LawFuel.com – LEV L. DASSIN, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; WEYSAN DUN, the Special Agent-in- Charge of the Newark Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”); and JOSEPH M. DEMAREST JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, announced today that ANGELO PRISCO, a
Lawfuel.com – Legal Newswire – SANTA ANA, Calif. – Michael S. Carona, the former sheriff of Orange County, was sentenced today to 66 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a fine of $125,000 after being convicted of witness tampering for attempting to convince a former assistant to lie to and withhold testimony from
The Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into Google’s settlement with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, according to two people briefed on the matter. Lawyers for the Justice Department have been in conversations in recent weeks with various groups opposed to the settlement, including the Internet Archive and Consumer Watchdog.
Washington, D.C., April 28, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Tulsa, Okla.-based attorney Matthew J. Browne with insider trading, alleging that he sold all of the stock he owned in a local energy company on the basis of confidential information that he learned while providing legal services to a client. The
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PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Paul Woodcock, 62, of Glendale, and Milton Guenther, 52, of Surprise, Ariz., were each sentenced on April 27, 2009 to 51 and 18 months respectively by Judge David C. Campbell. David Goldfarb and Richard Ross are scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Campbell on May 4, 2009. The sentences are related to
Former CEO Agrees to Pay $2.45 Million to Settle Fraud Charges Washington, D.C., April 28, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former executives at American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation for engaging in accounting fraud and making false and misleading disclosures to conceal from investors the company’s worsening financial condition in
DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Jason W. Muchow, age 33, of Loveland, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week on charges of mail theft and possession of a machine gun, Acting U.S. Attorney David Gaouette, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Postal Service David
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Washington, D.C., April 27, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro today named James Brigagliano and Daniel M. Gallagher as Co-Acting Directors of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets, replacing Erik R. Sirri, who left the agency on April 24. Brigagliano and Gallagher are currently Deputy Directors of the Division, which
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a Connecticut-based money manager and the hedge funds that he controls, alleging that he forged documents, promised false returns, and misrepresented assets managed by the funds to illicitly raise more than $30
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Washington, D.C., April 27, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order freezing the assets of Newport Beach, Calif.-based financier Danny Pang and his two companies for allegedly defrauding investors of hundreds of millions of dollars by misrepresenting investments in the life insurance policies of senior citizens and in
