During the past four years, federal judges imposed sentences of one to four years on five defendants in the AIG fraud case that caused more than $500 million in losses; 25 years on Ronald Treadwell for a Ponzi scheme involving a $40 million loss; and 3 1/2 years on former Impath Inc. President Richard Adelson for a $50 million securities fraud.
Using a law originally enacted to combat the Mafia, attorneys are filing lawsuits accusing BP PLC and Transocean Ltd. of committing a long-term series of crimes by concealing flaws in deep-water drilling plans and lacking safeguards to contain a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill.
When the State Legislature recently passed a bill meant to stop the use of residential apartments as hotel rooms, tenant advocates and some elected officials spoke favorably of the measure, saying it would end a dangerous and unregulated practice.
A train crash in eastern India has killed at least 60 people and injured another 120, officials say.
Lawyers who usually act for victims of NHS blunders say increasing numbers of people are seeking to take legal action over "cowboy" cosmetic treatment.
Nuclear deals, trade agreements, signatures on international treaties: Russia has been in a cooperative mood since the turn of the year. Moscow has discovered the benefits of a less confrontational foreign policy.
For years, a number of law firms have had two tiers of partners, often differentiating between equity and non-equity holders of the same job title.
In search of soft power, Brazil is turning itself into one of the world´s biggest aid donors. But is it going too far, too fast?
Petrobras will commence oil extraction from pre-salt deposits in the southeastern state of Espírito Santo on Thursday (15).
More and more parents are asking us for advice about this issue. No one knows how many schools are now using biometric technology like this because it seems that the government is not keeping a record. Some estimates suggest that as many as 30% of all schools in the UK have fingerprinting technology.
The demonstrators in the makeshift camp known as Democracy Village failed in an attempt to overturn an eviction notice at the Court of Appeal.
In the largest-ever penalty paid by a Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs & Co. on Thursday agreed to pay $550 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges.
A judge on Thursday dismissed a $2.3 million judgment against Dole Food Co. in a lawsuit by purported Nicaraguan banana workers, ruling that the company and the court were victims of a massive fraud.
MPs are to investigate the laws on gun control in the aftermath of two recent high profile fatal shooting incidents.
When financial markets came unglued two years ago, few Americans had heard of derivatives, much less their more esoteric forms like credit-default swaps and collateralized debt obligations. Since then, derivatives have been central to the debate over how tightly to regulate Wall Street´s freewheeling ways.
Saying that government lawyers let their zeal for victory in a deportation case outweigh their responsibility to be fair, a federal appeals court last week ordered the United States to provide a haven for a woman facing the likelihood of torture in China.
Declaring his province’s courts too lenient on child molesters, a P.E.I. judge decided he should single-handedly change the paradigm: He imposed an unusually harsh sentence on one man in hopes other judges would follow suit.
Who knew right-wing Western politicians and the Syrian government had something in common?
Companies owned by oil giants BP, Shell and Total were fined a total of £5.35m today for their involvement in the Buncefield oil storage depot explosion and fire - the worst of its kind since the Second World War.
Mexico City has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to marry in Argentina under a new law.
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