SANTA ANA, California – A former employee of Fannie Mae in Irvine has been found guilty of federal fraud charges related to bribes and kickbacks she took from brokers in exchange for Fannie Mae real estate listings and her approval of discounted sales of Fannie Mae-owned properties. Shirene Hernandez, 46, of Corona, was found guilty
Robinson + Cole – The 2019 calendar year had a rough beginning with several massive data breaches. Now, just this week, over 600 million account details were stolen from 16 different websites: Dubsmash MyFitnessPal MyHeritage ShareThis HauteLook Animoto EyeEm 8fit Whitepages Fotolog 500px Armor Games BookMate CoffeeMeetsBagel Artsy DataCamp The account details being sold on
Skadden received Law360’s Practice Group of the Year awards in five categories: Benefits, Energy, M&A, Tax and White Collar. The awards “honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major deals that resonated throughout the legal industry in the past year.”
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Manhattan art gallery owner MARY BOONE was sentenced to 30 months in prison for filing false tax returns as part of a multi-year tax fraud scheme that cost the U.S. Treasury over $3 million. BOONE previously pled guilty
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LawFuel – Law Marketing & Management News – QBE North America, an integrated specialist insurer, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with LawyerGuard to deliver professional liability coverage to lawyers and address the unique legal malpractice exposures faced by law firms. This program focuses on law firms with 1-100 attorneys, targets a multitude of
Davis Polk Avi Gesser* Until recently, biometric privacy was a niche area of the law that had little application to most companies. But with the rapid growth in commercial biometric data collection, including voice samples, fingerprints, retina scans, and facial geometry, as well as some recent developments in the applicable case law, it’s probably time
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LOS ANGELES – A Las Vegas, Nevada, resident pleaded guilty today to engaging in a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of over $175,000 through the submission of fraudulent federal income tax returns submitted on behalf of his clients. Patrick Nathaniel McCall, 39, who operated in Murrieta, California, as a paid income tax return preparer
White & Case are only part way through their globe-girdling growth path but have now cross over the $2 billion mark in revenues, growing revenues by $246 million in 2018. An ALM report on the firm showed that revenue per lawyer jumped 7.8 percent to $954,000, and profits per equity partner increased 6.2 percent to
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Brenda Midson* One of New Zealand’s most notorious sexual misconduct cases re-emerged recently when a ringleader of the Roast Busters, a group of teenagers who were investigated five years ago for alleged sexual offences against underage girls, gave a television interview. The interview sparked outrage, and the broadcaster was criticised for providing a platform for the group’s leader, while
Ben Shepardson* Being a business owner is never easy. Whether you’re a law firm, a startup or a small business, you’ve got the unenviable task of standing out from a sea of competitors, and that means building a reputation for yourself. Yet a smaller business doesn’t always have the resources of more well-established ones. This
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