A Washington state defense lawyer has lost her law license over phone calls between a housemate and two inmates, using the attorney’s free legal phone privileges.
A former court clerk was sentenced by an Iowa judge to a 10-year prison term after entering a no-contest plea to four counts of first-degree theft in the middle of…
John J. O’Brien told a federal judge in Manhattan today that he never expected to get away with failing to pay $2.5 million in tax on $10.8 million in income…
A longtime Virginia lawyer was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for embezzling $1 million from a Bank of America subsidiary, despite his cooperation with the government and sentencing…
Updated: A lawyer in Washington state has filed a motion seeking to overturn his client’s burglary conviction because the jury verdict form named a different defendant.
A lawyer convicted of a felony often loses his or her law license. But a former governor and attorney general of North Carolina had his suspended for two years after…
Convicted by a federal jury in New York in 2009 and sentenced to seven years in a $2.4 billion corporate securities fraud case, a former Mayer Brown partner today won…
Cash bribes totaling at least $1 million and call girls helped him pull off a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a disbarred Florida lawyer said during a 10-day deposition in a…
With $1 billion in state prison operation costs and a doubled inmate population in the past two decades, Georgia is looking toward its fellow Southern states for examples of successful…
Corrected: South Carolina prosecutor Kevin Brackett says he has no doubts about the murder convictions he obtained in 2004 against a South Carolina dad and a convicted ex-con.
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