The issue of sexual violence via internet images is at the center of the Audrie Pott’s trial, just as it has been in the Steubenville Ohio rape case, adding a new and troubling dimensin to teen suicide and creating a call for “Audrie’s Law” to toughen up on cyber bullying. Pott wrote on her Facebook […]
Kareem Serageldin and His Co-Conspirators Concealed As Much As A Half-Billion Dollars from Subprime Mortgage-Related Losses LawFuel.com – American Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the guilty plea of KAREEM SERAGELDIN, the former Managing Director/Global Head of Structured Credit in the Investment Banking
LawFuel.com – US Law News Daily – Defendant is the Eighth Lawyer Charged and Second to Plead Guilty in Massive Immigration Fraud Scheme Related to Thousands of Fraudulent Asylum Applications Submitted by at Least 10 New York City Law Firms Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos,
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LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that THOMAS C. CONRADT, a former stock broker at a securities trading firm (“Securities Trading Firm-1”), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges arising from his involvement in an insider trading scheme. The alleged scheme involved the
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LawFuel.com – A team of HFW lawyers, led by Partner David Brookes, has advised Pareto Securities AS, as bond managers, and Norsk Tillitsmann ASA, as bond trustee, on a US$575m Norwegian high yield bond issued by Sea Trucks Group Limited. The deal, which was closed within a month of launching, is the largest ever high
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Sidley Austin continues its expansion mood in 2013 with 11 senior lawyers joining the firm from Bingham McCutchen. Last month the firm hired a tax partner from Vinson & Elkins, a technology partner from Cooleys and an M&A partner from King & Spalding. The firm has recruited 11 lawyers from Bingham McCutchen, including Bingham’s securities
LawFuel.com – Two New York City Party Leaders and Two Elected Officials in the Village of Spring Valley Also Charged in Bribery Schemes Charges Include Cash Bribes of More Than $100,000 Changing Hands in Connection With Republican Mayoral Ballot, City Council Discretionary Funds, and Spring Valley Development Project Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for
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LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – A German national who managed a series of hedge funds based in the Cayman Islands has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging that he oversaw a stock manipulation scheme designed to “pump up” the reported returns of his hedge funds, while self-dealing for his own benefit to
Next Tuesday sees a significant Supreme Court case on same-sex marriage, a move that has been portrayed as civil disobedience by government officials but for San Francisco lawyers in the city attorney offices it represents moving outside what they traditionally do: defend the government’s laws. Dennis J Herrera, the San Francisco City Attorney, whose office
Lawfuel.com – Chadbourne & Parke represented the winning consortium, comprising ACWA Power International, Samsung C+T Corporation and MENA Infrastructure Fund, in relation to the development and US$ 2 billion debt financing of the Qurayyah independent power project in Saudi Arabia. The financing of the 3,927MW power project closed on April 24, 2012, making
