Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that New York State Senator THOMAS W. LIBOUS was found guilty of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) following a seven-day trial in White Plains before the Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti, United States District Judge. Manhattan U.S. […]
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN MEJIA was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 44 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to cash more than $400,000 in fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks issued in other people’s names. MEJIA
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LawFuel.com – Defendant Also Conspired to Provide Material Support to the FARC and to Acquire and Transfer Anti-Aircraft Missiles Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RAFAEL ANTONIO GARAVITO-GARCIA was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to engage
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Frankfurt, 20 July 2015 – Mayer Brown is pleased to announce that Alexander Behrens has joined the Banking & Finance practice as a partner. Mr. Behrens, who will base his practice in Frankfurt, comes to Mayer Brown from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was a financial services specialist. Mr. Behrens advises clients, which
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Major dating site Plenty of Fish has been sold to the world’s largest online dating site, Match.com in a deal that has plenty of lawyers involved. In a news release, Venable LLP said that it has co-advised, with Canadian business firm McMillan LLP, client PlentyOfFish Media, Inc. on its sale to the Match Group, a
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Cloud-based law firms are becoming an increasing reality and now one law firm has created the largest lateral move of lawyers from a traditional firm to a cloud-based one. Florida-based FisherBroyles LLP announced this week that eight attorneys from law firm Roetzel & Andress LPA have joined the largest cloud-based firm in the United States
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There’s a lot of ‘different’ law practised in Hollywood you might think, but for one entertainment attorney a claim that an actress attempted to have her as a sex slave is a lawsuit too far. Attorneys representing the law firm Stone, Meyer, Genow, Smelkinson & Binder LLP won a Court round this week when the
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How did a smart lawyer holding three degrees and who once counted Chief Justice John G Roberts as one of his class mates wind up haunting a Washington DC intersection and carrying his belongings in a plastic bag wind up as a homeless man? It’s a sad tale of a highly educated, talented man who
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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today a groundbreaking settlement to resolve allegations that American Honda Finance Corporation (Honda) engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander borrowers in auto lending. Honda is based in Torrance, California. The
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Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DANIEL PAGANO, a Captain of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra (the “Genovese Crime Family”) was sentenced to a term of 27 months in prison for his leadership role in the Genovese Crime Family. PAGANO
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