TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that a South Florida man was arrested today for his participation in one of the largest Medicaid fraud schemes broken up in the past few years. Wilber Bherviz, 40, of Ft. Lauderdale, ran a nationwide drug ring with his brother […]

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – A Mexican Mafia member who controlled Hispanic street gangs that operated across Orange County was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to violating federal racketeering and narcotics laws. Peter Ojeda, 64, of La Habra, was sentenced this afternoon by United States

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced an agreement with Pinnacle Group, LLC to provide for redress tenants who may have been overcharged excessive rents in rentstabilized apartments owned or managed by Pinnacle. Pinnacle is one of the largest owners of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City, owning more

BOSTON- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Legal Jobs -Foley Hoag LLP announced the arrival of Kevin Smith as the firm’s first Chief Financial Officer. As the firm’s CFO, Mr. Smith will have oversight of the firm’s finance, accounting and treasury operations. Mr. Smith began his career at HP Hood Inc. in their Management Training

NEW YORK- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network -The new issue of ALM’s Corporate Counsel® magazine, out today, provides the most detailed analysis yet reported on how ex-Hewlett-Packard general counsel Ann Baskins could have —and failed — to stop the spying scandal that rocked HP and resulted in criminal indictments of the company’s chairman and a

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Jeremy Christian Brickner, 30, was indicted on December 7, 2006, on two counts of impersonating an agent of the United States in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 913. Mr. Brickner allegedly misrepresented himself as an immigration

NEW YORK- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Legal Jobs -The National Law Journal® today announced the selection of litigator and high-profile defense attorney Theodore V. Wells Jr as its 2006 “Lawyer of the Year.” Wells, who is preparing to defend I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in a trial scheduled for Jan. 16, is co-chairman of

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –Davis Polk & Wardwell is pleased to announce that Erin Cho, George Hacket, Mark Lehmkuhler, James McClammy, Christopher Schell, David Toscano and Erika White have been elected Counsel to the firm as of December 1, 2006. Ms. Cho is Counsel in the firm’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits

Monday 18 December 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Mr James (Jim) Selim, the former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited, was today committed in the Balmain Local Court in Sydney to face four charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The charges relate to the