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LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – KKR Financial raised $ 800 million on its New York Stock Exchange-listed IPO. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Hunton & Williams were both counsel to the issuer on the deal, with O’Melveny & Myers acting for the selling shareholders. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood represented the underwriter group,

9 August – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Skadden is representing Metris Companies Inc. (as co-counsel) in its acquisition by HSBC Finance Corporation. The deal is reportedly valued at approximately US$1.6 billion.

9 August 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Two brothers f rom Rancho Palos Verdes w ere convicted today of federal health care fraud charges for billing two government health insurance programs for drugs their pharmacies never dispensed. Mohammadali Abolahrar, 34, and Reza Abolahrar, 36, w ere found guilty of conspiracy and

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 9 LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Barrack, Rodos & Bacine today issued the following: A class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on behalf of purchasers of the publicly traded securities of Host America Corp. (Nasdaq: CAFE) (“Host America” or the “Company”)

Singapore – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Singapore office of international law firm Clifford Chance advised Titan Chemicals Corp Bhd, Malaysia’s largest producer of olefins and polyolefins, on its US$210.8 million IPO under Rule 144A and Regulation S, with a listing on Bursa Malaysia. This represents the largest Malaysian IPO of the

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Lawrence L. Speer, 69, of Parks, Ariz., was sentenced here on August 8, 2005 to one year of probation by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. Speer was sentenced in relation to charges from a federal indictment filed in March 2004 regarding Federal Income Tax violations and

Washington, D.C., Aug. 9, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Sandra J. Harris, Associate Regional Director and co-head of enforcement for the Commission’s Pacific Regional Office in Los Angeles, will leave the Commission at the end of September to pursue opportunities in the private

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – This week, a large marijuana growing operation is being eradicated in the Coconino National Forest of Arizona by a multi-agency task force made up of local, State and Federal law enforcement. This eradication marks the latest of three separate grow operations eradicated in the same area

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — The following press release is being issued by Steven F. Molo, Counsel for Kenneth Jaeggi. The Government was dealt a significant blow in its efforts to aggressively prosecute white-collar criminal cases when the United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit today

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Roger F. Corliss, age 34, a resident of Seminole, Florida, was sentenced today to a term of 37 months’ imprisonment in United States District Court in Tampa, Florida. Corliss was charged earlier this year in an eleven count indictment charging him with mail fraud arising out of a