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Canadian Man Convicted of Massive Telemarketing Scheme Targeting Credit Card Fraud

LOS ANGELES – The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of mail and wire fraud for having orchestrated a bogus telemarketing scheme that defrauded at least 60,000 victims of over $18 million dollars. After fighting extradition for over 10 years, Mark Eldon Wilson, 57, of Vancouver, British Columbia, […]

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Foley & Lardner LLP and Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Complete Combination

Milwaukee, WI – March 30, 2018 – Foley & Lardner LLP and Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP today announced the successful combination of the two firms, effective April 1, 2018. The combined firm will have approximately 1,100 lawyers in 24 offices in the United States, Mexico, Asia and Europe. More specifically, Foley will now have a

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Lawsuit Against Foreclosure Law Firm For Overbilling Fannie Mae Foreclosure Expenses

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Rene Febles, Deputy Inspector General for Investigations for the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA-OIG”), announced today that the United States has filed a complaint-in-intervention against Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, P.C. (“ROSICKI”), a foreclosure law firm in New York, and its

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New Zealand Law – Timothy Slack struck off the roll

The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal has ordered that Timothy Upton Slack be struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors. He admitted a charge that, having been convicted of an offence punishable by imprisonment, that conviction reflected on his fitness to practise, and/or tended to bring the legal profession into disrepute. The

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Bankruptcy Attorney Pleads Guilty to Embezzling From Bankruptcy Estate

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PINCUS DAVID CARLEBACH, a bankruptcy attorney, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to embezzling funds from a client’s bankruptcy estate. From January 2016 through February 2016, CARLEBACH, whose client was in bankruptcy proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy

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Recording Artist ‘DMX’ Sentenced To Prison For Tax Fraud

Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EARL SIMMONS, an internationally known recording artist, performer, and actor known professionally as “DMX” and “X,” was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year in prison for tax fraud in connection with evading the payment of income

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Auckland man Saul Roberts receives home detention for defrauding disability trust

The former asset manager of a tax-payer funded disability trust has been sentenced to eight months of home detention and ordered to pay reparations of $164,929 for charges brought by the Serious Fraud Office. Saul Brendon Roberts was sentenced today in the Auckland High Court. He had pleaded guilty earlier to all five charges he

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