SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that a federal grand jury in San Francisco yesterday indicted James Winzler, of Brentwood, Calif., with embezzling approximately $107,000 from the GKO & Associates 401(k) Savings and Profit Sharing Plan. These charges are the result of an […]

Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2006 – The Commission today voted to propose several new rules that are intended to provide additional protections to investors in hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles. The proposals include the following: Antifraud Provision under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. The proposal would make it a fraudulent, deceptive, or

Lawfuel.com’s Hot Files (reporting the latest celebrity litigation – sara evans, the bounty hunter, britney spears) reports from Defamer the public chiding received by “Girls Gone Wild” jailbait magnate Joe Francis. The childing was delivered by a Florida Judge along with some community service was added to the $1.6 million in fines that his company

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network — Powell Goldstein LLP is pleased to announce that it has ranked first nationally for the highest volume of M&A Banking Deals, according to a report released by SNL Financial and published in the ABA Banking Journal. As of October 19, 2006, the firm had

Engineers Allegedly Ordered Crew Members to Use “Magic Pipe” to Bypass Pollution Control Equipment SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Artemios Maniatis, 55, and Dimitrios Georgakoudis, 29, both Greek nationals, were indicted yesterday on one count of violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from

Los Angeles, CA – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – A federal grand jury returned second superseding indictment this afternoon adding new charges against individuals who had already been charged in two previous indictments. The grand jury charged seven new counts of money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section

Lawfuel.com’s lead story reports on the win by New Zealand lawyer Gordon Bennett for the Bushmen of the Kalahari. The legal battle – the longest in Botswana’s history – has been seen as a major test case in establishing the fundamental rights of indigenous people. Lawfuel.com – Law News Network. The Net’s largest, pure law

Lawsuit Claims Telos and its Current Auditor, Goodman & Company, Knowingly Deprived Shareholders of Tens of Millions of Dollars FAIRFAX, Va.– LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –The Fairfax County Circuit Court of Virginia ordered Telos Corporation and its former auditor, PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, to produce documents relating to Telos’s public redeemable securities in a $51 million

Survey Indicates that Fortune 1000 Companies Seek to Take Control of Discovery Processes SEATTLE– LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network –Attenex® Corp., a leading provider of e-discovery software for corporations and their law firms, and Michael A. Clark, industry analyst and principal of EDDix LLC, today announced survey results on the critical e-discovery issues