LOS ANGELES – An attorney who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and tax evasion charges – and who prosecutors say defrauded a dozen clients out of at least $8 million in an investment fraud scheme – was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison. Stephen Young Kang, 46, of Newport Beach, […]
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A woman who died from ovarian cancer that she claimed was caused by using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder has been awarded $72 million by a Missouri jury. The woman’s attorneys produced evidence that included a 1997 J&J memo from the company’s medical consultant suggesting that “anybody who denies [the] risks” between “hygenic” talc use and
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When you have been convicted of a crime in Canada, he is left with a criminal record. Regardless of whether the person has actually committed the crime or not, a conviction means a criminal record, which can place some serious limitations on daily life. A pardon, drafted with the help of organizations such as
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What is a criminal record? Anyone who has been convicted of an offense under the Criminal Code of Canada will receive a criminal record. This is a record of all of the offences associated with that person, held in a database by the RCMP. This record will be held until you reach 80 years
Should the government that Cliven Bundy so loathes provide him with a free lawyer? Well, Judge Janice M Stewart isn’t falling for that one – not straight away at least. The Judge has required the anti-government activist to supply an affidavit outlining exactly what his financial circumstances are. Bundy, 69, has already withheld over $1
What did a 64 year old Washington DC lawyer like Hank Levine do to promote a text-bombing episode that drained the telco lawyer’s phone battery and had him running to a burrito store? Sound strange? Well the issue arose following a campaign by burrito chain Chipotle who said their customers needed to text 888-222 with the
The legal copyright fight between Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke and Marvin Gaye’s heirs has sent the music industry into a tailspin. Billboard report that he “British Rule” of loser pays shouldn’t apply in the copyright dispute between the parties following the verdict that shocked the industry last March over the “Blurred Lines” track.. The verdict
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It may be the last of the Nazi trials. A spritely 94 year old has gone on trial in Germany to face 170,000 counts of accessory to murder following his World War Two work as a guard at Auschwitz death camp. Reinhold Hanning faces the trial in Detmold and walked to court in a manner
Details About the Circle of Legal Trust program of speakers for the forthcoming meeting in Las Vegas, April 7-9 This will be a HIRL, which means, assuming Google Hangouts on Air is functioning properly, the live seminar will be simulcast live,worldwide on Google Plus. It is all here starting on Thursday, April 7 at 2:00
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD”), and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police
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