OHIO A federal jury found a 76-year-old man guilty Wednesday for his role in a seven-million-dollar telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the U.S. from call centers in Costa Rica,…
“Cowboy Gun Bandits” Sentenced to Decades in Federal Prison
LOS ANGELES Two men dubbed the “Cowboy Gun Bandits” by the FBI for using a large-caliber revolver during a series of robberies that targeted gas station convenience stores and a bank have…
ABA: Lawyer Shortage Might Result in Some Areas Licensing Legal Technicians
BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION JOURNAL MAY 28, 2019, 7:00 AM The New Mexico Supreme Court has appointed a work group to consider whether the state should allow licensed legal…
Just Saying: Facebook and the Dream Merchants
BY RAUL HERNANDEZ [email protected] FACEBOOK IN THE LAND OF STUPID Facebook is a boil on the world’s a**. However, let’s face it, we incessantly post on Facebook. We share, shock and…
ICE: 31 Arrests, Mostly Criminal Suspects, in Five-Day NYC
ICE arrests 31 in 5-day New York City metropolitan-area enforcement surge NEW YORK – Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York arrested 31 during…
Man Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for $4 Million Medicaid Fraud
NORTH CAROLINA A federal judge sentenced a man to prison today for health care fraud related to the submission of false claims to Medicaid and for tax evasion, according to authorities. U.S….
President/CEO of Investment Co. Sentenced to 50 Years for $1.5 Billion Ponzi Scheme
LAS VEGAS The former president and CEO of MRI International Inc. or MRI, a purported investment company and medical collections business located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Tokyo, Japan, was sentenced to…
ICE: Human Smuggler Sentenced to 22 years for Scheme Resulting in 2 Deaths
MCALLEN, TEXAS A South Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to 21 years in federal prison for his role in a human smuggling scheme resulting in the deaths of two smuggled aliens, according…
Seventy-Year-Old Man Sentenced to 15 Months for Hate Crime
OREGON Benjamin Jaramillo Hernandez, 70, of Eugene, Oregon, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison for committing a hate crime targeting St. Mary Catholic Church in Eugene in September 2018…
Prison Inmate Sentenced to Eight Years for Threatening to Murder Federal Judge
FRESNO, CALIF A federal judge this week sentenced Cyrus Dennis Braswell, 57, to eight years and one month in prison for three counts of mailing threatening communications, federal officials announced Wednesday. On…
Lawyer Who Didn’t Practice Law for 2 Decades Removed from Death Penalty Case
Lawyer Remove from death penalty case BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS MAY 21, 2019, 10:37 AM CD Image from Shutterstock.com. A California lawyer who was appointed to represent a capital defendant after a longtime…
Former Georgia County Commissioner Indicted for Extortion and Bribery
GEORGIA A federal grand jury indicted former commissioner in DeKalb County, Georgia, for extorting bribe payments from a DeKalb County subcontractor, authorities announced Tuesday. Sharon Barnes Sutton, 59, of Stone Mountain, Georgia,…