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LAWFUEL – Attorney General Bill McCollum announced the arrests today of Esther Romeu, a Miami health clinic owner, and five South Florida physicians on charges of defrauding the Medicare and Medicaid programs out of more than $15 million. The doctors and clinic owner are alleged to have run an elaborate scheme involving costly treatments for

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today a takedown of mortgage fraud schemes, the culmination of substantial coordinated efforts during the last three and a half months to identify, arrest and prosecute mortgage fraud violators in Arizona. Operation Cash Back highlights the strong enforcement response undertaken

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and RONALD J. VERROCHIO, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced the arrest late yesterday of EMANUEL MEDEIROS for perpetrating a mass-mail, fake invoice scam that targeted

LAWFUEL – Legal Announcement Service – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Michael Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. States Secret Service (USSS), Jon Rymer, Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – Office of

Nonprofit Promotes Professionalism Through Volunteer Service New York (June 16, 2008) – LawFuel – Legal Newswire – Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to justice, was selected as one of three winners of this year’s American Bar Association (ABA) E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Awards. The E. Smythe Gambrell Awards recognize projects

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — The Internal Revenue Service today announced that it will waive certain limitations for the low-income housing tax credit in Indiana and Iowa so that owners of facilities in these states can provide housing to victims of recent storms and flooding. The IRS will continue to monitor closely the housing situation in other

Philadelphia, Pa. – June 19, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Pepper Hamilton LLP recently secured major victories for biotechnology and pharmaceutical clients in three separate securities class actions in a 10-day period. Representing Discovery Laboratories, Inc., Eli Lilly and Company and GlaxoSmithKline, the firm won dismissals from three federal courts between April 29 and May 9, 2008.

(LAWFUEL) – Testimony Concerning Oversight of Risk Management at Investment Banks Erik Sirri, Director, Division of Trading and Markets U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission Before the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate June 19, 2008 Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Allard, and Members of the Subcommittee:

NEW YORK, June 19, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — A four-law firm legal team (www.subprimelosses.com) with nationally recognized securities law experience, asserts that the criminal indictments that were announced today of the former managers of the Bear Stearns hedge funds show that the game was rigged and that the interests of investors were sacrificed so that the

Washington, D.C., June 19, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two former Bear Stearns Asset Management (BSAM) portfolio managers for fraudulently misleading investors about the financial state of the firm’s two largest hedge funds and their exposure to subprime mortgage-backed securities before the collapse of the funds in June 2007. The