LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners announced on May 20 an agreement to acquire Alltel Corp. for $71.50 in cash per share, or approximately $27.5 billion (including debt), which represents a 23% premium over Alltel’s closing share price prior to December 2006 media reports of the potential deal. […]

23 May 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council (the “Council”) has appointed Raj De to the Council’s Board of Advisors. A lawyer in the Washington, DC office of the international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, De will bring an impressive range of

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, announced that defendants James Settembrino, Lee Samuel, Bernardo Susi, Charles Bohn and Benjamin Goss were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit mail fraud in

LAWFUEL – The SEC prevailed in the first case to go to trial involving the abuse of so-called finite insurance to commit securities fraud. The case involved a round-trip insurance transaction between Brightpoint and AIG that was designed to enable Brightpoint, an Indiana company, to conceal a substantial loss and inflate its net income. The

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – The Class Actions Lawsuit –Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/optionable/) today announced that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Optionable Inc. (“Optionable” or the “Company”) (OTCBB: OPBL)

LOS ANGELES- LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Dan Zohar and his client, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), were recently instrumental in persuading California State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to hold a hearing, anticipated for later this year, in San Francisco, CA. to determine whether Allstate Insurance Company (NYSE: ALL) will

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – TALLAHASSEE, FL – As Floridians and citizens across the country are faced with dramatically increasing prices at the gas pump, Attorney General Bill McCollum today filed a lawsuit against a Panhandle company and its president alleging charges of gasoline price fixing. Ryan E. Phillips and his company, Fill-Ups Food

Parker Waichman Alonso Mark LLP are Investigating Numerous Claims for Injuries Sustained as a Result of Gadolinium Based Contrast Agent Injections Used During MRI Scans The Law Firm Has Been Contacted by a Number of Individuals Who Sustained Serious Kidney Problems as a result of Gadolinium Based Injections Lawfuel – the Law Newswire – NEW

Lawfuel – the Law Newswire – New York – May 25, 2007 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Glacéau in The Coca-Cola Company’s agreement to acquire Energy Brands, Inc., known as Glacéau, and its full range of fast-growing, enhanced water brands, including vitaminwater®, for $4.1 billion in cash. Glacéau, the creator and leader of

Former Bank Insider Will Pay At Least $2.75 Million In Restitution A West Los Angeles mortgage banker has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges in a massive mortgage fraud scam that caused more than $18.5 million in losses to banks, including his former employer. This afternoon in United States District Court in Los