C. Ruffin Poole has been charged by a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina with 51 counts of corruption. Poole is a former partner at McGuireWoods (he left the firm last month) and former chief legal aide to North Carolina Governor Michael Easley. In a 64 page indictment Poole is charged with bribery, racketeering, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Two Pennsylvania judges have plead guilty to fraud charges, after taking $2.6 million in kickbacks in return for placing juvenile offenders in specific detention facilities. The plea agreements for Luzerne County President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan call for sentences of more than seven years in prison. Both have agreed to step down [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 22, 2009
A prominent law firm paid $38.1 million to collect overdue Chicago parking tickets and other debt is still rolling in city business, one year after it was supposed to be fired for bankrolling an Arizona trip for a high-ranking Revenue Department official. Last February, the collection-services law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson was accused [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 19, 2008
Indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attorney will challenge the lawfulness of the court-ordered wiretaps offered as evidence in federal corruption allegations against the Illinois Democrat. Chicago attorney Ed Genson criticized FBI wiretaps that prosecutors say record Blagojevich scheming to deal President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job. Genson told an Illinois House [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 16, 2008
New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is to reopen 170 estates of deceased people, in order to reimburse heirs who were gouged by a greedy Brooklyn lawyer Louis Rosenthal. Rosenthal piled up millions of dollars in fees with the approval of his former law school pal, disgraced ex-Surrogate Court Judge Michael Feinberg. On December 4th, the state [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
Embattled Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will retain Edward Genson, of Chicago’s Genson & Gillespie today, according to news sources. Genson is best known for defending former Hollinger CEO Conrad Black on fraud charges, and R&B star R. Kelly on child pornography charges. He also represented Chicago businessman Lawrence Warner, a codefendant of former Illinois Governor George [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 15, 2008
The speaker of the Illinois house is convening a special panel to determine if Governor Rod Blagojevich should be impeached on corruption charges. Also, an internal review by the Obama transition team concluded there was no improper contact between the President-elect’s camp and Blagojevich’s office. Blagojevich is accused of trying to barter Obama’s vacated US Senate seat [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Chicago Tribune broke the news this morning that Illinios goveror Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested today for what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald calls a “staggering” level of corruption. The FBI has gathered up a ton of evidence that the governor and his associates had been plotting to sell [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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FBI agents have arrested Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, on charges stemming from what a US attorney calls a “staggering,” wide-ranging criminal conspiracy. Amongst other charges, the Feds have accused Blagojevich of trying to sell or trade the US Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. Blagojevich was taken into custody [...]
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