PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Dorothy Mae Endfield, 50, of Cibecue, Ariz. and an employee at the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Cibecue Commercial Center, pleaded guilty today to Embezzlement From a Tribal Organization before U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll. Endfield admitted that while she was an assistant store manager for the Commercial Center, she stole approximately […]
LawFuel.com – Law Announcements Daily – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MICHELE M. LEONHART, Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced today the arrest of HAJI JUMA KHAN, a/k/a “Abdullah,” a/k/a “Haji Juma Khan Mohammadhasni,” an Afghan drug trafficker charged with
Fees could reach a record $1.4 billion for lawyers, accountants and other professionals working on the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history. The biggest winner will be New York-based law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Lehman’s adviser, with an estimated $209 million in fees, said Lynn LoPucki, who teaches bankruptcy law
LawFuel.com – Legal Announcements – A doctor has been indicted for fraudulently billing Medicare for approximately $2.3 million in physical therapy services. The indictment, which was returned Wednesday afternoon by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana, alleges that the “physical therapy” was performed by unlicensed individuals without any supervision by the doctor, consisted only
LawFuel – Legal Announcement Service – Attached is the IRS-Criminal Investigation press release regarding today’s guilty plea entered by Asha Delilah Lenard: Lenard, who was employed by co-defendant Anthony Pendleton, owner of Payless Tax Services, located in Inglewood, California, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims in
A Los Angeles County man has pleaded guilty to charges related to a $64 million Ponzi scheme that bilked more than 70 investors in California and Texas with false promises of huge returns from investments in a life insurance pool that would be marketed to members of African-American churches in South Los Angeles. Curtis D.
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — The Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers who are missing more than 279,000 economic stimulus checks totaling about $163 million and more than 104,000 regular refund checks totaling about $103 million that were returned by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors. “People across the country are missing tax
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that PHILIP WONG, a Canadian-based stock promoter who pleaded guilty earlier this year to conspiring to commit securities fraud and
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) – Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today honored the nation’s Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor recipients during a special ceremony at the Department of Justice. Earlier today, President George W. Bush presented the Medals of Valor during a White House ceremony in the Oval Office. The Medal of Valor is the highest
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Testimony Concerning the Role of Federal Regulators: Lessons from the Credit Crisis for the Future of Regulation by Chairman Christopher Cox U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform United States House of Representatives Thursday, October 23, 2008 (LAWFUEL) Chairman Waxman, Ranking Member Davis, and Members of the Committee, thank
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