LawFuel.com – Legal Announcement Service IRS – Criminal Investigation, Los Angeles and San Diego For Immediate Release Contact: Angie Ortanez, Special Agent Public Information Officer Office: (619) 615-9036 Mobile: (619) 770-9310 IRS CRACKS DOWN ON RETURN PREPARER FRAUD Chino Hills tax preparer sentenced to 11 years in prison LOS ANGELES – While the majority of […]

LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire Service – Werksmans has once again taken pole position in the Ernst & Young’s Mergers & Acquisitions Review of Activity 2008 (18th edition) with wins in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by both deal flow and deal value. Werksmans scooped this accolade based on the 67 deals, valued in excess of R162

LawFuel.com – US Legal Newswire – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CONSTANCE G. POST, former Commissioner of the Mount Vernon Department of Planning and Community Development as well as Executive Director of the Mount Vernon Department of Planning and Urban Renewal Agency, and

LawFuel.com – Legal Announcements – GUY PETRILLO, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for purposes of the case described in this release, announced that JOHN BZDIL, III, pleaded guilty today to charges arising out of a scheme to defraud Columbia University (“Columbia”) through the submission by BZDIL of phony

LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Announcements R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced that on March 31, 2009, the Honorable Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced defendant Otto Hevia, of Miami, to 46 months in prison, to be

Washington, D.C., April 1, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged video and computer game publisher and distributor Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. for falsifying its reported income over a seven-year period. Take-Two agreed to pay a $3 million penalty to settle the SEC’s charges that the company defrauded investors by granting backdated,

WASHINGTON, DC – (LAWFUEL) April 1, 2009 Paul S. Weidenfeld, a principal in the law firm of Ober|Kaler, has been chosen by Nightingale’s Healthcare News for its “Outstanding Healthcare Litigator – 2008” ranking. Mr. Weidenfeld is one of only ten lawyers from across the country selected for inclusion on the list, which appeared in the

(LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), of trading of the securities of Continan Communications, Inc. (“Continan”), of Marina del Rey, California commencing at 9:30 a.m. EDT on April 1, 2009, and terminating at 11:59 p.m. on

CHICAGO (LAWFUEL) – Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., is pleased to announce that the firm has received Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s award for outstanding achievement during the past year in the “Trademark Litigation (Contentious) – Midwest” category. The firm was recognized at Managing IP’s

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — The number of visitors to IRS.gov is up more than 24 percent compared with last year, and more taxpayers rely on the Internal Revenue Service’s online resources to get answers to tax questions on the economic recovery legislation and to prepare and file tax returns accurately and timely. More than 138 million