Attorney Accused in Giant Ponzi Scheme
BOISE (CN) - The court-appointed trustee for the collapsed DBSI Realty and affiliates claims in court that the company's general counsel, Mark Ellison, was involved in a massive Ponzi scheme that...
View ArticleFeds Say Worker Stole $56K from Charity
ALBUQUERQUE (CN) - Federal prosecutors charged a 49-year-old woman with stealing more than $56,000 from her employer, a charity.
View ArticleRecidivists Did It Again, Uncle Sam Says
DALLAS (CN) - Three recidivist felons rolled people for $1.5 million in a phony Oklahoma oil well venture, federal prosecutors said.
View ArticlePrincipal Claims Daily News Defamed Him
JAMAICA, N.Y. (CN) - A Catholic school principal claims in court that he was fired after the New York Daily News defamed him in a series of articles that falsely accused him of "white supremacist...
View ArticleFeds Break Up Butt-Smuggling Ring
CHICAGO (CN) - Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged 10 people, including a police officer, with ducking state and county taxes by buying more than 100 million unstamped cigarettes for more than...
View ArticleBoss of the Day
OMAHA (CN) - A woman claims in court that her insurance agent-boss sexually pawed and harassed her, annoyed her with "jokes" about people with AIDS, and fired her after reading a private email in...
View ArticleAgency Says SEC Is Afraid of the Big Boys
WASHINGTON (CN) - The SEC wants to shut down a small, independent ratings agency, though the SEC "condoned, excused, remained silent" or "very gently and gingerly reprimanded the large firms for...
View ArticleGreens Go to Bat for Bighorn Sheep
BOISE (CN) - The U.S. Forest Service's misinterpretation of a federal law that prevents further closure of Western forest land to domestic sheep grazing is killing and endangering wild bighorn...
View ArticleApple Claims HTC Blew Off Enforcement Order
WASHINGTON (CN) - HTC imports and sells Android phones that use software the International Trade Commission has found infringe on Apple patents, Apple claims in an emergency enforcement complaint...
View ArticleDeath Valley Road May Not Even Be There
FRESNO, Calif. (CN) - Ruling that "if nobody built it, and nobody came, it was never there," a federal judge denied Inyo County's claim to a little-traveled road in Death Valley, a road so remote...
View ArticleBaby in the Court; Mom Wins Case
DALLAS (CN) - An Austin attorney, unhappy that a judge denied her request for a continuance due to maternity leave, brought her baby to a jury trial this week.
View ArticleMuslims Sue NYC for Targeted Snooping
NEWARK (CN) - The New York Police Department has been infiltrating and spying on New Jersey Muslims-in mosques, at their jobs, in stores and restaurants, even in elementary schools-simply because...
View ArticleEmployees of the Month
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (CN) - Suspecting a man of loitering, convenience store workers chased him into a restroom and forced him to eat vomit they found on the floor there, the man claims in court.
View ArticleVeterans Claim Insurer Shortchanges Them
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - USAA Casualty Insurance and affiliates target military veterans with a fraudulent file review system that deprives them of medical coverage for auto accidents, two vets claim...
View ArticleGoogle Accused of Patent Infringement
HOUSTON (CN) - Google Docs and Google Drive products violate a software company's patented caching technology, which speeds up data processing for networked computers, SuperSpeed LLC claims in...
View ArticleFutzing With the Books Wasn't Securities Fraud
(CN) - A finance executive did commit securities fraud by recording a sham transaction to float his struggling company through a cash-flow problem, the 11th Circuit ruled.
View ArticleSuction-Dredge Miners Sue California
YREKA, Calif. (CN) - Suction-dredge miners claim in court that California has effectively banned the "the only practicable method" of taking "commercially significant amounts of gold" from rivers.
View ArticleThree Attorneys Looking at Hard Time
MANHATTAN (CN) - Three attorneys and a former attorney today agreed to cough up $30 million and pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and bank fraud in a $66 mortgage fraud scheme...
View ArticleActor Kevin Costner Testifies in Fraud Case
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - Actor Kevin Costner opened up on the stand Thursday to fight claims that he shut out investors like fellow actor Stephen Baldwin while selling BP an oil-separating device in the...
View ArticleViaje de Rose - Week 2
SANTA ELENA DE UAIREN, Venezuela - My second full day at Aldeas de Paz was packed with everything from English-teaching to salsa-dancing to arepa-munching.
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