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LAWFUEL – Legal Announcement Service – A former interrogator for the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran was found guilty this afternoon of violating the trade embargo with Iran by entering into consulting contracts to help two companies in that country and then failing to report his income to the Internal Revenue Service. Seyed Mahmood Mousavi,

TUCSON, Ariz. (Lawfuel) — The Department of Justice will increase resources to support federal law enforcement activities on the Southwest Border through $7 million for U.S. Attorneys’ offices in that region, Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip announced today during a trip to the Southwest Border region. The Southwest Border U.S. Attorneys’ offices will receive

BALTIMORE April 24, 2008 (Lawfuel)- In a verdict today, a federal jury found that Prince George’s County discriminated against Reaching Hearts International on the basis of religion and that the County had substantially burdened the religious exercise of Reaching Hearts International, a Seventh Day Adventist Church. After a seven day trial before U.S. District Judge

April 24, 2008 -LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Chadbourne & Parke is representing the lenders on the financing of the $4.25 billion, 4,000MW Mundra coal fired uItra mega power project in India being developed by Tata Power Company. The loan agreements for the financing were executed in New Delhi on April 24, 2008. Nine

LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, George E.B. Holding announced yesterday that a federal jury in Los Angeles, California, found AVEDIS DJEREDJIAN, 39, of Glendale, California, guilty on 15 counts for conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, in violation of Title 18, United States Code,

LAWFUEL – Business & Law Newswire – Washington, D.C., April 24, 2008 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Paul S. Berliner, a Wall Street trader formerly associated with Schottenfeld Group LLC, with securities fraud and market manipulation for intentionally spreading false rumors about The Blackstone Group’s acquisition of Alliance Data Systems (ADS) while

Six Weeks Added To Paid Leave in Connection with Birth, Adoption HOUSTON – Andrews Kurth LLP is proud to announce that the firm has expanded its paid maternity leave from 12 weeks to 18 weeks. Under this expansion of the firm’s policy, a primary childcare provider will receive an additional six weeks of paid leave

The Board of Directors of National City Corporation, which is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and is one of the nation’s largest financial holding companies, has unanimously approved the raising of $7 billion of additional equity capital to solidify the company’s financial foundation. The capital raise includes $985 million of private equity capital from Corsair Capital

Lawfuel – Rodolfo Wanseele Paciello, 40, one of five foreign nationals accused of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“Venezuela”) within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, pleaded guilty earlier today to acting as an unregistered Venezuelan agent before