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Former Partner at International Law Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Violations

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  LawFuel.com – Law Firm News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that THEODORE L. FREEDMAN, a former senior partner at a major international law firm (the “Law Firm”), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to four counts of tax fraud for under-reporting his partnership

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Two San Gabriel Valley Men Charged with Participating in ‘Black Market Peso Exchange’ Scheme Used to Move Money Out of U.S.

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          LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – Two men and the import-export company they allegedly used to move millions of dollars linked to illegal activity from the United States to Mexico are scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon after being indicted on federal charges of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and structuring cash transactions.

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Investment Manager Sentenced to Federal Prison for Fraudulent Trade Correction Orders that Cost Customers over $900,000

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          LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – A San Fernando Valley-based investment advisor was sentenced this afternoon to two years in federal prison for his role in an investment scheme in which he stole profits from trades executed on his clients’ behalf, depriving them of more than $900,000.         Philip D. Horn, 51, of Tarzana,

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The Lady QC, With a Difference

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Being a Queen’s Counsel is the highest honour a British barrister can receive, beyond judicial elevation.  But it’s also been largely an ‘old boys’ network of fusty men in musty chambers. So how does a recently elevated barrister like Michelle Stevens-Hoare make it?  More to the point, how does a lady barrister like Michelle Stevens-Hoare  

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Swiss Bank Wegelin & Co Order to Pay $58 Million for Conspiring to Evade Tax

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In First-Ever Sentence of a Foreign Bank, Wegelin & Co. Ordered to Pay the United States Approximately $58 Million for Conspiring to Evade Taxes    LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kathryn Keneally, the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of

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Weil’s Mindy Spector Honored as Law Firm “Trailblazer”

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  LawFuel.com – US Law Firm News – Mindy J. Spector, Weil’s General Counsel and a partner in the Complex Commercial Litigation practice group, was honored as a Kate Stoneman Project “Trailblazer” at a reception last night. The Kate Stoneman Project recognizes women lawyers who have served as trailblazers for all women in the legal

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Jones Day awarded Qualifying Foreign Law Practice licence in Singapore

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Washington, DC – The global law firm Jones Day is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licence, allowing the Firm to advise on Singapore law matters in permitted areas. The licencing application period took place in July and August of 2012, and 23 foreign law practices submitted

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Former Jenkens & Gilchrist Lawyer Sentenced for Promoting Illegal Tax Shelters Generating Billions in Fraudulent Tax Losses

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LawFuel.com – US Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONNA GUERIN, an attorney, was sentenced today to eight years in prison on conspiracy and tax evasion charges stemming from her work on the design, marketing, and implementation of fraudulent tax shelters that allowed

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