LOS ANGELES – A Long Beach-based lobbyist, whose clients included illegal marijuana stores in Long Beach, has been charged with filing a false tax return and failing to report more than three-quarters of a million dollars in income over a six-year period. Carl A. Kemp, 43, of Long Beach, the owner of the […]
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Attorney Jeffrey Greenberg, a Tuscon lawyer, has pleaded guilty in a $33-million real estate scheme in California that a federal prosecutor described as “extraordinary fraud.” Greenberg, 66, and Courtland Gettel, 42, of Coronado, California, pleaded guilty May 17 to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of
Leading Tech and Life Sciences Law Firm Addresses Growing Client Demand in New York Mountain View, CA (May 24, 2016) – Fenwick & West, the leading technology and life sciences law firm, today announced that it will launch its New York office in June. The firm will bolster its service offering to the New York
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Bill O’Reilly the Fox News host is planning a $10 million lawsuit against his former wife in litigation that appears increasingly acrimonious as he makes claims of cheating. Reports indicate that O’Reilly claims his former wife knowingly made false representations and omissions regarding their divorce settlement. Gossip site Gawker released a copy of the Summons
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British QC Gary Bell is a top criminal lawyer, who has also released his book “Animal QC”. This extract from The Spectator looks at drug dealers – cocaine dealers specifically – and at how the drug business is not necessarily quite as glamorous as you might imagine. As a defence silk, I come across some
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT LEES, a former senior executive of Universal Forest Products, Inc. (“UFP”) was convicted a jury of conspiracy, mail fraud, money laundering and making false statements in a loan application following a seven-day trial in White Plains before United
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Former Manhattan corporate lawyer Charles Bennett has received a 5 year prison term for a ponzi scheme he set up that fleeced investors of over $5 million. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES A. BENNETT was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five
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DLA Piper – Even by the standards of the exciting and ever-changing landscape of unmanned aerial system (UAS) or drone law, the month of April was eventful. In April, we observed in at least one case the Federal Aviation Administration significantly relax its commercial UAS operational restrictions, as well as an enormous step forward in
s LOS ANGELES – The former chief executive officer of Absolute Capital Holdings Ltd., which had its primary office in Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca, has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors in which he will forfeit $8 million that federal prosecutors contend was derived from a fraud scheme conducted by
LawFuel.com – US Attorney News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT STEWART, a/k/a “Bob,” was sentenced to four years’ probation, with the first year to be served in home detention, and $150,000 in forfeiture for conspiring to use inside information provided by
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