Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was impeached for allegedly taking money and gifts from attorneys before his court and for lying in a bankruptcy filing.
“Judge Porteous is one of a kind and it is time for him to receive his comeuppance,” said Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
