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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Salvador Hernandez has been named Assistant Director in Charge (ADIC) of the FBI’s Los Angeles Division. Director Robert S. Mueller, III, appointed him to this position to replace current ADIC J. Stephen Tidwell, who will be returning to FBI Headquarters in a senior policy position. Most recently, Mr. Hernandez

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Rep Ron Paul, of Texas, is the only Republican contender to post notable fund-raising gains last quarter, managing to pull in $5 million– mostly online and a lot of it from our troops. His fundraising puts him on par with John McCain. Paul is a Republican who is fining

LAWFUEL – A lawsuit over a horse has landed rock star Bruce Springsteen in court. The lawsuit, for $850,000 by a man who claims he backed out of a contract to buy a horse. Springsteen and his wife Patti Scialfa are both named in legal documents filed in Florida by Todd Minikus. He claims the

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire ATLANTA, Oct. 5, 2007 On September 7, 2007, shareholder derivative litigation was commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia on behalf of Massey Energy Company (“Massey”) (NYSE:MEE) against certain members of its Board of Directors and certain of its executive officers seeking to

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire CHICAGO – October 5, 2007 — Loeb & Loeb LLP announced new administrative appointments in the firm’s Chicago office. Daniel Frohling, a partner in the Intellectual Property Group, has been named Administrative Partner-in-Charge of the office and Jordan Sigale, a partner and recent lateral hire, will act as the Lateral

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that five defendants were sentenced to various prison terms after pleading guilty to charges of conspiring to traffic and trafficking cocaine. The 10-person cocaine ring operated throughout Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. Nine defendants have been sentenced to

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and KAREN P. TANDY, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced that BAZ MOHAMMAD, 51, an Afghan heroin kingpin, and the first defendant ever extradited to the United States from Afghanistan,