A Mississippi attorney who allegedly hasn’t filed a federal tax return since 1994 has avoided a trial in the felony tax evasion case he initially faced by pleading guilty today…
A retired judge in Pennsylvania was convicted today of mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the injuries he claimed to have suffered in a 2001 auto accident.
The former office manager of a law firm in Punta Gorda, Fla., is facing more than 200 charges in connection with at least some of the $1.67 million that an…
Ed Vrdolyak, an attorney and former longtime Chicago alderman, thought he was talking to a friend when he discussed a dubious 2004 real estate deal with fellow attorney Stuart Levine…
A lawyer who was an executive at Bank One has been charged with selling abusive tax shelters to clients of his employer and the now-defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist.
Mark Cuban, a billionaire Internet entrepreneur who owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has been charged by the SEC in a civil case with insider trading.
A high-profile lawyer convicted of conspiring with a private investigator to wiretap their clients’ opponents in celebrity litigation should be sentenced to spend 10 months in his Beverly…
A senior private banking executive with UBS AG has been indicted in a federal tax fraud conspiracy case after months of investigation of how some U.S. residents allegedly dodged their…
Richard Brown never seemed like a great candidate for a physician’s license. A lackluster student in high school and college, he attended several foreign institutions before getting a medical degree.
A former Ohio lawyer who voluntarily resigned from the state bar earlier this year has pleaded guilty to aggravated theft in connection with admittedly stealing $624,000 from her former clients…
A Washington, D.C., lawyer who has filed high-profile lawsuits against police departments has been charged with laundering money that had belonged to a drug dealer before his shooting death.
Eliot Spitzer, whose law-and-order image was tarnished earlier this year when his reported use of high-class prostitutes made international headlines, won’t be federally prosecuted.
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