Testifying yesterday in a co-defendant’s federal mortgage fraud trial in Tampa, Florida attorney John Yanchek admitted that he had repeatedly lied to banks to help his clients get loans that…
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates this morning passed a series of resolutions aimed at improving insurance protection for individuals and companies affected by natural disasters.
There’s a new foreclosure in the United States every 13 seconds. So, doing the math, during the 90-minute program “Foreclosing on the American Dream” at the Feb 13, 2009 9:34 PM CST
A jury reached a verdict yesterday in the trial of two tenants accused of illegally creating extra rooms that doomed two New York firefighters in the so-called Black Sunday blaze…
Lawyers and other “gatekeepers,” such as mortgage and real estate brokers, should be prime targets in upcoming criminal prosecutions of widespread fraud underlying the current economic crisis, officials said at…
Accustomed to accolades earlier in his career, a Florida appeals court judge hit a roadblock after he was accused of helping a longtime friend who is a stripper shield her…
A New Jersey lawyer who was disbarred for misappropriating mortgage settlement funds can’t be criminally convicted for the same conduct, a state appeals court ruled today.
In a hard-fought municipal ordinance case pitting a Michigan man, supported by local environmental groups, against his township’s governing officials, a local judge has weighed in against the flourishing so-called…
A former member of the Suffolk County Legislature says the county’s district attorney seized virtually every file in his Long Island law office this week.
A Sarasota, Fla., lawyer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Tampa to charges that could result in a sentence of eight to 10 years for his role in an…
Back in June, Judson Randall invited Elizabeth and Jessica Sewall to stay in his Safety Harbor, Fla., home when he heard the mother and daughter were down on their luck.
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