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NEW YORK, December 8, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today that Neil Novikoff has joined the firm as Shareholder in the Corporate & Securities department in the New York office. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Mr. Novikoff was a partner at Willkie, Farr

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Roger Mason, 59, former President of American Bantrust Mortgage Services Corporation (ABM) and currently of Truro, Iowa, and Sheila Johnson, 50, former Treasurer of ABM Services Corporation, of Phoenix, pleaded guilty here to Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud before U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. Mason

PHOENIX –LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Derrick McCreary, 34, of Chandler, Ariz., was sentenced to 38.5 years in prison and John Freeman Hunter, 34, of Los Angeles, Calif. was sentenced to 42 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Martone. Both defendants had been found guilty here by a federal jury

NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 8 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, one of the region’s leading law firms, announces the expansion of its Philadelphia office with the addition of 25 attorneys from Hecker Brown Sherry and Johnson, a prominent Philadelphia civil litigation boutique. This expansion is a

STUART, Fla., Dec. 7 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Today, a large victory for famed attorney Willie Gary and his legal team has taken place in the Don King defamation and false light lawsuit. Judge Jose E. Martinez ruled in favor of the Gary team by granting their motion to remand the

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced that his office has issued subpoenas to three of the nation?s largest cable television companies, in order to obtain copies of documents related to the effort by Comcast and Time Warner to acquire customers now served by competitor Adelphia Communications

8 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy advised Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Munich on the sale of 185 million shares in UniCredito Italiano S.p.A. The shares were sold after selection of the banks in an auction procedure at a price close to market. The proceeds amounted to approximately one

8 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – With Kazakhmys’ entry into the FTSE 100, Linklaters has advised on all four FTSE 100 mining IPOs on the main market of the London Stock Exchange since the late 1990s. Linklaters acted as English and US counsel to CSFB and JPMorgan Cazenove, the joint global

Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that Nancy Morris would become Secretary of the Commission after long-time Secretary Jonathan Katz retires in January. “The Secretary is at the heart of Commission operations,” Chairman Cox said. “The Office of

8 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and David W. Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Criminal Investigations, Miami Field Office, announced that yesterday, defendant Frank Tarsia, 43, of New York City, was convicted on