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Respected Miami Attorney Charged with Money Laundering
A highly-regarded Miami attorney, Ben Kuehne, was charged with money laundering for his role in approving payments to well-known defense lawyer Roy Black that allegedly were funds from a drug smuggling operation of the Medellín cocaine cartel. According to a story in the Miami Herald (here), Kuehne was retained by Black in connection with his…
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Advertising For A Fraud Conviction
A Press Release of the US Attorneys Office for the Central District of California tells of a recent fraud conviction that started when an individual in the U.S. had a visa expire and decided that advertising for someone to marry on craigslist might remedy the problem. So she placed 12 advertisements on the list and…
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Best Wishes to Law Blogger Peter Lattman
The WSJ reports that law blogger Peter Lattman is moving on within the Jrl. We wish him the very best in his new beat and welcome Dan Slater, the new WSJ law blogger. (ph & esp)
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Problems in the Pardon Office?
See the NYTimes here. (esp)
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The Collateral Cost
Check out Tom Kirkendall of Houston Clear Thinker’s post on the Human Cost of Questionable Prosecutions. He remarks on the void in "US mainstream media" on the many collateral consequences of prosecutions, especially prosecutions lacking validity. (esp)
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Former Wal-Mart Exec Gets Low Cost Sentence on Remand
Tom Coughlin, the former Chief Operating Officer and key executive at Wal-Mart, received a 27-month term of home confinement with five years probation after pleading guilty to five wire fraud counts (aiding and abetting) and one false tax return filing count. The government appealed the sentence and the appellate court spoke by remanding the case…
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Export Controls
A DOJ Press Release tells that "the director of a Singapore-based aviation company was arraigned [this past week] in federal court in Brooklyn on charges that she illegally exported controlled U.S. military aircraft components and shipped commercial aircraft components to Iran." Defendants were "indicted with one count of conspiring to export aircraft parts to Iran…
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The Many Battles of Dickie Scruggs
Two hoary maxims that Napoleon ignored were never fight a two front war and never invade Russia in the winter. Famed Mississippi tort lawyer Dickie Scruggs is fighting on more than two fronts these days, although under the terms of his bail I don’t think he’ll be heading to Russia any time soon. His criminal…
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Can a Disqualified Lawyer Continue to Help Out?
[Moved up from January 28 with a brief update at the end] The prosecution of Dickie Scruggs has been fascinating, to say the least, including the view it has provided on the web of connections between the various lawyers in and around the case. The latest filing by Scruggs’ defense counsel raises an interesting issue…
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Snipes Not Guilty of Fraud & Conspiracy Charges; Guilty of 3 Misdemeanors
The press (here, here, here, and here) is reporting that Wesley Snipes has been found guilty of three misdemeanors and not guilty of the charges that carried more severe penalties. Unlike his co-defendants, Snipes was acquitted of the conspiracy charge that he faced. The indictment against Snipes had charged him with conspiracy under section 371,…
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