Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Boris Bershteyn, Daniel B. Weinstein Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect Supreme Court decisions through June 29, 2015. As the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014-15 term concluded, the Court resolved several cases with potentially wide-reaching implications for a range of important policy and business issues.
SAN DIEGO – Attorney Gino Paul Pietro appeared in two federal courthouses this week, where he was collectively sentenced to serve 30 months in prison for participating in separate fraud schemes in Orange and San Diego counties. On July 20, 2015, U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford in Santa Ana ordered Pietro to serve 24 months
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TV lawyer Loredana Nesci has been found dead in her apartment. The cop-turned-lawyer, also known as The Legal Diva, became a celebrity through her show “Loredana Esq” on the Sundance Channel, was found by police and her long time boyfriend, Robert Reagan, 51, has been arrested in connection with the dea He is being held
Lawyer Gene Balloun is hooked on fostering. Mr Balloun, a Kansas City lawyer, has fostered 29 children together with his wife, but he has also helped over 1000 children find permanent homes by using his legal knowledge to help foster parents to adopt kids. When Mr Balloun and his wife fostered their first child, David,
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John Bowie, LawFuel – Using LinkedIn properly can provide lawyers with a source of new business that can produce results more effectively than most other marketing tools available. The ability to use large scale ad budgets for browing a law business is out of reach for most firms. But if you use LinkedIn properly
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No Damages Paid; Settlement Prohibits Future Anti-Trust Claims New York, NY (July 23, 2015) – SESAC, Inc., a leader and innovator in music licensing that serves music creators, publishers, as well as users of music, today announced that the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) has voluntarily dismissed the last antitrust lawsuit remaining
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The storm of controversy over “Kate’s Law” and the murder of the 32 year old in San Francisco by a criminal alien has continued and Fox News presenter Bill O’Reilly continues to push the issue, noting that 110 American cities and counties are refusing to obey the federal government over enforcing immigration laws. This, O’Reilly
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that New York State Senator THOMAS W. LIBOUS was found guilty of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) following a seven-day trial in White Plains before the Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti, United States District Judge. Manhattan U.S.
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN MEJIA was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 44 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to cash more than $400,000 in fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks issued in other people’s names. MEJIA
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Defendants Operated a Federal Credit Union as a Captive Bank for Their Unlawful Business Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Robert Sica, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office
