Colorado Attorney General Sues Two Big Foreclosure Law Firms for Fraud
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers sued two of the state’s biggest foreclosure law firms on Tuesday...
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Ex White House Attorney Convicted For Attempt to Murder
Former White House attorney John Michael Farren was convicted on Friday for attempting to murder his wife....
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Boehner Says Suit against Obama Required to Protect the Constitution
House Speaker John Boehner revealed on his official blog on Thursday that the House will initiate legal action...
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Ohio Attorney Found Guilty of Rape, Kidnapping and Sexual Battery
The high drama surrounding the trial of Ohio attorney Javier Armengau came to a close for the moment as the...
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Ohio Lawyer Convicted of Child Porn Fighting to Save His Home
Last week, a form Ohio Department of Taxation lawyer, William Feldman of Upper Arlington, voluntarily resigned...
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Noted Attorney Charged With Prostitution
Judson Sutherland, an Austin lawyer, was netted in a nationwide sting on sex trafficking. The Austin Police...
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Florida Attorney Held for Fondling Boy Receives Bail
Pinellas, Florida, Attorney Robert Tankel had been held without bail from Tuesday to Friday last week on...
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Alabama Law for Expunging Criminal Records Will Come into Effect from July
An Alabama law meant for expunging criminal records of residents, who were charged but not convicted of any...
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Alabama Attorney Sentenced for Bilking Investors
A former attorney from Alabaster, Alabama was sentenced this week to six years in federal prison for bilking...
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Tax Attorney Goes to Jail for Not Filing Own Tax Returns
James P. Kleier, a tax attorney practicing in San Francisco, was sentenced to a year in federal prison this...
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Former U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald Defends against Fake Lien of $100 Billion
In a bizarre case, a woman, Cherron Phillips was found to have filed fake liens against several legal...
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Houston Ambulance Operator Sentenced to Eight Years for $2.4 Million Health Care Fraud
Gwendolyn Climmons-Johnson, 54, owner and operator of a Houston area ambulance company was sentenced on Friday...
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Former Calumet County DA’ License Suspended for Sexting
Ex-Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz’s law license was suspended earlier this month by the...
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Federal Judges Defeat Salary Freeze and Gain Five-Figure Raises
After fighting multiple congressional legislations dating from the 1990s, which were passed in response to...
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Pa. Deputy Atty. General Adrian King Rejoins Ballard Spahr
Law firm Ballard Spahr announced on Thursday that Adrian R. King, Jr., the First Deputy Attorney General of...
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Charles Hynes, Former Brooklyn DA Accused of Misusing Funds
An investigation inquiry conducted by the New York City Department has accused former Brooklyn District...
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Maplewood Attorney among Nine Charged For Smuggling Contraband into Federal Jail
An attorney, Brian Kapalin, 66, of Maplewood, New Jersey and eight other people including two corrections...
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U.S. Supreme Court Disbars Pennsylvania’s Don Bailey
Controversial civil rights attorney Don Bailey was disbarred from practicing law by the U.S. Supreme Court on...
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Kathryn Keneally Leaves DOJ Following Credit-Suisse Plea Deal
The U.S. Department of Justice’s top tax enforcement official, Kathryn Keneally, has announced that she...
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Rothstein Law Firm Lawyer Christina Kitterman Sentenced to Five Years
Christina Kitterman, a former lawyer of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler was sentenced last week to...
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Former Attorney Gets Probation for Cheating Orphan Boy
Though she could have been sent to prison for 4 ½ years, former Upper Arlington attorney Lindsey T. Burt...
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Ninety Individuals Charged in Approx $260 Million Medicare Fraud
The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, May 13, that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force had charged 90...
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Florida Doctor Sentenced for Concealing Millions of Dollars from IRS
Dr. Patricia Lynn Hough, of Englewood, Florida was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Court Judge John...
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Delaware Deputy Attorney General Arrested for Raping Boy
Daniel Simmons, a Delaware deputy attorney general, was arrested last Friday and charged with the rape of a...
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DOJ Files Suit against Hawaii for Employee Sexual Harassment and Retaliation
The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week the filing of a lawsuit against the state of Hawaii and its...
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SEC Punishes NYSE and Two Affiliates with $4.5 Million Penalty
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced an enforcement action last week against the New York...
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South Florida Attorney Sent Directly to Jail from Sentencing Court
South Florida attorney Douglas Bates was sentenced to prison this week for his role in Scott Rothstein’s...
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Federal Court Upholds New Legislative District Maps for Arizona
A federal court in Arizona refused to accept that the remapping of the state’s 30 legislative districts had...
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Federal Court Rejects Settlement between SEC and Van Glider
Last week, U.S. Senior District Judge John Kane published a seven-page opinion rejecting a settlement deal...
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Federal Agents Raid Stafford Law Co. Linked to Aliza Sherman
Federal agents raided a Cleveland law firm, Stafford & Stafford’s, later renamed as Stafford Law Co., early...
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