2011 7:47 PM CDT

Mike Tyson’s Tattoo Artist Sues Warner Bros., Says Studio Pirated Copy on Actor’s Face in New Movie

The artist who created an unusual tattoo on the left side of prizefighter Mike Tyson’s face has sued Warner Bros., contending that the studio pirated its work by putting the same tattoo on the face of an actor in its new movie The Hangover 2. S. Victor Whitmill says in…

Apr 29, 2011 11:44 PM CDT

Missouri Files Amicus Supporting States’ Challenge of Federal Health Care Law

Missouri today filed an amicus brief supporting states challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care law, according to the Associated Press. Florida and 25 other states filed the lawsuit, which is on appeal in the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In January, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson…

Apr 11, 2011 8:38 PM CDT

Prosecutors and Judges to Join Police at DWI Checkpoints to Enforce New ‘No Refusal’ Law

In what is billed as a first-of-a-kind law enforcement effort in Jasper County, Mo., prosecutors and judges will be joining police at drunken-driving checkpoints, starting tonight, to enforce a new “no refusal” statute in the state. If motorists who seem to be driving while intoxicated refuse to take a breath…

Apr 1, 2011 10:21 PM CDT

Law Firm Is Victimized by Man Pretending to Be an Attorney There

A man with a record of 15 felony convictions somehow managed to get access both to an unidentified St. Louis law firm’s trust account and the “credit and financial accounts” of Washington University and its alumni Allen Dean Ritchie, 42, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal identity theft charge and…

Mar 25, 2011 4:07 PM CDT

KC Royals Not Liable for Injuries Caused by Errant Hot Dog Toss, Jury Finds

A Kansas City Royals fan has lost his lawsuit that claims he suffered a detached retina when he was hit by a flying, foil-wrapped hot dog tossed by the team’s lion mascot, Sluggerrr. Jurors deliberated for slightly more than an hour before finding the team not liable for injuries suffered…

Mar 10, 2011 1:04 PM CST

Mo. Man Gets 14-Year Sentence for Profanity-Laced Taunts on Judge’s Answering Machine

A Missouri man’s holiday greetings, left on a judge’s answering machine, have resulted in a 14-year prison sentence. Allen Hause of Hartsburg was sentenced Tuesday after a jury convicted him on two counts of tampering with a judicial officer, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports. The five phone calls, made on…

Mar 3, 2011 6:38 PM CST

Lawyer Takes 5th re Bombing at Law Firm Partners’ Home, But Protective Order is Denied

In 2006, a partner of Boggs Boggs & Bates was found shot to death at his desk in the law firm’s offices in an upscale St. Louis suburb. His murder remains unsolved despite a $50,000 reward offer. Then last year, two pipe bombs went off outside the St. Louis home…

Jan 27, 2011 11:43 PM CST

Mo. High Court Upholds $2M Award for Prosecutor Who Claimed Reverse Bias in Judicial Appointment

The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld an award of more than $2 million for a prosecutor who claimed she didn’t get a judicial appointment because of reverse bias by the Kansas City Council. Melissa Howard, who is white, had contended she didn’t get a municipal judgeship in 2006 because the…

Jan 26, 2011 1:25 PM CST

Reprimand Recommended for Lawyer Who Sent Note to Judge Advising Him to Convict

A Missouri disciplinary panel is recommending a reprimand for a St. Louis-area prosecutor who admitted passing a note to a judge hearing a case in another courtroom. The lawyer, Keith K. Cheung, admitted he asked a bailiff to hand-deliver the note to a judge hearing a case against a police…

Jan 25, 2011 4:14 PM CST

As Lawmaker’s Facebook Page Is Hacked, Blogger Warns: Beware the ‘Random Angry Dweeb’

A new state lawmaker in Missouri has reportedly been trumpeted to the world as a friend of lobbyists who loves the “awesome” freebies her job provides. But of course she didn’t provide that update on her Facebook page yesterday, says Rep. Donna Lichtenegger, a Republican, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.…

Jan 21, 2011 6:45 PM CST

DEA Seeks Forfeiture of Campground Because of Drug Use at Concerts

For four years, criminal investigators have attended concerts at a Missouri campground owned by a member of a Grateful Dead tribute band, but they weren’t there for the music. According to a complaint filed in federal court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the investigators witnessed drug use and bought…

Nov 15, 2010 3:22 PM CST

Police Search Home of St. Louis Lawyer, Won’t Say If It’s Related to Law Firm Mystery

Police won’t say whether a search of a lawyer’s home is related to a new pipe-bomb mystery involving a St. Louis-area law firm. The lawyer, Mark Bates, had worked for the suburban St. Louis law firm known as Boggs, Boggs & Bates before he left in April 2008, according to…

Oct 26, 2010 1:23 PM CDT

Law Firm Accused of Planting a Spy and Turning a Lawyer Against His Client

A lawsuit accuses a law firm representing the Archdiocese of St. Louis of getting the secretary for a rebel Catholic parish to act as a spy and manipulating the parish’s one-time lawyer to turn against his client. The suit claims Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale and the lawyer, Roger Krasnicki, “violated…

Oct 21, 2010 12:11 PM CDT

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