COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A federal trial over a $100 million investors’ lawsuit against Venezuela includes allegations of fraud, hints of an international criminal conspiracy, and references to diamonds, German junk bonds and a mysterious house fire in Switzerland. At ...
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Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — A former business titan convicted more than a decade ago in a notorious corporate fraud case that featured headline-grabbing tales of excessive spending is now board chairman of a New York City nonprofit that helps ex-prisoners ...
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Read More »Fore v. Griffco of Wampee, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-124-15, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from the Workers’ Compensation Commission. On writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals. S.C. S. Ct. Holding: We improvidently granted certiorari to review the ...
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A legal battle over the debts allegedly owed by a shuttered law firm that specialized in debt collection is perhaps fated to have a few unusual twists. Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that the legal services company bringing ...
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Read More »ABC Legal Services, Inc. v. Korn Law Firm, P.A. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-127-15, 12 pp.) (Margaret Seymour, S.J.) 3:14-cv-04887; D.S.C. Holding: Plaintiff has alleged with sufficient particularity that defendant Hall, a non-lawyer employee of the defendant-law firm, defrauded plaintiff by ...
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Read More »COLUMBIA (AP) — The state Revenue Department is mailing some income tax refund checks this year rather than using direct deposit in an attempt to cut down on fraud. The Greenville News reported that agency officials said Monday they are ...
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Read More »A jury has been seated in the federal fraud trial of Williamsburg County Sheriff Michael Johnson.
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Read More »COLUMBIA — A former adoption agency official has pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by paying bribes to foreign officials and submitting fraudulent documents to the State Department for adoptions from Ethiopia. U.S. Attorney Bill ...
Read More »U.S. v. Weiss (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-01-0538, 23 pp.) (Hamilton, J.) No. 13-4039, June 6, 2014; USDC at Greensboro, N.C. (Schroeder, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: The 4th Circuit affirms a 185-month sentence for a defendant who pleaded guilty to wire ...
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WASHINGTON — The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an opportunity to dramatically change the landscape of securities fraud class action litigation by limiting, or perhaps overruling altogether, a decision upon which plaintiffs have relied for decades. During oral ...
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