NEW YORK (AP) — A one-time corporate lawyer who cheated friends and relatives of life savings in a $5 million Ponzi scheme before writing a 16-page suicide note and jumping into the Hudson River was sentenced Thursday to five years ...

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A globe-trotting Kentucky lawyer at the center of an alleged scheme to defraud the federal government of more than $600 million in federal disability payments was described by prosecutors on Thursday as flight risk who should ...

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Under Seal 1 v. United States (In re Grand Jury Subpoena) (Lawyers Weekly No. 006-001-16, 12 pp.) (James Wynn Jr., J.) Appealed from W.D.N.C. (Max Cogburn Jr., J.) 4th Cir. Unpub. Holding: Two futures-traders’ communications with their lawyer were made ...

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Twin City Fire Insurance Co. v. Estrin (Lawyers Weekly No. 003-005-16, 32 pp.) (David Duncan, C.J.) 15-80039; B.S.C. Holding: Where a debtor used her position as a human resources executive to redirect job applicants to her family’s recruiting firm and ...

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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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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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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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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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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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