When a postal worker in Washington, D.C., had to serve on a jury in an extended federal trial, the government paid him his usual salary. But there were days that…
A once-mighty partner at the nation’s biggest and best-known plaintiffs securities firm was given a two-year federal prison sentence today for his role in an alleged law firm scheme to…
An alleged child-care scam managed in part by a prison inmate, with the help of his wife, who works as a California government employee, reportedly has resulted in charges against…
A disbarred New York attorney has reportedly pleaded guilty in the middle of a trial to assuming his deceased father’s identity and misrepresenting himself as a lawyer, in order to…
Jerome Kerviel’s career in the securities industry appears to be at an end after the stunning news late last month that the junior trader allegedly cost one of France’s biggest…
Disbarred and facing a prison sentence, a once-prominent member of Palm Beach County’s political structure still had a significant team of well-wishers in his corner as he was sentenced today…
Once a record rogue trader fraud of $7 billion is announced by a major bank, a high-profile new representation is clearly on the horizon for some lucky law firm.
More than 100 federal agents raided four Southern California museums and a Los Angeles art gallery this morning after a five-year investigation of an alleged foreign art-smuggling scheme.
Updated: An all-time record $7 billion fraud allegedly perpetrated on a renowned French bank by a rogue junior trader has left the Societe Generale reeling.
The downfall of disbarred Charleston, W.Va.., lawyer Leonard Coleman, sentenced yesterday to almost three years in prison for embezzlement, is like a Greek tragedy, according to his defense lawyer.
A Mississippi attorney has been sentenced by a federal judge to 6.5 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution for pursuing baseless diet drug litigation on…
Clients of a disbarred Florida lawyer who pleaded no contest today to stealing some $200,000 from them are reportedly likely to seek leniency for the man they thought was representing…
Oops. Somebody apparently got their wires crossed at a business telecommunications firm in an upscale area of northern New Jersey. After offering Anthony Armatys a job in 2002, which he…
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