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• Ex-Attorney Mulls Plea in Alleged $1.2B Scheme as Trustee Sues Firm Partner for $4M

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Formerly high-flying Florida attorney Scott Rothstein is negotiating a guilty plea, his lawyer says, concerning the federal criminal charges he faces over an alleged $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme he is accused of operating while making use of the credibility conferred by his role as the managing partner of a Ft. ...
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• Are New DOJ ‘Broad & Early’ Discovery Rules Best Enforced by Judges?

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Three memos issued this week by the Department of Justice, in response to criticism of federal prosecutors concerning the disclosure of exculpatory evidence in the high-profile prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens, provide a roadmap for staying within ethical boundaries. In a main memo to DOJ attorneys that ...
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• Dr. Janet Johnson Hunter Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud…what was she thinking?

  
  Motivational Speaker - Chuck Gallagher Business Ethics and Choices Expert — Authority: 117
  For more than three years, Janet Johnson-Hunter, a licensed medical doctor and former owner/manager of a private ambulance transportation company, committed fraud.  Johnson-Hunter, late this past year, pled guilty to conspiring to conceal material facts in connection with the delivery of payment for health care ...
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• Madoff in the news

  
  BEANIEVILLE - a day trading, swing trading and investing blog — Authority: 141
  Bernie Madoff is now back in prison after being hospitalized due to a fall from his bed. He was earlier thought to have been beat assaulted. Hell be in the news for awhile, being the biggest Ponzi artist the world has ever known. Even the Chinese knows him, and an artist has Madoff on display at an art gallery.
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• Store employees steal more than shoplifters

  
  Eideard — Authority: 149
  Done your holiday stealing, yet?
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• Seven 2009 memories sure to stay with you, like it or not

  
  L.A. Land — Authority: 137
  A spectacular market crash, a dramatic rebound, a financial system and economy pulled back from the brink of collapse -- who writes this stuff, Hollywood? The most emotionally riveting reality TV of 2009 was what emanated regularly from Wall Street and Washington, although Sacramento didnt lack for effort, either. ...
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• Jersey City Accountant Charged with Embezzling $1M

  
  New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog — Authority: 112
  An article from nj.com discusses the recent guilty plea of a 60-year-old accountant to embezzling $1 million in cash and stock from Bel Fuse, Inc. The man was a senior accountant for the Jersey City firm which manufactures telecommunications equipment. Based on the article, in pleading guilty on November 19, 2009 to ...
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• Brooke Astor son convicted; case highlights elderly financial exploitation

  
  Motivational Speaker - Chuck Gallagher Business Ethics and Choices Expert — Authority: 117
  At first glance it may be hard to imagine what lessons the case of late philanthropist Brooke Astor holds for everyday Americans. It’s not as if many of us have a $200 million fortune stashed under our mattresses, at risk of being stolen. Equally improbable is the other person at the center of the case: Brooke ...
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• Student Taught NYU a Lesson re Alleged $409K Liquor-Store-Receipt Fraud

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Using receipts fished out of a local liquor stores garbage, a New York University employee allegedly submitted $409,000 in fraudulent expense reimbursement claims between 2003 and 2008. John Runowicz has now pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court to charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records, ...
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• Latest Twist in Rothstein Case: Firm Loaned $35M to Lawyers & Others

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  With $1.4 billion in liabilities and $42 million in assets, according to court filings, the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm obviously isnt doing well in the wake of an alleged $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme by former attorney Scott Rothstein. And of that $42 million, $23.9 million represents loans and debts ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Yet Another Jewish-Haredi Ponzi Scam ["A Den of Thieves" Edition: Merry Christmas Everyone!]

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 121
  [NO PICTURE AVAILABLE] Hmmm, I’m sensing a pattern here…what about you ? + Haredi investors fear ‘ilui’ lost more than $30m A spokesman for the Tel Aviv District police said they are not investigating the incident. Haredi investors apparently prefer not to let the authorities know the extent of their ...
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• Advertising with Impunity on Craigslist, Foreclosed-Home Strippers Avoid Sanctions

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  When a potential buyer walks into a foreclosed home, it isnt unusual to see gaping, often jagged holes where items of value including appliances, cabinets, countertops, sinks, toilets and doors, among other items of value, used to be. And it isnt just ordinary thieves who are doing the stripping. Soon-to-be-former ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Another Jewish-Haredi Ponzi Scheme

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 121
  [NO PICTURE AVAILABLE] Hey American taxpayers — how does it feel to be paying millions per year to the Israelis for fake Jewish schools? + Haredi schools falsely register students to get funds Education Ministry inquiry reveals ultra-Orthodox schools in Jerusalem fictitiously register children as students ...
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• Editor Sues Tom Cruise, Says Actor, Lawyer & PI Illegally Wiretapped Him

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  In a new chapter of an ongoing saga of allegations against a so-called private investigator to the stars concerning claimed dirty litigation tactics in high-profile celebrity cases, a magazine editor has sued convicted gumshoe Anthony Pellicano, actor Tom Cruise and his lawyer, Bert Fields. Michael Davis Sapir claims ...
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• Streamlining Immigration Justice

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The New York Times’ John Schwartz reports that federal prosecutions of immigration violators made a big jump last year — and now make up more than half of all federal prosecutions. Why focus federal prosecutions on immigration violators at a time when white collar chicanery makes the headlines? Because it’s ...
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• Hedge Fund Sues Dechert, Claims $125M Loss in Dreier Ponzi Scheme

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  Contending that Dechert issued a "false" opinion letter used by then-practicing attorney Marc Dreier to defraud Fortress Investment Group LLC, the private equity and hedge fund firm sued the legal partnership today for damages in New York state court. Its lawsuit alleges that phony promissory notes purchased by the ...
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• What have all the Ethics gone? Seems that Fraud is rampant! Business Ethics expert Chuck Gallagher comments

  
  Motivational Speaker - Chuck Gallagher Business Ethics and Choices Expert — Authority: 117
  All too often I’m asked, especially as we review this past year on the anniversary month of the disclosure of Bernie Madoff’s fraud, whether fraud should decrease since we are more focused on ethics and ethical choices. Unfortunately, as I see it the answer is a resounding no!   Yet, the Ethics Resource Center ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Moshe Zussman [Jewish Ponzi Scheme]

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 121
  [NO PICTURE AVAILABLE] More on the theme of Jewry parasitizing their own, and most likely very many non-Jews too; enter Ultra-’Religious’ Jew Moshe Zussman : + “ ‘Haredi Madoff’ bilked Bnei Brak families “ Another Ponzi has been uncovered in the ultra-religious sector. Kikar Shabbat, a news Web site ...
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• Lawyer Charged in Alleged Scheme to Divert Mortgage Payoffs to Fake Company

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  A Massachusetts attorney is accused of using his legal skills to identify properties that were about to be sold and then recording documents to make it look as though a fake company he created held the mortgage on them. But before Leon Gelfgatt could collect the $1.3 million in mortgage payoffs that he allegedly hoped ...
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• Retired 32-Year Prosecutor Indicted Over Forfeiture Fund Expenditures

  
  ABA Journal — Authority: 671
  The former lead prosecutor for Kimble County has been indicted on there on two charges of misapplication of fiduciary property. Former District Attorney Ron Sutton, who retired at the end of 2008 after 32 years with the prosecutors office, is accused of spending seized funds for travel and staff bonuses, reports the ...
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