By James Nye PUBLISHED: 02:18 EST, 16 December 2013 | UPDATED: 06:32 EST, 16 December 2013 All but seven of Colorado’s 62-elected sheriff’s are refusing to enforce a law they have sworn to uphold by failing to enact universal… Read More ›
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Goldman Sachs rogue trader to be jailed seven years AFTER concealing an unauthorized $8.3 billion trading deal / For a whole 9 months
Matthew Taylor, 35, was sentenced Friday to nine months for wire fraud in 2007 U.S. District Judge William Pauley questioned why it took Goldman and the government so long to bring the misconduct to light Taylor had admitted in a… Read More ›
‘Death doctor’ accused of misdiagnosing cancer patients to scam millions out of Medicare a ‘serious risk’ to flee the country
Dr. Farid Fata will remain behind bars until trial after $9m bond revoked The oncologist ‘systematically defrauded Medicare by submitting false claims for services that were medically unnecessary,’ authorities say Woman claims her mother died of kidney failure after too… Read More ›
Public Defenders’ Rates Slashed by $15 an Hour
By MATT REYNOLDS (CN) – Sequestration has forced a $15 fee reduction for court-appointed defense lawyers for the first time since the Criminal Justice Act was passed in 1964, the U.S. judiciary said. As chairman of the U.S…. Read More ›
Court Scoffs at Light Sentence for CEO’s Fraud
By KEVIN KOENINGER CINCINNATI (CN) – The seven-day sentence given to a former CEO whose money-laundering scheme cost investors more $18 million was as “unreasonably low,” the 6th Circuit ruled. Michael Peppel was president, CEO… Read More ›
The former chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement South Florida gets nearly 6 years in prison over child porn
Broward Sheriff’s Office Anthony V. Mangione is shown in a booking photo. By NBCMiami.com MIAMI — The former chief of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement South Florida office has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison on a… Read More ›
Mass. judge approves sex-change for transgender prison inmate: Serving life in prison for murder
By Eric W. Dolan Tuesday, September 4, 2012 17:00 EDT A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday ordered the state’s Department of Correction to provide a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder with sex-change surgery. U.S. District Judge… Read More ›
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