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LAWFUEL – The US Legal Newswire – From October 15 – 19, 2007, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will take part in a multi-agency national preparedness exercise known as Top Officials, or TOPOFF. Next week’s exercise is the fourth segment of the TOPOFF series of congressionally mandated exercises administered by the Department of Homeland Security

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that VLADIMIR KUZNETSOV, 50, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 51 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit money laundering. On March 2, 2007, KUZNETSOV was found guilty by a jury, after less

Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, October 11, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Baker & McKenzie LLP is pleased to announce that, together with Equal Justice Works, it has selected its 2007 Public Interest Law Fellows- Samuel Tepperman-Gelfant and Jackie Bliss. This is the first time the Firm has chosen two fellows

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that a Melvin Parker, Jr., 32, of Richmond, California, was arraigned yesterday before the Honorable James Larson, Chief Magistrate Judge, on charges of Sex Trafficking of a Minor. The complaint alleges that over a period of weeks Parker made

Defendants Billed Medicare Over $1 Million For Tests Based On Falsified Physician’s Orders SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – US Legal Newswire – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced that four defendants were sentenced by United States District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel for perpetrating a scheme that defrauded Medicare of over $1 million for tests

LAWFUEL – Law Firm News – The Texas Supreme Court approved 18 members of a new Task Force on Judicial Foreclosure Rules this week. This task force, chaired by Dallas Shareholder W. Mike Baggett of Texas law firm Winstead PC, will be charged with assessing rules for home-equity and reverse-mortgage foreclosures after legislative changes in

LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – Diners Club has become the eighth financial institution to plead guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act by failing to properly disclose its currency conversion fees. The breaches relate to Diners charge card transactions between 3 January 2002 and 10 June 2003. When customers used their cards overseas

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire + Law Jobs Network – The Commerce Commission has received an application from Cavalier Corporation Limited and Norman Ellison Holdings Limited seeking clearance for a proposal under which a new joint venture company (owned by the parties) will acquire the carpet business of Norman Ellison Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and ROSE GILL HEARN, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI”), announced the arrest today of CAROL CUMBERBATCH, 42, for defrauding the federal Section 8 housing program of over $17,000 in