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LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Missing Madeleine McCann’s parents prayed at Portugal’s holiest site while Police re-interviewed two witnesses connected with their main suspect, The Independent reports. The witnesses were Michaela Walczuch, the German lover of the British suspect Robert Murat, and her estranged husband Luis Antonio, a pool cleaner who has worked

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The former assistant director of accounting at the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges of embezzling Red Cross funds over the course of the more than 17 years she worked at the non-profit organization. Karen Shuerger, 58, who resided

SAN DIEGO, May 23 LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire — Trovillion, Inveiss & Demakis has announced the formation of a new law firm partnership serving the Southern Californian counties of San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial. Daniel Trovillion, Andris Inveiss, Nicole Demakis, and Julie Shaw are the senior partners at

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Reuters report that a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday that accounting firm KPMG will not have to face a trial over who should pay the legal fees for 16 former partners charged with selling illegal tax shelters. The decision reverses an order by U.S. District Judge Lewis

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – A Pasadena man who owned several markets in the “skid row” area of downtown Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal Food Stamp Program out of more than $6 million by purchasing benefits for 50 cents on the dollar. Tigran Malkhasyan, 42, pleaded guilty to five

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – British law firm Hammonds has won a victory for Chelsea Football Club against disgraced Romanian striker Adrian Mutu, who could be ordered to pay the club as much as £15m in compensation, ‘The Lawyer’ reports today. The Romanian national team member, now with Fiorentina, was ordered to pay

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The New York Times reports that federal prosecutors said yesterday that they would not file criminal charges against Sidley Austin, one of the largest law firms in the nation, over its work with questionable tax shelters that helped wealthy investors evade billions of dollars in taxes. The decision

Washington, D.C., May 23, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled administrative charges against Hewlett-Packard Company for failing to disclose the reasons for a director’s abrupt resignation in the midst of HP’s controversial investigation into boardroom leaks. The Commission found that several months before the

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – Washington D.C., May 23, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today the filing and settlement of charges that The BISYS Group, Inc., a leading provider of financial products and support services, violated the financial reporting, books-and-records, and internal control provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.