SAN FRANCISCO –LAWFUEL – Law News Network , Law Jobs – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that a federal grand jury in San Francisco today indicted Dr. Bruce Barker on charges of perjury and making false statements to law enforcement officers in connection with his testimony at a federal jury trial involving gun

October 12, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Chadbourne & Parke LLP is representing Tenaska Power Fund, L.P. in the acquisition of 3,145 megawatts of natural gas-fired generation assets from Constellation Energy for approximately $1.6 billion in cash. The transaction, subject to closing adjustments, is expected to close before the end of 2006

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Former border inspector Michael Craig Anderson, 42, of Yuma, Ariz., was sentenced Wednesday afternoon in Federal District Court following a guilty plea to charges of conspiracy to import marijuana, bribery, money laundering and filing a false tax return. Judge David C. Campbell sentenced Anderson to nine years

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Law Jobs – The former chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Homestore.com, Inc. was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for piloting a scheme that artificially inflated the company’s on-line advertising in an attempt to make the company appear to be more profitable to

LawFuel.com’s Hot Files carries LA’s Defamer report that notwithstanding Liz Rosenberg’s smokescreen disavowals, it would appear that Madonna’s Mission of Mercy™ to the impoverished African nation of Malawi also doubled as a baby-shopping spree, as the AP is now reporting that the latter-day, cone-bra’d Christ figure has signed all the necessary paperwork to adopt a

Assets Frozen, Receiver Appointed in Atlanta-Based Scam Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed emergency securities fraud charges against an Atlanta promoter to halt a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $30 million from approximately 2,000 investors in fraudulent real estate development partnerships.

TORONTO (October 11, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Canada Law News – Stikeman Elliott LLP is pleased to announce the election of Mr. Pierre Raymond as Chair of the firm. Mr. Raymond succeeds Mr. Edward J. Waitzer, who has completed two terms as Chair and will continue his corporate law practice as a partner of the

DALLAS–LAWFUEL – US Legal News Daily –“It was recently disclosed that the personal data of hundreds of thousands of consumers may have been compromised as a result of a data security breaches at companies such as GE, Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, Boeing and Ameriprise Financial. In response, legal and technology services firm Scott &

CLEVELAND- LAWFUEL – US Legal News Network -Ulmer & Berne LLP announced today that one of its attorneys, Stephanie E. Kennedy, was appointed as Secretary to the Board of Directors for the Cleveland Entrepreneurship Preparatory School. The school, referred to as E-Prep, opened its doors for the first time this year on August 23, 2006