R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Hal Robbins, Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Division, announced today that defendant Clive Brown, 59, of Miramar, Florida, was convicted and sentenced today in federal District Court in West Palm Beach on a charge that he […]
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LawFuel – Legal Jobs & Newswire – TALLAHASSEE, FL Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a former vice president for one of the nations largest subprime lenders has been convicted by a Polk County jury for operating a mortgage fraud scheme that spanned more than two years and involved loans in Hillsborough, Lee, Pinellas
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced today it is laying off 96 lawyers in a second round of job cuts as the Wall Street firm continues to cope with the ongoing effects of the credit crunch. W. Christopher White, the firm’s chairman, says the cuts will be in its capital markets and global finance groups, which
(LAWFUEL) – A reality check – positive case law on registering your brands for the goods and services that count Common sense has prevailed. The UK trade mark registration system should from now on allow for shopping centre owners to register their valuable brands as trade marks in relation to the actual services that they
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New Hampshire-based Pax World Management Corp. with violating investment restrictions in socially responsible mutual funds that investors were told would not contain securities issued by companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco or gambling products. The SEC alleges that Pax World,
Washington, D.C., July 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged E*Trade Clearing LLC and E*Trade Securities LLC (collectively, E*Trade) for failing to comply with an anti-money laundering rule that requires broker-dealers to verify the identities of their customers and document their procedures for doing so. The SEC’s order finds that E*Trade
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Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has arrived at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Dr Karadzic landed at Rotterdam airport in the Netherlands shortly after 0600 GMT and was transferred to the court complex where he faces trial on charges of genocide. “Radovan Karadzic was today transferred in to the Tribunal’s
LawFuel – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, announced that today two members of a former paramilitary and drug-trafficking group known as the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC), defendants Javier Lindo, a/k/a “El
LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANGELO NICOSIA, an associate of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra, was found guilty today of extortion and extortion conspiracy after a one-week jury trial before the Honorable SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN.
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MINNEAPOLIS, July 29, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Charles H. Johnson & Associates announces that a class action has been commenced against SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P. (“SemGroup”) (Nasdaq:SGLP), and certain affiliated parties, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of investors in SemGroup on the February 13, 2008 secondary
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