(LAWFUEL) – Three Indonesian men will face Perth Magistrates Court charged with people smuggling after the alleged attempt to facilitate the arrival of 17 people to Australia rom Indonesia on 17 January 2009. A 20-year-old Indonesian man appeared today and a 24-year-old man and a 22- year-old man will appear in court tomorrow charged by […]

LawFuel – Legal Newswire – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that two former employees of the New York City Department of Education (“DOE”), NEIL CREMIN and IRA SOKOL, pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge ANDREW J. PECK in Manhattan federal court to

DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Linda Edwards, age 55, of Centennial, Colorado, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 41 months (3 ½ years) in federal prison for wire fraud, false statements, and false use of a Social Security number, announced Acting U.S. Attorney David M. Gaouette, Special Agent in

Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has completed the first in a series of disbursements from a Fair Fund that will return approximately $321 million to more than two million investors who were harmed by undisclosed market timing in the Alliance mutual funds complex. The

Speech by SEC Chairman: Address to Practicing Law Institute’s 2009 SEC Speaks by Chairman Mary L. Schapiro U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Ronald Reagan International Trade Center Washington, D.C. February 6, 2009 Thank you for that kind introduction, Linda [Thomsen]. It is great to be with you today and to see so many familiar faces.

Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro announced today that David M. Becker will return to the agency later this month as its General Counsel and Senior Policy Director. Mr. Becker previously served as SEC General Counsel from January 2000 to May 2002 after joining the SEC

Release No. 59365 / February 6, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The U.S. 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 BIH Corporation (“BIH”), of Fort Myers, Florida at 9:30 a.m. EST on February 6, 2009, and

DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Christina Elizabeth Szele, age 35, of Woodside, New York, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 5 years probation for interference with a JetBlue flight crew, Acting U.S. Attorney David M. Gaouette, and FBI Special Agent in Charge James Davis announced today. Szele was ordered