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... orchestrated by Buffalo-based Gen-See Capital Corporation a/k/a Gen Unlimited ("Gen-See") and its owner and president, Richard S. Piccoli. According to the Commission's complaint, the defendants have raised millions of dollars from investors by promising ... for the Western District of New York and the United States Postal Inspection Service in this matter. Related articles by Zemanta Joel Steinger and Mutual Benefits Viatical Ponzi Anthony A. James: Ponzi Madoff's Multi-Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme ...

... necessarily produce bad judges, of course. I was reminded of that when I read that Clarence Thomas recently gave a speech honoring the late Richard Sheppard Arnold, an Arkansas-based judge of the Eighth Circuit (whose brother still serves on that court). Thomas ... States House of Representatives and incidentally to work at the family law firm. That's when fate stopped playing ball with Richard Arnold. In 1966, at the age of 30, he narrowly lost the Democratic primary. But six years later the victor ...

Wouldn't you think people in Hawai'i would have better ways to spend their time than this? On the night of April 13, 2002, Fields was home with his then-girlfriend, Melinda Staggs ("Staggs") and a friend, Dave Richards ("Richards"). Fields and Richards were eating dinner when Fields received a phone call from Staggs' mother, Patsy Pepper ("Pepper"), who threatened to "com[e] over to the house to kick his ass and kill him." Pepper and several men thereafter arrived, and a fight ensued. Staggs was ...

... vigilantes can look for Joel Jacobsen in Archangel, Qom and Santiago. Back next week.

... could be suspended. But that's a veritable life in prison compared to the "punishment" meted out to Washington's Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders. An AP dispatch run in the Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian News last month gave the bare bones: Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders violated the Code of Judicial Conduct by touring Washington's sex predator center at McNeil Island while residents had appeals pending, a panel of judges sitting ...

Lori Richards, the Director of the SEC's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), spoke on March 20th at the IA Compliance Best Practices Summit 2008. In her speech, Ms. Richards provided some background information on the Commission's risk-based approach to examining investment advisers, and then detailed their current "Top 10" focus areas for examinations of investment advisers registered with the SEC. Since forewarned is forearmed, it might be worthwhile to review her brief ...

... ? As of 2007, "calling the President of the United States a liar is now a sure way to cement ones bona fide's [sic] in the growing secular progressive community." But all this indignation about lawyer Joe Wilson, and yet we hear no comparisons to Richard Sanders, the Jack Nance lookalike who serves (if that's the right word for what he does) on the Washington Supreme Court. We've run into Justice Sanders before (see post 198 and post 282), and we'll do so again soon. My opinion of him has risen ...

/**/ One of the themes of this blog is that we should evaluate our legal system by looking at what it does rather than examining the words its judges use or their protestations of good intentions. That approach can be applied more broadly, too. Take Richard Nixon's War on Drugs. If one were to reason from effects backwards to intent, one would have to conclude that Nixon was not motivated to reduce the consumption of illegal drugs. We're wrapping up the fourth decade of "war" and while there's ...

... not, however, vitiate constitutional guarantees when they have the effect of allowing the guilty to go free. In that passage, there's only a thin veneer of rhetoric covering the two maxims. More typically diffuse is a famous passage by the late Judge Richard Arnold of the Eighth Circuit (the federal appeals court that hears cases from a Big Dipper-shaped slice of mid-America stretching from North Dakota to Arkansas). (Arnold was profiled in post 235.) You only need to know two things about this ...

... in America has figured out is back-room political deals, in which wannabes pay for their nominations by contributing large sums of money to prominent politicians or otherwise making themselves politically useful. (See post 235.) The late Judge Richard Arnold, for instance, who since his premature death seems to have apotheosized into a reincarnation of Learned Hand ("the greatest judge never to serve on the Supreme Court"), lost two congressional races before taking a water-carrying job with ...