LawFuel Legal Newswire Service – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that IHAB TARTIR, 35, an immigration lawyer based in Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States Department of Homeland Security by helping others

LawFuel.com – Two former client advisers were today handed custodial sentences, fully suspended in the Melbourne County Court after being found guilty of market manipulation following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) into the trading of Genetic Technology Ltd (GTG) shares. Mr Rocco Musumeci, 28, of Rockdale, New South Wales, was

Moscow, 15 February 2008 – Baker & McKenzie Partner Vladimir Khvalei from the Firm’s Moscow office and head of the CIS Dispute Resolution Practice Group, was recently appointed to the Board of the International Arbitration Court (IAC) of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.. “We are proud of Vladimir’s appointment, and feel that his

LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire – CHICAGO — Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is pleased to announce thatMichael Y. Scudder, Jr., a White House legal adviser in the George W. Bush administration, is joining the firm’s Chicago office as a litigation partner. At the White House from 2007 through January 2009, Mr. Scudder advised

TUCSON, Arizona. (LAWFUEL) – On February 11, 2009, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a sixty-eight count indictment against ten defendants for violations of Conspiracy and False Statements in the Acquisition of Firearms from Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. The defendants named in the indictment are Aldo Arizmendiz, Joel Arizmendiz, Jose Omar Arizmendiz, Juan Carlos

HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – Mike Stafford, the former Harris County Attorney who spent his last 22 years in public service legal positions, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as of counsel in the firm’s Litigation and Trial Practice Group in Houston. Mr. Stafford’s practice will focus on general and complex commercial litigation and public policy. For

DALLAS (LAWFUEL) – Attorney Michael Lowenberg, general counsel at the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, has been selected to a two-year term as chairman of the Dallas County Historical Commission. The Dallas County Historical Commission is a volunteer board appointed by the Dallas County Commissioners Court to advise the Court on matters pertaining

(LAWFUEL) – A joint Australian Federal Police (AFP) and NSW Crime Commission (NSWCC)investigation has led to the arrest of a 29-year-old Bondi man for the alleged importation of 100 kilograms of cocaine. A search warrant was executed at the man’s residential address this morning where he was arrested and charged by AFP officers for the

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Marcus Dozzell, 34, of Henderson, Nevada was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for his conviction in April 2008 for leading a mortgage fraud scheme in Phoenix, Arizona, San Diego, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Co-defendant Lutrell Sharpe was sentenced to 88 months in prison on January 29, 2009. Sharpe pleaded