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5 Lawyers Plead Guilty To DWI Scam

5 Lawyers Plead Guilty To DWI Scam

A group of North Carolina lawyers plead guilty to running a scheme to “make drunken driving cases disappear.”
Four Johnston County defense attorneys and a former court clerk pleaded guilty Monday to illegally dismissing traffic cases, including citations for driving while impaired.
The lawyers, Chad Lee, 33, and Lee Hatch, 41, plead guilty to 10 counts of altering official case records, 10 [...]

January 27 2010 | Read More »

Florida Lawyer Pleads Guilty to $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme

Florida Lawyer Pleads Guilty to $1.2 Billion Ponzi Scheme

A disbarred Florida lawyer  pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday to orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that scammed clients out of more than $1 billion. 
Scott Rothstein, 47, was a founder and the managing partner of the law firm of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler PA, who fled to Morocco in late October but returned to Florida in early November.
Rothstein [...]

January 27 2010 | Read More »

Florida Lawyer Charged In Running $1 Billion Ponzi Scheme

Florida Lawyer Charged In Running $1 Billion Ponzi Scheme

A Florida lawyer who was arrested today and turned over to the FBI, pleaded not guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than $1 billion. 
Several hours after his arrest, lawyer Scott Rothstein – the once high-flying attorney who courted politicians and celebrities, pleaded not guilty in federal court to five counts, including [...]

December 1 2009 | Read More »

Man Pleads Guilty To Driving His La-Z-Boy Chair, Drunk

Man Pleads Guilty To Driving His La-Z-Boy Chair, Drunk

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to a DWI when he went driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair after pounding down at least 8 beers.
In August 2008, Dennis Anderson, 62, blood alcohol content was 0.29, three times the legal limit, told the police he left a bar in his chair after enjoying the beer. Soon after [...]

October 22 2009 | Read More »

Lawyer To Be Sentenced Today In Hit-And-Run Case

Lawyer To Be Sentenced Today In Hit-And-Run Case

Lawyer and part-time traffic judge is to be sentenced today for intentionally causing a crash, leaving the scene and lying to police to avoid prosecution.
Last year, Melvin Neisner, 51, was convicted of slamming on his brakes and injuring a motorcyclist who was tailgating him. The victim in the case asked the judge to give Neisner [...]

October 14 2009 | Read More »

“Bad Daddy” Seeks Sex With Daughter On Facebook

“Bad Daddy” Seeks Sex With Daughter On Facebook

A man was arrested for allegedly used Facebook to find and proposition a 13-year old girl for sex, one of the men who called himself, “Bad Daddy,” was the girls own biological father.
John Forehand, who hasn’t had contact with his daughter in 10 years, discussed meeting her for sex, explaining in graphic details about various [...]

October 9 2009 | Read More »

‘Lawyer’ In Prison Indicted For Impersonating, A Lawyer

‘Lawyer’ In Prison Indicted For Impersonating, A Lawyer

A man who was convicted and sentenced for impersonating a lawyer has been arrested again, for the same thing, posing as a lawyer during a murder-for-hire trial.
Howard O. Kieffer, 54, once worked as executive director, but more importantly known as a capable attorney that specialized in federal sentencing and plea negotiations through the Santa Ana, [...]

October 9 2009 | Read More »

Mayor In Reelection Race Caught In Cross-Dressing Photo Scandal

Mayor In Reelection Race Caught In Cross-Dressing Photo Scandal

East-Cleveland Mayor who is running for reelection is now on the defense over images that appears to show him in drag, wearing high-heels, lingerie and a wig in overtly sexual poses.
Although it’s not illegal, Mayor Eric Brewer (D) is getting the kind of publicity that’s not the kind of thing he wants coming out [...]

September 25 2009 | Read More »

7 Medical Staff Suspended Over Facebook Game

7 Medical Staff Suspended Over Facebook Game

Seven doctors and nurses are accused by health officials for violating health, safety and infection control rules when they played a popular Facebook game.
The medical personnel participated in the “lying down game,” in which Facebook users post photos of themselves lying down flat, with their arms at their sides, in unlikely situations, reports the [...]

September 10 2009 | Read More »

Judge Indicted In Soliciting DWI Defendant In Exchange For Sex

Judge Indicted In Soliciting DWI Defendant In Exchange For Sex

A Texas Criminal Court-at-Law Judge is accused of soliciting a defendant in a driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) case for sexual favors.
The indictment accuses, Judge Donald W. Jackson, 59, offered to get a 27-year-old woman “a different attorney to get her case dismissed if she would be interested in the defendant and enter into a relationship with him [...]

August 28 2009 | Read More »