Law Admin

(LAWFUEL) – Federal agents have today charged two men with trafficking ecstasy bringing to 22 the total number now charged in connection with last week’s joint Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Customs operation involving the world’s largest ecstasy seizure. AFP agents executed search warrants on residential addresses in Preston this morning and arrested the two

NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Roy Jacobs & Associates announces that it is investigating possible securities and other legal violations by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) (NYSE:FRE) and (NYSE:FRE-PZ) as a result of its announcement on August 6, 2008, reporting a net loss of $821 million, or $1.63 per share,

First Settlement in Western U.S. Requiring State-of-the-Art Nitrogen Oxide Retrofit WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — As part of the fifteenth settlement secured by the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency to control harmful air pollution from coal-fired power plants, the owner and operator of a plant in St. Johns, Ariz., has agreed to install pollution controls

Washington, D.C., Aug. 13, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has published for public comment an agreement among the securities self-regulatory organizations (SROs) that is designed to improve detection of insider trading across the equities markets by centralizing surveillance, investigation, and enforcement under NYSE Regulation, Inc. (NYSE Regulation) and

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Martin Walter Davis, 43, of Garden Grove, Calif., was sentenced here yesterday to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. Davis, a previously convicted felon, was apprehended in Phoenix in May 2007 while in possession of a Glock .40 caliber handgun. He pleaded guilty on January 22,

LawFuel – In November 2005 YEPC, a joint venture owned by ExxonMobil and Hunt Oil, commenced arbitration proceedings against Yemen over an alleged five-year extension to a 20 year Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) in respect of Block 18, a major oil producing block. Michael Goldberg, a partner at Houston law firm Baker Botts, representing YEPC,

New York – LawFuel – Law Firm Announcements – Sidley Austin LLP has been named as a 2008 Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers Best Law Firm for Women. The firm is among a total of 50 law firms selected by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers, a national consulting firm advising lawyers and legal employers

LAWFUEL – The former bookkeeper of the International Longshoremen & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 26 was arrested today on federal charges of embezzling union funds. Rosa Della Porta, 44, of Highland Park, was taken into custody by federal authorities after being indicted last Friday on one count of embezzling union funds. Della Porta is expected

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Brian Guzman-Ochoa, AKA. Ivan Guzman-Ochoa, 32, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico has been arrested and charged with transporting illegal aliens. Nine people died and 10 more were injured as a result of a vehicle rollover crash on August 7, 2008. According to the complaint, Guzman-Ochoa has been identified as the driver of the