Online gambling operator BETonSPORTS Plc pleaded guilty to U.S. racketeering charges and agreed to cooperate in a case against the company’s founder and other co-defendants, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, Reuters reported. BETonSPORTS admitted to a “pattern of racketeering acts,” including mail and wire fraud, operating an illegal gambling business and money-laundering, U.S. Attorney Catherine […]

For nearly a decade, Dr. Jack Kevorkian waged a defiant campaign to help other people kill themselves, FOX news reports. The retired pathologist left bodies at hospital emergency rooms and motels and videotaped a death that was broadcast on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” His actions prompted battles over assisted suicide in many states. But as he

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – Skadden, Arps represented Coca-Cola Co. in its acquisition of Energy Brands Inc. for $4.1 billion in cash. Energy Brands’ products, sold under the name Glaceau, include Vitaminwater and other enhanced water beverages. Skadden also represented Coca-Cola in its acquisition of Fuze Beverage in February.

LawFuel – Actress Lindsay Lohan is now in trouble, following the problems faced by friend Paris Hilton, with a drunk in charge offence reported on Saturday. Drugs, including cocaine, were believed to have been found at the scene. Lohan, 20, and two other people were in her 2005 Mercedes SL-65 when it crashed on Sunset

LAWFUEL – Family insists sighting of a man seen ‘with child in his arms’ on the night of the four-year-old’s abduction is ‘significant and relevant’, the Independent Newspaper reports. The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann welcomed a fresh police appeal for help yesterday, insisting that the sighting of a man on the night of

HAYWARD, Calif – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. (OTC: IPXL) today announced that patent infringement litigation pertaining to its generic version of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin® (oxycodone HCl extended-release) Tablets has been dismissed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York pursuant to a settlement between

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Cheating at cards has been as old as card – but charges by federal grand juries against two dozen people who used bribes, transmitters and card counters to cheat casinos has taken cheating to a whole new level. George Lee and Tien Duc Vu were riding a major winning streak. During four visits to the

LAWFUEL – Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, in the middle of a gut-wrenching restructuring, lost a high-profile Chicago partner and revenue generator to a competitor, the Chicago Tribune reports. Alan Salpeter, a trial lawyer who has represented major banks and accounting firms, notified the firm Friday that he is moving to the Chicago office of