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LawFuel – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Investigations, Miami Field Office, Lee Huttenbach, Special in Charge, Southeast Region, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of Inspector General, Samuel Santiago, Supervisory

CORTEZ TAXIDERMIST SENTENCED FOR LACEY ACT VIOLATIONS DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Paul Ray Weyand, age 37, of Cortez, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Walker D. Miller to serve 3 years probation, with the first 6 months in home detention, for violations of the Lacey Act, United States Attorney Troy Eid announced. Weyand,

Washington, D.C., Dec. 31, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Peter S. Kiernan, Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, is retiring from public service after more than 40 years working at the agency where he was a key liaison between the Commission and the Congress. “Peter’s

Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today delivered a report to Congress mandated by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that recommends against the suspension of fair value accounting standards. Rather, the 211-page report by the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant and Division of Corporation Finance recommends

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Rigoberto Aramburo-Lizzaraga, 25; Juan Andres Ramirez-Aguirre, 34; Franki Alfonso Garcia-Sustaita 31; and, Santiago Casteneda-Aramburo 18, all of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty to Using, Carrying and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence (Hostage Taking) in a Federal District Court in Phoenix. All the defendants pleaded over

December 30, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to burn injury lawyers in Los Angeles, authorities the man they have arrested allegedly in connection with the Orange County fires has been identified as Matthew Deason age 29 and resident of Laguna Hills. According to reports by Orange County Fire Department Capt. Greg McKeown, Deason allegedly started

FindLaw, the most-visited legal Web site, http://www.findlaw.com, has released its Top Ten Legal Predictions for 2009 at: http://news.findlaw.com/features/2009top10.html, a forecast of legal hot topics that include urban living, employee rights, “green” laws, military rights and legal issues impacting small business. FindLaw provides expert commentary and analysis and aggregates key articles from leading news publications, legal

Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency court order to halt an alleged Ponzi scheme and affinity fraud that collected more than $23 million from thousands of investors in the Haitian-American community nationwide through a network of purported investment clubs. The SEC alleges that Creative Capital

Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Susan G. Markel, Chief Accountant for the Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency in January to become a Managing Director in the Corporate Investigations practice of AlixPartners LLP, a global business advisory firm. “For more than 14 years, Susan