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Targets Identified in Milberg Weiss Probe
A Los Angeles Times story (here) about the government’s ongoing investigation of possible kickbacks paid by plaintiff securities class action firm Milberg Weiss to lead plaintiffs in class action cases notes that leading partners Melvyn Weiss and David Bershad, along with now-former partner William Lerach, are targets of the investigation. The Times story discusses a…
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Connecticut Attorney Will Serve Five Years for Stealing From Estates
The Connecticut Chief State’s Attorney announced that an attorney who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from estates for which she had been appointed the conservatrix by the probate court. will serve five years after agreeing to enter a guilty plea to embezzlement. In a familiar story, attorney Elizabeth Zembko took money from the estates…
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Coalition Provisional Authority Official Charged with Corruption
The government has charged Robert Stein, a former comproller for the South Central Region of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, with accepting gifts from Philip Bloom in exchange for steering contracts to three of Bloom’s companies for reconstruction work in Iraq. According to the government charges, Stein and his wife bought cars, jewelry, and…
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Lord Black Indicted on Fraud Charges
Lord Conrad Black, the former CEO and controlling shareholder of media company Hollinger International, Inc., which has since been broken up, was charged along with three former executives of the firm with mail and wire fraud. Two of the other defendants, Peter Atkinson and Mark Kipnis, are attorneys (Atkinson in Canada), and the third, Jack…
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SEC Files Amended Complaint Against Amerindo and Its Founders
The SEC announced the filing of an amended complaint (here) against Amerindo Investment Advisors and its founders, Alberto Vilar and Gary Tanaka, alleging a scheme to defraud investors in two off-shore funds and in Guaranteed Fixed Rate Deposit Accounts. The Commission Litigation Release (here) describes the additional fraud: Amerindo, Vilar, Tanaka and other affiliated entities,…
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15-Year Sentence in Cleveland Corruption Case
Nate Gray, a former Cleveland businessman and confidant of former Cleveland mayor Mike White, received a 15-year prison sentence for his conviction on corruption and tax charges. The case arose from a broad corruption investigation involving officials in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Houston, and New Orleas. A press release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for…
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Medicare Fraud Conviction
The U.S. Attrorney’s Office for the Nothern District of Texas announced the conviction of two owners of a durable medical equipment (DME) company and one doctor for medicare fraud. The defendants were Chuck Ogba, his younger brother, Iffy Ogba, and Dr. Patrick Antoon. According to a press release (here): Chuck Ogba owned and operated his…
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Corruption Indictment for Bribes to Obtain Reconstruction Work in Iraq
The New York Times reports (here) that Philip Bloom has been charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, and conspiracy to launder money related to payments made to two coconspirators and their wives to obtain reconstruction contracts in Iraq. Bloom controls three companies that have $3.5 million in contracts awarded by the…
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Will Woodward’s Revelation Help Libby’s Defense?
To say that Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s revelation that he received information about Valerie Plame’s status as a covert CIA agent came out of the blue would be an understatement. For I. Lewis Libby, the question is whether this information is helpful to his defense. There has been speculation that Libby would work to…
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The Mess in Michigan: Prosecutor Finds Extortion Allegation Credible, But Won’t File Charges
An earlier post (here) discussed the allegations by Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox that Geoffrey Fieger, a prominent local attorney who has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to oppose Cox in next year’s election, tried to blackmail him about an affair the still-married Cox had with a co-worker a few years ago. Cox’s…
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