PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Darrell Forest May, 58, of Phoenix, was sentenced here on Monday, December 15, 2008, by U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll to five years probation and a $20,000 fine. May pleaded guilty on October 29, 2007 to Tax Evasion. Between July 2000 and December 2005, May attempted to evade the payment of
Washington, D.C., Dec. 17, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today approved a new rule to help protect seniors and other investors from fraudulent and abusive practices that can occur in the sale of equity-indexed annuities. Equity-indexed annuities, first introduced in the mid-1990s, have grown significantly over the years. In 2004 alone, sales
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LawFuel – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Division, and Betty N. Stewart, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced that defendants Vincent F. Artuso, John Vincent Artuso, Gregory
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LawFuel – Legal Announcement Service – Ron Paul’s letter to supporters asks where the money went? “The Founders’ inspired vision of limited government has been kept alive by the hard work and generosity of Americans who truly cherish individual Liberty… average people like you and me. In the toughest times… times like we are facing
Latham & Watkins said Tuesday it will freeze associate salaries in response to “challenging economic times,” a move that could signal the rest of the industry to follow suit, observers said. “Everybody’s been waiting for some kind of signal from the market leader,” said consultant Peter Zeughauser, founder of The Zeughauser Group. “This will be
DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Yong Gates, age 70, of Houston, Texas, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to structuring prostitution proceeds, Troy A. Eid, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, Christopher M. Sigerson, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, and Jeffrey Copp, Special Agent in Charge, Immigration and Customs
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(LAWFUEL) – Washington D.C., December 17, 2008 – Baker & McKenzie has expanded its North American Antitrust & Competition Practice Group with the addition of former FTC Commissioner Mary Azcuenaga as a partner in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Azcuenaga was a partner at Heller Ehrman, serving for six years as co-chair of the
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Expert in International Law to Launch School’s New Arbitration Institute Coral Gables, FL (December 17, 2008 – LAWFUEL) – The University of Miami School of Law today announced the appointment of Jan Paulsson to the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair beginning in the academic year 2009-10. Paulsson is head of the public international law and
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Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox issued the following statement today concerning its ongoing investigation in the case of SEC v. Madoff: Since the Commission first took emergency action against Bernard Madoff and his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC, on Thursday, December 11, every necessary
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PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Mohammad Reza Alavi, 51, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was sentenced here today by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 15 months in federal prison. Alavi, a former employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, was found guilty by a federal jury on May 27, 2008 for Unauthorized Access to a
