PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Conrado Garcia-Medina, 25, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 25 years in prison for his role in holding illegal aliens hostage in a Phoenix apartment. Garcia-Medina, the leader of a criminal gang that kidnapped aliens from other smuggling organizations for ransom, pleaded guilty on
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PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – On August 4, 2008, Mark A. Morris, 34, of Phoenix, was sentenced here by U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to 46 months in federal prison. Morris pleaded guilty to Felon in Possession of a Firearm on March 11, 2008. Morris, a documented “park south crip” criminal street gang member, has two
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (LAWFUEL) – Additional arrests last weekend brought the total to 27 people who have been charged with bootlegging on the Navajo Nation after a 4-month long investigation. The arrests were made over three weekends in July and August by officers of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety with assistance by the Federal
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Paul Hastings Advises Intesa Sanpaolo on the English and US Law Aspects of its €8 billion Securitisation Wednesday, August 06, 2008 London (August 6, 2008)(LAWFUEL) – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that firm advised the Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo on the English and U.S. law aspects
(LAWFUEL) – Clyde & Co LLP has advised Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (‘du’) on its AED 3 billion (USD 817 million) dual currency syndicated loan facility. The medium term syndicated loan facility is the debut debt offering for the Dubai, UAE headquartered telecommunications operator and will finance increased investment and expansion in du’s mobile
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(LAWFUEL) – Asian-Counsel magazine has named Clyde & Co as ‘Firm of the Year 2008’ for the UAE as a result of the firm’s expertise in ‘Restructuring’. Clyde & Co is the largest international law firm in the GCC. Asian-Counsel Firms of the Year are selected annually on the basis of votes and testimonials of
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LawFuel – Legal Announcement Service – Leading international law firms Eversheds and Slaughter and May have helped close one of the biggest business process outsourcing (BPO) deals in the financial services sector. WNS (Holdings) Limited, advised by Eversheds, and Aviva plc, advised by Slaughter and May, have completed a multi-year $1 billion BPO contract. WNS,
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Taylor Wessing, the City law firm, has sued an American rival for $5 million (£2.6 million) for allegedly illegally poaching several partners from its Paris office. Earlier this week, Taylor Wessing asked a court in New York for an injunction preventing 12 of the 15 non-equity partners in its Paris office from joining Nixon Peabody,
Two Los Angeles men – the owner of a Los Angeles-area hospital and a man who acted as a recruiter – were arrested this morning on federal charges of defrauding Medicare and Medi-Cal by providing unnecessary health services to homeless people who were recruited from “Skid Row” with promises of payments. Rudra Sabaratnam, 64, of
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A New York state judge has ruled that a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe associate may only seek nominal damages in his claim alleging the law firm broke a promise to promote him to partner, reports the New York Law Journal. Patrick Hoeffner’s 2005 lawsuit against Orrick claimed that in 2002 the firm’s partners had
