A defendant reportedly grabbed the hair of a senior narcotics prosecutor, yanked her to the floor and choked her yesterday, in a presentencing attack in a Brooklyn federal courtroom. A…
The former founder of one of the West Coast’s biggest immigration law firms was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for filing fraudulent visa applications.
Some 400 federal court orders reducing inmate sentences have been issued in the first two days since new rules took effect that eliminate a disparity in the penalties for powder…
A Maryland attorney and his legal assistant are facing criminal charges for allegedly submitting falsified paperwork to federal agencies on behalf of asylum clients and coaching them to falsify their…
A retired Pennsylvania judge has been put on probation after pleading no contest to carrying a concealed firearm without a permit during a fray with his father-in-law in November 2006.
A 24-year veteran district attorney in northeast Georgia was sentenced today to a six-year prison term for payroll fraud in which two other Piedmont Judicial Circuit employees, including his wife,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the accounting fraud appeal of Adelphia Communications founder John Rigas and his son, Timothy, the company’s former chief financial officer.
The Virginia Supreme Court has upheld the country’s first felony spam conviction in a 4-3 ruling, holding that the state’s groundbreaking anti-spam law did not violate the First Amendment.
After resigning as Miami’s city attorney earlier this month, at the same time that a misdemeanor plea agreement concerning his office expenses was announced, Jorge Fernandez is reportedly still hoping…
Weighing in on a contested plea bargain in a criminal case over a deadly 2005 explosion at a Texas City refinery owned by petroleum giant BP, the New Orleans-based 5th…
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