ALBANY, NY (LAWFUEL) – After one of the largest worksite enforcement operations conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, IFCO headquartered in Houston, Texas has agreed to pay $20.7 million dollars in civil forfeitures and penalties over four years, for employing illegal alien workers at its plants. John P. Torres, Acting Assistant Secretary of Homeland
Bernie Madoff is a man of superlative accomplishments, albeit negative ones. He bilked thousands of hedge fund investors in a gargantuan and unprecedented $50 billion Ponzi scheme. He repeatedly evaded review by the SEC, as detailed in this Wall Street Journal article. So persuasive were Madoff’s techniques, that he managed to make all but one
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — The Internal Revenue Service’s next Tax Talk Today program, “Getting Ready for Filing Season 2009 — Individual and Business,” will be Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 2 p.m. This special, 100-minute program will give tax preparers a head start on the 2009 filing season. The extended program will discuss updates to tax forms,
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(LAWFUEL) – Two Darwin residents were charged yesterday afternoon with drug related offences as a result of a joint operation involving the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Customs and Northern Territory Police. A 33-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were charged with importing and possessing a border controlled drug contrary to the Criminal Code Act 995.
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BALTIMORE, MD December 18, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Baltimore-based law firm Ober|Kaler announced today that it has added three new associates. Jackson Brent Boyd, Kyle E. Conklin, and Lisa D. Stevenson joined the firm in September as first-year associates and were formally admitted to practice in Maryland this month. Mr. Boyd practices in Ober|Kaler’s Litigation
Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged seven individuals and two companies involved in an insider trading ring, alleging that Matthew Devlin, a former registered representative at Lehman Brothers, Inc. in New York City, traded on and tipped his clients and friends with confidential, nonpublic information about 13
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Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to require public companies and mutual funds to use interactive data for financial information, which has the potential to increase the speed, accuracy and usability of financial disclosure and eventually reduce costs for investors. With interactive data, all of the facts
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DALLAS/HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is proud to announce that seven partners from the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices are included among the top employment and employee benefits attorneys in the country in the most recent Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition. Dallas partners Ronald M. Gaswirth, Douglas D. Haloftis and Carrie B. Hoffman,
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INDIANAPOLIS (LAWFUEL) — Matthew R. Levy has joined Baker & Daniels LLP as an associate in the firm’s international practice group. Before joining Baker & Daniels, Levy was an associate at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP in Boston and at Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP in Providence, R.I. Levy, who works from Baker
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Voting Rights and Election Law TO BE DISCUSSED Coral Gables, FL (December 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL) – The University of Miami Law Review Symposium will take place on Saturday January 31, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Storer Auditorium of the business school located at 5250 University Drive on the Coral Gables
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