In a dramatic turn of events in the notorious Victoria Lindsay teen gang beating case, three of the eight teen age defendants in the case had all charges against them dropped and the prosecutor has no additional plans to charge them further.Victoria Lindsay is a 16-year-old Lakeland, Florida, cheerleader that was ambushed by a gang of her classmates and severely beaten until she lost consciousness
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba - A military court at this remote U.S. outpost is in the process of a grinding hearing in which five Sept. 11 plotters are being charged with murdering 2,973 Americans. It’s the first time Al Qaeda “military commander” Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, facilitator Ramzi Binalshibh, USS Cole mastermind Walid Ba Attash, and money men Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and M
In a totally unscientific poll taken over the Internet, 23% of the respondents favored the death penalty for the defendants that allegedly beat up Victoria Lindsay for the now infamous reason of filming the beating to post it on MySpace and YouTube.Another 22.5% of respondents favored a sentence from 15 years to life in prison, which means that 45.5% of the respondents felt that the offense was se
Juan Torrens, the de facto owner of Amsouth Trust & Investment Corp. (Amsouth) and president of Countryside Land & Development, Inc., Rachael Torrens, president of 1st Choice Realty of South Florida, Inc. and de facto owner of First United Mortgage USA Corp., Daniel Ramos, Alfonso A. Muxo, a State of Florida certified real estate appraiser and owner of Palm Bay Real Estate Appraisals, Inc., and Katherine Harris, former …Read More...
Filed from Jane Genova. Through their attorneys, the three defendants in the Rhode Island Lead Paint Trial II - Sherwin-Williams (SHW), Millennium Holdings and NL Industries (NL) - filed a motion today in RI Superior Court.
The motion seeks to strike the plaintiff's proposed lead-abatement plan [that is, the state Attorney General's plan] in its entirety. Alternatively, defendants move the court to strike each part of the Attorney General's plan that
*Constitutes improper equitable relief...
Continued at Todd Sullivan's ValuePlays
In the following press release the FBI in Minneapolis announced that the long-time Minnesota home builder, Parish Marketing and Development Corporation (PMDC), and its owners, pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiring to commit mortgage fraud and money laundering charges arising from their scheme involving approximately 200 residences and approximately $100 million in loan proceeds. PMDC and its owners acknowledged obtaining more than $25 million for PMDC from the scheme. PMDC, its owners, Michael Alan Parish, 62, and his wife, Ardith Ann Parish, 61, and a PMDC agent, Christopher David Troup, 39, all of Eagan, appeared before Judge Ann D. Montgomery and pleaded guilty to participating in the conspiracy. According to their pleas, all four defendants acknowledged participating in the mortgage fraud scheme, by which PMDC utilized “straw buyers” to purchase approximately 200 properties built by PMDC, primarily in the New Prague, New Market and Lonsdale area. In t
Eleven defendants convicted of offenses stemming from a mortgage fraud scheme involving the prestigious Oak Tree Properties in Edmond, Oklahoma were sentenced to prison in U.S. District Court. The Defendants, charges, and sentences, (The following defendants sentenced were found guilty following a 12-day jury trial in April, 2007): Brandon L. Baum, 32, Joplin, Missouri, was convicted of 13 counts involving wire fraud and engaging in a monetary transaction in …Read More...
Two oil tycoons in Texas who collaborated with the UN in the oil-for-food scandal have plead guilty (via Michelle Malkin):Houston oilman David Chalmers, accused of funneling illegal payments to Saddam Hussein’s regime at at time when Iraq was the target of strict economic sanctions, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy charge.Chalmers’ business associate at Houston-based BayOil, Ludmil Dionissiev, pleaded guilty to one count of facilitating a shipment of merchandise into the United States, knowing that shipment to not be authorized by law.That leaves Houston oil tycoon Oscar Wyatt as the lone defendant still slated to go to trial in September on charges he made millions of dollars in illicit payments to Saddam’s government for the privilege of buying Iraqi crude.Wyatt attorney Carl Parker said today that his client is not guilty and intends to proceed to trial. Parker said he does not believe today’s guilty pleas will affect Wyatt’s prospects.“I don’t think it will mean a
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY Two more of Michael Vick’s co-defendants have hearings set for later this week on plea agreements with prosecutors. That would leave the Atlanta Falcons quarterback as the lone defendant awaiting a Nov. 26 trial in Richmond, Va., on a federal indictment stemming from alleged operation of a dogfighting ring. The scheduling of the latest plea agreement hearings appeared Monday on the website of the United States District Court in Richmond. PROBE ONGOING: NFL says Vick more…
A class action was initiated for an alleged foreclosure rescue scam against: Metropolitan Money Store Corp., Lanham, Maryland; Fordham and Fordham Investment Group, LTD, Lanham, Maryland; RTE Title and Escrow, LLC, Largo, Maryland; Sussex Title, LLC f/k/a CAP Title, LLC, Rockville, Maryland; Diane Linda Jones, Capitol Heights, Maryland- Straw Borrower; Leticia Nicholls, Takoma Park, Maryland- Straw Borrower;
Put another one in the books for Sherwin Williams (SHW), NL Industries (NL) and other lead paint defendants thanks to the Ohio Supreme Court. Proving, unlike Ohio AG Marc Dann it can count to ten and yes this was really that type of case, the Court ruled in favor of the legislature. "Writing for the majority in today's decision, Justice Cupp held that under Section 16 Article II of the Ohio Constitution, when the legislature passes a bill and adjourns its session sine die before presenting...
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News Update 7.24.07
North Carolina
From Hickory, a profile of capital defense attorney Lisa Dubs. The article looks at the major cases of Dubs’ career and explores why she chooses to defend some of society’s most reviled members. (I must say that I was given pause by the sexist undertone of the article - newspapers do not comment on the fashion choices of male attorneys - but Dubs clearly knows how to deal with people who see her as a woman first and an attorney second.)
In Raleigh, the General Assembly unanimously passed several bills to protect the rights of the accused. The first bill sets standards for eyewitness identifications, whether using photo or live lineups, to prevent officers (inadvertently or otherwise) from suggesting whom the witness should identify. The second requires that all suspect interrogations in homicide cases be recorded on audio or video tape. A third bill provides inmates and defendants with better access to DNA testing to prove their innoc
Defendants Olympia Ammons, Andre B. Benson, Raymond Costanzo, Jr., Ricardo Antonio Myrie, Daryl Maurice Smith, Fabian O. Wiltshire, and Calvin Lee Wright pled guilty to their roles in a complex mortgage fraud scheme and will be sentenced later this month. As previsouly reported by Mortgage Fraud Blog, a superseding grand jury indictment charged 21 individuals in a complicated mortgage fraud scheme alleged to have operated between June 2004 and April 18, 2006. …Read More...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a $20,000 settlement with a construction consultant for violating federal regulations governing asbestos removal from buildings in Hayward, Calif. in 2000.The construction consultant, Timothy Chu Construction Consulting Services, is paying a penalty of $20,000. Settlements were previously reached with the building owner, Cheng, Chow and Chu, Inc, for $149,000 and the construction company, Sincere Construction, for $1,500. The asbestos removal was also the subject of a criminal investigation which resulted in a plea agreement under which the building owner Clifford Cheng served four months under house arrest and paid a $5,000 criminal penalty.“This case was particularly important because of the large amounts of asbestos and the delay in mitigating the problem,” said Deborah Jordan, director of the Air Division in the EPA’s Pacific Southwest region. “We are pleased that all responsible parties were held accountable, and acknowledge
Bekim Hasipi, 35, Anchorage, Alaska, Robin Dorman, 31, Anchorage, Alaska and Jan Marquiss, 59, Anchorage, Alaska, each pled guilty to one count of wire fraud for making false statements in mortgage loan applications. Each defendant acted as a straw borrower, taking out loans in their names for the benefit of Azem Limani while falsely claiming that they were seeking a mortgage loan for the purchase of a primary residence. …Read More...
Mortgage Lenders Network, Inc. has dismissed three defendants from the civil lawsuit that it filed in 2004. David G. Anderson, Bowling Green, Ohio and Emilio Soli, Stow, Ohio were dismissed because, as stated in a document entitled Notice of Plaintiff’s Intent to Dismiss Defendants David G. Anderson, Emilio Soli and Adkins Appraisal Services, Inc. Without Prejudice, according to the testimony of the defendants, they were not involved in the …Read More...
Ugo John Leone filed suit in Clark County, Nevada against 27 defendants who he alleges conspired to defraud him in a flipping scheme. The complaint alleges that Moe David Zahriya purchased the residential property at 7524 Royal Crystal Street, Las Vegas Nevada for $673,754 in March of 2005 and resold it to Leone in May 2006 for $969,888. It further alleges that in January 2006 John Colon purchased the …Read More...
