LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire SANTA ANA, Calif. – A New Orleans man who was a special agent with the FBI for over a decade was convicted of several federal charges related to a scheme to commit a home-invasion robbery at a residence he thought was a drug “stash house.” A federal jury this morning returned […]

Prominent California Law Firm Adds Additional Talent to its Business / Complex Litigation Practice Group LOS ANGELES (March 18, 2009 – LAWFUEL) — Attorney Vicky Pham has joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP’s Los Angeles office as an associate in the firm’s Business / Complex Litigation practice group. As part of the firm’s Business

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the auditors of Bernard Madoff’s broker-dealer firm with committing securities fraud by representing that they had conducted legitimate audits, when in fact they had not. In its complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, the SEC alleges that from 1991 through

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – The United States has reached a settlement with three Tucson cardiologists, Richard A. Cohn, M.D., Lee Goldberg, M.D., and Timothy M. Marshall, M.D. The United States contended that from January 2007 to October 2007, the three cardiologists submitted claims for payment to the Medicare Program in violation of the physician self-referral laws,

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Randy T. French, 52, and Sheila T. French, 42, of Kingman, Ariz. and formerly of Lake Havasu City, Ariz., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to Conspiracy and Introducing Misbranded Drugs into Interstate Commerce. As part of their guilty pleas, the Frenches admitted to U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake that they

DALLAS/HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – Seventeen attorneys from Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP have earned selection to the 2009 listing of Texas Rising Stars. Earning Rising Stars honors from Dallas are partners Christopher Converse, Business/Corporate; Michael Cooley, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights; William David Dunn, Business Litigation; John Eliason, Tax; Barry Golden, Antitrust Litigation; Brett Lamb, Construction Litigation; Colin

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Stephen Paul Babb, 22, of Yuma, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to five years in federal prison. Babb pleaded guilty on July 22, 2008, to one count of Possession of Child Pornography. Throughout 2007 while Babb resided in Yuma, he exchanged in excess of 1800 child

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Orin Ray Antone, 34, of Scottsdale, Ariz. and a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Tribe, was sentenced yesterday to 37 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia. Antone pleaded guilty on January 6, 2009 to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. On August 20, 2007, Antone

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP (www.bryancave.com) announced today that Charles A. Zielinski has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as Counsel and will focus his practice on regulatory and antitrust issues in the energy industry. “Chuck is a talented attorney whose experience will be an invaluable asset