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Independent Inventors Conference Set for August 8-9 2008-07-16 11:44:00 The 13th annual Independent Inventors
Conference will be held on the campus of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Alexandria, Virginia August
8-9. A pre-conference workshop, for anyone interested in learning about the basics of patents and the importance of intellectual property protection, will be held on August 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. The workshop is for beginners and is a good
Attorney General Sues Man Who Posed As Pastor To Hijack Church Property 2008-07-15 15:54:00 WESTHAVEN,CT - AttorneyGeneral
Richard Blumenthal today announced a lawsuit against a man who fraudulently posed as pastor of a Hamden church, transferred the church property title to his own church and then took out a $1.15 million mortgage on the property that ultimately defaulted.Blumenthal's lawsuit names Willie E. McKay of West Haven, Love Temple Church
of Christ in Prayer, Inc. of West Have Read more:Attorney General
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Justice Department to Monitor Elections in Georgia 2008-07-14 18:57:00 WASHINGTON – The JusticeDepartment
today announced that on Tuesday, July 15, 2008, it will monitor elections in the Georgia
counties of Coffee, Dougherty and Long to ensure compliance with federal voting rights statutes.In 2006, the Justice Department
and Long County settled a lawsuit regarding violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for Read more:Elections
, Monitor
Brown Sues Cement Plant For Hexavalent Chromium Exposure 2008-07-14 17:58:00 RIVERSIDE- (July 3, 2008)California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown
Jr. and District Attorney Rod Pacheco today sued TXI International, a Riverside cement plant, for exposing people to the potent carcinogen hexavalent chromium without providing warnings to the community as required by law.“Dust, which contained elevated levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, escaped into the air in viola Read more:Exposure
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Virginia Woman Indicted in $132 Million Scheme to Defraud Clients of Funds Allegedly Held in Trust 2008-07-14 05:55:00 WASHINGTON - Lara Coleman, 40, of Richmond, Va., was charged in a superseding indictment with conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
Chuck Rosenberg announced. The superseding indictment stems from a scheme to defraud and obtain millions of dollars in client funds held by The 1031 Ta Read more:Allegedly
, Clients
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USCIS Extends Validity Period of Employment Authorization Documents (EAD) for Refugees 2008-07-12 16:11:00 WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide better customer service to refugees, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced that it would extend the validity of initial work authorization documents for refugees to two years after arrival in the United States. Previous policy required renewal of the Employment Authorization Document (EAD) after one year.The new policy will reduc Read more:Documents
, Period
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Former Defense Department Official Sentenced to 57 Months in Prison for Espionage Violation 2008-07-11 13:18:00 WASHINGTON— Gregg William Bergersen, age 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Virginia to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, in violation of 18 U.S.C., Sections 793(d) and (g). Bergersen pleaded guilty to this offense on March 31, 2008, afte Read more:Defense
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Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi and His Two Bodyguards Indicted on Civil Rights Charges 2008-07-10 11:42:00 Washington – A federal grand jury in Jackson
, Miss., returned a three-count indictment against Frank E. Melton, the mayor of Jackson, Miss., and his two bodyguards, Jackson police officers Michael Recio and Marcus Wright. The three men were charged in connection with a conspiracy to tear down a private home in Jackson and thereby violate the civil rights of the owner and resident of that home, a Read more:Civil
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, Mississippi
, Rights
ANOTHER BOGUS ATTORNEY BITES THE DUST 2008-07-09 14:08:00 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (July 9, 2008) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced his office has obtained a settlement that shuts down a Rochester woman’s unlicensed law practice. The settlement follows an investigation that found that Kathleen Johnson, of Broderick Drive in Rochester, operated a business out of her residence and repeatedly gave erroneous and conflicting legal bankruptcy and financi
THANK YOU READERS 2008-07-09 11:47:00 NEW YORK - My name is Joel Irving and I would like to thank all of you for your support by reading the New York Paralegal Blog. New York Paralegal Blog is a Blog that brings legal news to paralegals and anyone who is interested in hard- hitting, outspoken, legal news! Over the next few weeks I will be bringing you even more hard- hitting news and original stories from myself about: paralegals, leg
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO ANNOUNCES GUILTY PLEAS FROM WAYNE COUNTY MEDICAID TRANSPORTATION COMPANY FOR STEALING NEARLY $1 MILLION 2008-07-09 06:39:00 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (July 8, 2008) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that M & M Medical Transport, Inc., and its owner, Murtada S. Ebrahim, pleaded guilty to stealing $971,267 from Medicaid, and have agreed to pay full restitution to the state. From January 1, 2003 to December 6, 2007, Ebrahim and his company, which offered taxi and ambulette services to Medicaid recipient
CRYSTAL ANN TYMICH 2008-07-06 14:42:00 On June 30, 1994, six-year-old Crystal Ann Tymich was playing near her residence in South Los Angeles with her three older brothers. She was last seen picking peaches from a neighbor's tree, before disappearing sometime between 2 and 5 p.m. She was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt, shorts with a floral print, and tennis shoes with a picture of a mermaid. Individuals with infor
SILICON VALLEY MANUFACTURER NOVELLUS TO PAY $168,000 FOR RACIAL HARASSMENT 2008-07-05 09:26:00 NEW YORK - A major Silicon Valley manufacturer of semiconductor production equipment will pay $168,000 to settle a racial harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged Novellus Systems, Inc. with subjecting an African American worker to racial harassment. According to the EEOC�s suit,
JP MORGAN CHASE BREAKS AND ENTERS LIKE A COMMON CRIMINAL? 2008-07-03 06:37:00 NEW YORK - JP Morgan Chase (through a mortgage company it owns) allegedly victimized a Nigerian couple by unlawfully breaking and entering into the couple's home and stealing everything they owned. They removed family heirlooms, furniture and even food. The egregious actions of EMC Mortgage Corp., and its parent company, JP Morgan Chase are being attributed to a so-called mix-up on a foreclosure a
AMERICAN CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION CELEBRATES ITS TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY 2008-07-03 05:23:00 NEW YORK - (PR URGENT) The American Center for Conflict Resolution Institute announces big plans for their 10th Anniversary Celebrations on October 22, 2008. In the short span of a single decade ACCRI has evolved from a local training and mediation company to a thriving distance learning career college with an international scope, offering comprehensive distance learning mediation and paralegal pr
Fact Sheet: Protecting Voting Rights and Preventing Election Fraud 2008-07-02 08:20:00 One of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) highest priorities is to protect voting rights and enforce specific federal laws that help to ensure that all qualified voters have an opportunity to cast their ballots and have them counted. The Ballot Access and Voting
Integrity Initiative was established in October 2002 to spearhead the Department’s expanded efforts to address election crimes and v Read more:Election
, Protecting
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$75,000 Reward Offered in Double Homicide 2008-07-02 07:37:00 LOS ANGELES - On April 27, 2008, at about 10:45 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a "shots fired" radio call at 48th Street and Wall Street. When the officers arrived at the location they found three female victims suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Officers were directed to a car parked at the curb a short distance away. There they discovered two additio
Visa Inc. Rescinds Debit Card Rule as a Result of Department of Justice Antitrust Investigation 2008-07-01 12:22:00 WASHINGTON — As the result of a Department
of Justice
antitrust investigation, Visa Inc. has rescinded a rule that required merchants to treat Visa-branded debit cards differently when used as a PIN-debit card (and processed via non-Visa networks) from the same cards when used as signature debit cards and processed on the Visa network. The Department said that it had been investigating whether t Read more:Debit
, Result
KRISTIN DENISE SMART 2008-06-29 11:31:00 NEW YORK - Kristin Denise Smart was last seen at approximately 2:00 a.m., May 25, 1996, as she was walking back to her dorm room on the California Polytechnic campus, San Luis Obispo, California from an off-campus party. Kristin was accompanied by a fellow student who stated that he left her a block from her Muir Hall dorm to go to his dorm. Kristin did not return to her room and has not contacted
RAPIDLY GROWING NEW YORK CITY PARALEGAL ASSOCIATION 2008-06-29 05:39:00 NEW YORK - New York City Paralegal Association, Inc. (NYCPA), is the only nationally recognized professional paralegal association serving the metropolitan New York area. Incorporated in May 2007, this association has rapidly grown in membership and provides a valuable medium for the progress and professional advancement of all paralegals working within the five boroughs, Westchester and Rockland
New Orleans Woman Sentenced to Prison for Aiding and Abetting Unregistered Agent of China 2008-08-01 14:14:00 WASHINGTON — Yu Xin Kang, age 33, of Orleans
.htm">New Orleans
, La., was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Virginia to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for aiding and abetting an unregistered agent of a foreign government, namely the People’s Republic of China
(PRC), in violation of 18 U.S.C., Sections 2 and 951. Kang pleaded guilty to this offense on May 28, 2008, after be Read more:Agent
, Prison
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USCIS in Los Angeles Reaches Out to Its Customers Affected by Earthquake and Aftershocks 2008-07-30 09:36:00 LOS ANGELES – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in Los Angeles
is taking several proactive measures to reach customers and employees affected by the earthquake and aftershocks. The safety of our customers and employees comes first and foremost. All applicants who missed appointments due to the earthquake will receive priority rescheduling for a new appointment. USCIS will call Read more:Earthquake
, Los Angeles
U.S. Senator Indicted on False Statement Charges 2008-07-29 14:55:00 WASHINGTON – United States Senator
Theodore F. Stevens of Alaska was charged today in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia with seven counts of making false statements related to Stevens’ financial disclosure forms, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced.The seven-count indictment charges Sen. Stevens, the fo
Significant Multi-Agency Effort Culminates in Numerous Arrests Suspects Involved in Wide Array of Felonies 2008-07-28 09:53:00 Los Angeles - A multi-agency operation in a four-year robbery/murder investigation has lead to the arrest of multiple suspects. On July 25, 2008, in the early morning hours, a series of 20 search warrants, 12 arrest warrants, and 1 parole search were served at various locations. Warrants for an additional five suspects were issued, but at this time these suspects have not been located. The warr Read more:Array
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