During the Great Depression, which peaked between 1932 and 1933, some 6,000 street vendors walked the streets of New York City in 1930 trying to sell apples for 5 cents each. Here are…
NY Businessman Who Tried to Hide Income from IRS Convicted of Filing False Tax Returns
WASHINGTON — A New York businessman who tried to hide income from his construction company was convicted in U.S. District Court of filing false tax returns for his corporation and is now facing…
Feds Want to Stop Ohio Youth Services from Putting Mentally Ill Boys in Juvenile Correction Facilities
OHIO — The U.S. Department of Justice today sought a temporarily restraining order against the Department of Youth Services from putting boys with mental health needs in its juvenile correction facilities, according…
The Irishman, Twitter and the Kumbala Murders
By Raul Hernandez The Irishman still has a sense of humor but doesn’t go out much, anymore. Ken Flynn is 80, lives in Dallas and was a newspaper reporter for more than…
Defendants, Including Two Doctors, Convicted of $97 Million in Medicare Fraud
HOUSTON – A U.S. District Court jury on Wednesday convicted two owners of a former Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care P.A., several of its employees and others of Medicare fraud scheme,…
A Swiss Banking and Investment Adviser plead Guilty to Helping U.S. Citizens Avoid Taxes
VIRGINIA – A Swiss citizen plead guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to help U.S. citizens avoid paying taxes to the IRS by hiding their cash in secret foreign accounts,…
Women Aren’t From Venus After All, Recent Studies Show
“Popular culture tells us that women and men’s brains are just different. It’s true that male and female hormones affect brain development differently, and imaging studies have found brain differences in the…
Three Defendants Plead Guilty to Hate Crimes Involving a White Man and Black Woman
CALIFORNIA — A 33-year-old man plead guilty today in U.S. District Court for his role in attacking a white man and a black woman at a convenience store in Marysville, California, according to…
Englishman Sentenced to 16 Years for Traveling to Ohio to Have Sex With a Minor
OHIO – A resident of the United Kingdom was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 16 years in prison for traveling from England to Ohio in 2011 to have sex with a minor,…
Inmate Plead Guilty to Murdering a U.S. Corrections Officer With a Shank
CALIFORNIA – An inmate plead guilty today in U.S. District Court to murdering a 22-year-old U.S. corrections officer who was attacked and repeatedly stabbed with an eight-inch homemade shank in 2008, federal…
Florida Hospital Agrees to Pay $85 Million for False Billings; Whistlerblower Will Get $20.8 Million
FLORIDA – A Florida hospital agreed to pay $85 million as part of a settlement for billing Medicare for certain services by physicians who have a financial relationship with the hospital, officials announced…
Why Do We Say That a Lawyer “Passed the Bar?”
Why do we say that a graduating lawyer has “passed the bar”? To control rowdiness, a wooden bar was built across early courtrooms to separate the judge, lawyers, and other principle players…