A former lawyer, who was disbarred in the 1980s taking client escrow funds, has been charged with defrauding investors of out of millions of dollars as a hedge fund manager. Say, Buffy, let us invest our wealth with the fellow who was disbarred for stealing funds! Arthur G. Nadel, 76, made his initial appearance before a federal [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 6, 2009
From GamePolitics, the best place to follow the ongoing saga of batcrap-crazy ex-lawyer Jack Thompson: Jack Thompson is hoping that the United States Supreme Court will consider his appeal of the Florida Supreme Court ruling that disbarred him for life. In mid-December the anti-game attorney requested from the U.S. Superme Court an extension of a Christmas Eve [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 31, 2008
An associate who was fired from Kirkland & Ellis in 2004, after admitting he attempted to arrange a meeting “to engage in an oral sexual act” with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl, has been suspended from practicing law in New York for three years. In a rare 3-2 decision, a five-judge panel of the [...]
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...Thursday, December 11, 2008
Houston’s Bennett Law Firm maintains a blog called Bad Prosecutors, which has compiled its “Ten Worst US Prosecutors” for 2008. Author Bob Bennett says he waited until after the election to publish the list, so as not to appear “political.” The top choices: Alberto Gonzales, former US Attorney General At the time of our second year, Alberto Gonzales has [...]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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