Abu Dhabi – LAWFUEL – DLA Piper is pleased to announce that it has moved into its permanent offices at Al Bateen in Abu Dhabi. DLA Piper opened in Abu Dhabi, its second office in the United Arab Emirates, earlier this year and already has a team comprising four partners and eight lawyers. Real estate

WASHINGTON – LawFuel – Legal Announcements Daily – Four former National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) executives have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to deceive investors about the financial health of NCFE, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart of the Southern District of Ohio announced today. NCFE,

TUCSON, Ariz. (LAWFUEL) – Walter Carnes Stevens, 82, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., was sentenced in Tucson today to 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins. Stevens pleaded guilty on November 7, 2007, to Possession of Child Pornography. Stevens came to the attention of authorities in August 2006 when several videotapes were

Bureau of Prisons employees cleared of wrongdoing in the same case TUCSON, Ariz. – LawFuel – Legal Newswire Service – Tristin Napoleon Watson, 24, of Maricopa, Ariz., was sentenced here yesterday to six months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson. Watson pleaded guilty on May 22, 2008, to making false

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) – Four former National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) executives have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to deceive investors about the financial health of NCFE, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney Gregory G. Lockhart of the Southern District of Ohio announced today. NCFE, formerly based in Dublin, Ohio,

(LAWFUEL) – Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYLER J. LUNN, 28, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Mark R. Kravitz in New Haven to five months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, the first five months of which

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (LAWFUEL) – Since the horrific attack on students at Columbine High School in 1999, Americans have become all too familiar with school shooting incidents, from Jonesboro, Arkansas to Red Lake, Minnesota, and the worst such recorded incident in U.S. history at the Virginia Tech Campus, where one gunman killed 32 students and

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — Individuals and organizations with 25 or more trucks, tractors or other heavy vehicles used on highways now are required to make their excise tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service electronically, rather than by paper. Form 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return, is used to report and pay highway-use excise taxes.

Linda Chatman Thomsen Director, Division of Enforcement U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Washington, D.C. August 7, 2008 Good morning. I am Linda Thomsen, the Director of the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission. With me today are some of the members of a terrific team of talented and dedicated staff members. We