LAWFUEL – Legal News Daily – The Asset Forfeiture Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York has forfeited or reached agreements to forfeit more than $1.1 billion in calendar year 2007. The forfeitures stem from a variety of cases prosecuted by the Office, from corporate fraud cases to […]
US Attorney Seizes Record $1.1 Billion In 2007 Year Read More »
Orlando, Florida- LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell yesterday sentenced WILLIAM IREY, age 50, to seventeen-and-a-half years’ imprisonment, and a term of supervised release of life, for producing child pornography. IREY pled guilty on July 2, 2006. According to court documents, IREY traveled to Cambodia and took digital pictures
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WASHINGTON– LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire –The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), specializing in constitutional law, said today it is pleased that it was able to secure a victory for an Arizona college journalism student who faced discrimination – and a failing grade – because of her Christian faith and her reporting that included
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to legally define waterboarding as “torture” during Senate testimony Wednesday, although he acknowledged that if the interrogation technique were performed on him, he would personally “feel that it was.” During his first testimony since his November confirmation, Mukasey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it wouldn’t “be appropriate for me
LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Having conducted an in-depth second phase investigation, the European Commission last week cleared unconditionally the merger of Europe’s biggest copper producer, Norddeutsche Affinerie AG (NA), based in Hamburg, with Belgian copper producer Cumerio. International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised NA on the merger control aspects of this transaction.
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LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Morrison & Foerster advised the underwriters in Bank of America Corporation’s two securities offerings that will provide the bank and financial holding company with gross proceeds of $12.9 billion. The first, an offering of $6 billion of Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/25th interest in a share of Fixed-to-Floating
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LawFuel – John McCain’s win in Florida and Rudolph Giuliani’s impending concession, leaves Ron Paul the Republican libertarian a survivor whose chances have just improved. Although he has not won a primary, Ron Paul took 10 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucus, twice what Giuliani received. He took s3econd place in the Nevada
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LawFuel – Legal Newswire – The John McCain win for the Republican nomination in Florida will almost certainly lead to Rudolph Giuliani’s concession and endorsement of McCain as early as tomorrow. The win by McCain has made the race for the Republican nomination one between the senator from Arizona and Mitt Romney. However it will
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LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Fourteen members of a South Florida-based Bloods set with ties to the national Bloods criminal organization have been charged federally in connection with their illegal gang activities, announced R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of
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Brings Expertise in Dispute Resolution, Litigation New York, January 29, 2008 — LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke announced today that John Finnegan has joined the Firm as a partner in the insurance and reinsurance practice, based in the New York office. Mr. Finnegan, 50, joined Chadbourne from
