SEC CHARGES FORMER N.Y. STATE OFFICIAL AND TOP POLITICAL ADVISOR FOR DEFRAUDING NEW YORK’S RETIREMENT FUND IN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR KICKBACK SCHEME Washington, D.C., March 19, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York’s former Deputy Comptroller and a top political advisor for extracting millions of dollars in kickbacks from investment management […]

(LAWFUEL) – International law firm Stephenson Harwood has hired aviation “heavy hitter” Paul Ng as global head of aviation with effect 19 March. Sunil Gadhia, Chief Executive at Stephenson Harwood, said “Paul’s reputation as a first class aviation lawyer will greatly strengthen and complement our already expanding global and Asian aviation practice which in recent

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Gregorio Villegas-Rivas, 48, of Sinaloa, Mexico was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 37 months in federal prison. Carlos Velasquez-Cuevas, 25, of Jalisco, Mexico, and Gustavo Ortega-Rivas, 24, of Sinaloa, Mexico, were also sentenced today by Judge Snow to 30 months each. All three pleaded guilty on November

(LAWFUEL) – The master of a Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier ship will appear in the Gladstone Magistrates Court today for allegedly breaching shipping regulations in the environmentallysensitive Whitsunday area of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. It is alleged the 46-year-old Chinese national breached the regulations by travelling in the Whitsunday’s Compulsory Pilotage Area without

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – A federal grand jury in Phoenix returned an 8-count indictment yesterday against Jesus Mercado-Miranda, 31, of Sinaloa, Mexico for a violations of: illegally re-entering the United States, alien in possession of three firearms, and possessing the following with intent to distribute: cocaine base (crack), methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. Mercado-Miranda was also

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that two Texas men have settled SEC charges that they perpetrated a massive e-mail spam campaign to drive up the demand for low value stocks they owned. Under the settlement, which was entered today in the form of two final judgments

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — As part of the Treasury Department’s consumer outreach effort and with the April 15 individual tax filing deadline approaching, the Internal Revenue Service today began a concerted effort to educate taxpayers about additional options at their disposal to claim the new $8,000 first-time homebuyer credit for 2009 home purchases. For people who

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LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire Service – Santa Ana – Tu Ky Huynh aka Tiffany Huynh of Westminster, California pleaded guilty on March 13, 2009, in United States District Court in Santa Ana to charges that she willfully aided and assisted in the preparation of false and fraudulent federal income tax returns related to tax years