LOS ANGELES – The owner of a Tustin tax preparation business called First Quality Tax Services was arrested this morning on federal charges that allege he prepared and filed fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming false deductions for his clients. Thomas P. Butcher, 61, of Rancho Santa Margarita, was arrested by special agents with IRS […]
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LawFuel asked six top law marketing gurus what lawyers should be doing in 2019 to market their firms and their services. What works? What doesn’t? Here we outline what our six law marketers advise for 2019. Larry Bodine Larry Bodine is the Senior Legal Marketing Strategist for LawLytics, the No. 1 Website Marketing System for
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LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities have charged a total of 22 defendants with defrauding the Social Security Administration by illegally receiving cash benefits and causing a cumulative loss of $2.6 million. Most of the defendants are charged with taking Social Security benefits for relatives after the family members had died and failing to alert
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MIAMI (April 18, 2016) – Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has expanded its Miami office with the addition of Jennifer A. Schwartz as a shareholder. Schwartz joins Littler from Jackson Lewis, where she served as a principal for the past five years and where she has worked
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Complaint Seeks Forfeiture of Funds in At Least 20 Accounts Worldwide Stolen from American Company Through International Business E-Mail Fraud Scheme The alleged perpetrators – through a fake email address and by impersonating a legitimate vendor – almost got away with $100 million. – US Attorney Preet Bharara Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney
WASHINGTON – LawFuel.com – U.S. Attorneys are joining forces with local law enforcement and community leaders for a series of events around the country to address backlash against Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian Americans following the tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels, Paris and San Bernardino, California. The 14 events in 11 districts will
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So how did Led Zeppelin get into this “Stairway to Heaven” lawsuit mess? The lawsuit, which alleges that members of the iconic band plagiarized key elements in the equally iconic song, is to move to a full jury trial. The lawsuit goes back two years when the estate of Randy Wolfe, a former guitarist with
The Panamanian Papers scandal has rocked the political, financial and legal worlds as if the whole thing was a John Grisham legal thriller. And so who better to analyze just how the law firm that created the secretive law firm behind the global secrecy deals than the New York Times? The story of how two
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Wells Fargo Bank Admits That It Certified That Loans Were Eligible for FHA Mortgage Insurance When They Were Not, and That It Did Not Report Thousands of Faulty Mortgage Loans to HUD Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Julián Castro, Secretary of the U.S. Department of
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DENVER – Jason Timothy Throne, age 55, formerly of Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to mail fraud and filing a false income tax return, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, IRS Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced. Judge Arguello is scheduled to sentence Throne on July 13,
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