After stealing more than $1.6 million from at least 46 clients over a six-year period, then-personal injury attorney Steven Bearman reportedly kept working as a Houston lawyer while awaiting trial…
A former Georgia judge and his wife are firing back in a federal prosecution over claimed court corruption in the Alapaha Judicial Circuit, alleging “outrageous government misconduct” in matters related…
Updated: A former defense lawyer for beleagered Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who himself is an attorney, has sued over an allegedly unpaid legal bill of nearly $80,000.
Citing his cooperation with prosecutors in cases that are still being developed, the U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to reduce by approximately one-half the federal prison time to…
An FBI official foresaw in 2004 that mortgage fraud was a ticking time bomb. But the agency didn’t devote enough resources to protect the nation’s economy from what has proved…
This spring’s trial of a so-called private investigator to the stars, who was accused of wiretapping courtroom opponents of the well-to-do and celebrity clients for whom he worked, was high-profile.
The lawyers seeking to exonerate Joseph P. Collins, a Mayer Brown partner indicted for his role in an alleged financial fraud at failed commodities brokerage Refco, want results of a…
When Candace Rader and Valerie Cooke represented Debra Post in a murder case, they were allegedly paid $320,000 in legal fees through life insurance proceeds and real estate she deeded…
Until a few months ago, Larry Mendte was a television news anchor at CBS 3 in Philadelphia. Today, the ex-anchor was in the news at his former station and throughout…
A retired Massachusetts lawyer was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of possessing stolen goods in a convoluted art theft case that reads like a true-crime paperback.
A Florida lawyer federally charged in an $83 million mortgage loan scheme, although freed on signature bond, can’t travel to New Zealand to judge a cat show.
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