Edward Stein, Architect of $46 Million Hedge Fund Ponzi Scheme, Sentenced to 9 Years

Edward T. Stein, a former hedge fund manager, was sentenced to nine years in prison in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of $46 million, according to Business Week. Stein.

In an opinion issued on Tuesday, Montejo v. Louisiana, — S.Ct. —-, 2009 WL 1443049 (2009), the Supreme Court removed a layer of protection of criminal defendants against coercive and badgering police interrogations by overruling, Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625, 106.

In Flores-Figueroa v. United States, No 08-108, in a rare 9-0 shutout, Justice Breyer writing for the Supreme Court addressed and resolved the aggravated identity theft statute as follows: The question [presented by 18 U. S. C. §1028A(a)(1)] is whether the statute requires.

Following his recent victory in the Helio Castroneves tax evasion trial, Roy Black, famed trial attorney from Miami spent some time with us reflecting on that trial: Q: Thanks for your time and congratulations on the not guilty verdicts in the Helio.

Pete at Drug WarRant and Scott at Drug War Chronicle have each fired off very sharp critiques of George Will's fairly awful column from Sunday's Washington Post, which seems to be an attempt to out-do James Wilson in its celebration of American incarceration rates. The main point.

To date, no reported decisions mention the employment of the "Chewbacca Defense" at trial, despite the passage of almost 14 years from the late Johnnie L. Cochran’s demonstration in 1998 of the novel and innovative defense on the 14th episode of the.

In March of 2010, a bank called Park Avenue Bank failed. The former bank president subsequently became the first person in the United States who was convicted of stealing funds provided to bail out banks as part of the Troubled Asset Relief.

Over 300 street gangs are situated in the Las Vegas Valley. Police say that number is growing because members are breaking ties and creating new factions. About 20,000 members (which equates to 6/1000 residents in Nevada) are in this area, based on.

Note: I first wrote this post back in March when James Q. Wilson published an op-ed in several major American newspapers defending America's intense use of prisons. I decided not to publish it at the time, but today I see that Wilson.

Savannah personal injury attorney, Benjamin Eichholz, entered a plea in federal court yesterday to obstructing a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation by repeatedly transmitting false and misleading documents to the Department of Labor and by making false and misleading statements to investigators. Eichholz,.