A suspended New York lawyer is accused of creating a fictitious Texas law firm and then using his position as legal affairs chief at a Houston company to funnel $9…
In a brief ruling (PDF) Thursday, a federal appeals court gave short shrift to an effort by a self-described vampire high priest to pursue an in forma pauperis…
On Wednesday, federal prosecutors showed a Brownsville, Texas, jury a $5,000 check written in 2008 by attorney Ray Marchan to the wife of Abel Limas, who was then a state…
A federal prosecutor says a former South Texas judge who has taken a plea in a bribery case could testify as early as Wednesday afternoon against a lawyer accused of…
In opening arguments on Tuesday, the feds outlined their case against a lawyer accused in a racketeering case of paying a South Texas judge some $11,000 in bribes.
A Dallas woman has sued a storied Texas-based department store, alleging that Neiman Marcus turned a blind eye as her husband charged $1.4 million to her account— nearly $850,000 in…
A convicted member of the notorious Charles Manson “family” responsible for a spree of 1969 killings in California including the slaying of pregnant actress Sharon Tate says, through his current…
A Texas man who has served almost 13 years of a 20-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a young relative should be resentenced because of false testimony by a prosecution…
Joe Gutheinz retired more than a decade ago from his job as a senior agent for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s office of inspector general.
A Texas municipal judge said he was just trying to help a dysfunctional couple when he agreed to help a husband married to a former co-worker of the judge’s locate…
In a criminal justice saga that reads like a fictional entertainment industry thriller, the feds have acquired a 10 percent ownership stake in an upcoming religious movie biopic penned by…
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