Law Admin

May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Thomas W. Raffanello, Special Agent in Charge, the Drug Enforcement Administration; Brian J. Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation; Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Jim Belz,

May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and William T. Sims, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, announced today that Andres Rojas, of Hialeah Gardens, was convicted after a two-day jury trial of one count of attempted on-line enticement of a child

May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Federal charges have been filed against eight federal prisoners who allegedly took part in a June 2003 riot at the high-security federal penitentiary in Lompoc, California. The riot began when inmates attacked a group of staff members, and the incident escalated into an attempted takeover of one of the

May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Kevin J. O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced today that RAYMOND J. WISNIESKI, age 59, of 93 Cognewaugh Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut; OTTO GUHL, JR., age 57, of 745 High Ridge Road, Stamford, Connecticut, and ROBERT J. WILSON, age 62, of 443 Erwin Street, Trumbull,

27 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A website design vulnerability that theoretically could have allowed third parties to access the personal information of Barnes & Noble.com customers has led to a settlement agreement requiring Barnes & Noble.com to institute an information security program and pay $60,000 worth of costs and penalties to New York State.

May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – In a criminal complaint filed today in federal court in Santa Ana, two men who operate a Fountain Valley immigration consulting firm were charged with submitting false petitions to fraudulently obtain employment-based visas for hundreds of aliens seeking to come to, or stay in, the United States. The complaint

NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas, May 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – UICI (NYSE: UCI – News; the “Company”) today announced that the Company and certain of its current and former executive officers have been named as defendants in a securities class action lawsuit alleging, among other things, that the Company failed to disclose all material facts

May 27, 2004 – LAWFUEL – On Wednesday former Rite Aid chief financial officer Franklyn M. Bergonzi received 28 months in jail and a $5100 fine for his guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit an accounting fraud that falsely inflated the value of Rite Aid stock. The sentence, which is well below

LONDON, May 27, 2004 – LAWFUEL – In one of 2004’s largest refinancings, White & Case acted for the mandated lead arrangers (CSFB, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley) in the provision of £2.45 billion of senior credit facilities to NTL Investment Holdings Limited, the UK subsidiary of NTL Inc. The credit facilities, coupled

28 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – $110 million paid by Artemis S.A. in a settlement with the United States Attorney’s Office in connection with the Credit Lyonnais criminal case has been transferred to the California Insurance Commissioner, United States Attorney Debra Yang announced. The funds are earmarked for distribution to claimants in the rehabilitation proceeding