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26 Jul 2011, 10:08 am
The Panamanian Deputy Foreign Minister Alvaro Aleman assured that the ex-General Manuel Antonio Noriega, serving a 7 year prison sentence in France for money laundering, could be extradited to Panama in October.
Aleman announced that France is expected to tell Panama’s government the exact date for Noriega’s extradition, after the U.S. government approved the solicited extradition, so he can serve sentences for up to 67 years for the crimes he convicted of. Noriega’s convictions in Panama… [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 12:27 pm
The Law Library now subscribes to HeinOnline’s State Attorney General Reports and Opinions library.
The reports and attorney general opinions for each state back to at least 1980 are currently available in this collection. In addition, opinions and reports for California, New York, Washington, and Wyoming are available back to inception. HeinOnline intends to update this library on a monthly basis until all the reports and opinions of all 50 states are covered back to inception. The collection… [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 10:45 am
By Thurbert Baker
The National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) convened last week in Washington, DC for its annual Spring Meeting.
As a former Attorney General and president of NAAG, I know my fellow AGs really enjoy these gatherings. The informal setting provides a great opportunity to exchange experiences and to learn from one another. Camaraderie, a strong ethic of bipartisanship, information sharing, and working together make State AGs a unique community.
With State AGs playing… [read post]
10 Aug 2011, 9:38 am
(Dodger shirt available through " target="_blank">Amazon) And my own hometown Detroit company, General Motors, filed Chapter 11 in - New York City. Texas based Enron filed in - Delaware. Delaware and New York are the courts of choice for big corporations filing Chapter 11. Why? Well, is is something of a cottage industry in Delaware, whose courts have extra judges and personnel, and, incidentally, way more bankruptcy lawyers per capita than anywhere in the world. Because, the Delaware courts… [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 3:40 am
16 May 2012, 4:13 pm
RT.com on May 16, 2012 released the following (edited on May 17, 2012): "The US may consider an application to transfer Viktor Bout, sentenced to 25 years in jail, to serve his prison term in Russia if it sends one, US Attorney General Eric Holder told Russian reporters. The US Attorney General gave an exclusive interview to a number of Russian media outlets. A full interview will be published in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily on Thursday. Russia's Foreign Ministry stated recently that the country… [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 7:47 pm
A recent post inspired some e-mails from readers. My concerns about the possibility of Elizabeth Warren becoming the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau motivated the chairman of a community bank to send me the following e-mail: Professor...
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12 Dec 2011, 5:45 am
We are please to announce that Brenda Furlow has joined AlphaTech Counsel, S.C. Brenda is a great fit at AlphaTech as not only is she an experienced practitioner, she understands the needs of emerging companies. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:45 am
We are please to announce that Brenda Furlow has joined AlphaTech Counsel, S.C. Brenda is a great fit at AlphaTech as not only is she an experienced practitioner, she understands the needs of emerging companies. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 10:00 pm
Stephen Colbert provides his amusing spin on the corruption of big-time college sports by interviewing Taylor Branch, author of the e-book The Cartel, which is an expanded version of Branch's cover story from the October issue of The Atlantic, The Shame of College Sports (H/T Jay Christensen).
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19 Oct 2009, 12:15 pm
This afternoon Justice Department leadership came together in a rare joint event to commemorate the Justice Department’s recognition of October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Attorney General Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli all delivered remarks at the ceremony to celebrate the work that has been done around [...] [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 5:14 am
Over the weekend I stumbled across the materials from the First Annual Meeting of New York Agri-Women and reviewed this excellent article titled “Doing Business in New York State: Structures and Strategies” by Bruce L. Anderson, Brian M. Henehan, and Charles J. Sullivan, Esq. Mr. Sullivan spoke on business organizations at the New York Agri-Women’s annual meeting. If you have not already done so I recommend reviewing this excellent guide.
Exploring business organizations… [read post]
19 May 2011, 10:01 pm
As regular readers know, I have long thought that Timothy Geithner is in over his head as Treasury Secretary. So, it stands to reason that many people continue to listen carefully to what he says, this time at the opening of the new HBO film based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's book about the most recent financial crisis, Too Big to Fail. "You can't prevent people from making mistakes," observed Geithner philosophically. "Taking too much risk and making stupid mistakes may not be a crime." Yeah, right. Try… [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 7:40 pm
Every once in awhile, you find a rant worthy of notice. Compliance expert Nancy Derr-Castiglione's recent "end-of-my-rope" sceeed in the ABA Banking Journal qualifies.
Nancy's bottom line: consumer compliance disclosures currently required by federal and state law in connection with most loan transactions are so dense and so voluminous that they amount to an "unfair and deceptive trade practice" under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Obviously, Nancy's got her tongue planted in her… [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 8:56 am
That depends on the amount of your medical bills. As long as your "reasonable and necessary" medical bills stemming from the car accident are at least $2000.00, then you can bring a claim for pain and suffering against the at-fault driver's insurance company.
There are exceptions to the $2000.00 requirement. Examples are injuries involving broken bones, scarring, or disfigurement, or, a hearing or vision loss, stemming from the accident. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 10:01 pm
A Russian criminal court sentenced former OAO Yukos chairman and CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky to another seven years in prison last week. As if on cue, the mainstream U.S. media reported on the event as a reflection of the capricious and arbitrary nature of the Russian legal system. We really are better than those corrupt Russians, aren't we? Meanwhile, the mainstream media continues to neglect -- and often promotes -- similar mistreatment and persecution of business executives in the U.S. I mean,… [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 1:04 pm
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on September 12, 2012 released the following: "LOS ANGELES- Federal agents this morning arrested 10 defendants who worked at a Rancho Cucamonga-based business that allegedly offered bogus loan modification programs to financially distressed homeowners. As a result of the scheme allegedly run out of 21st Century Real Estate Investment Corp. and several related companies, more than 4,000 financially distressed homeowners lost at least $7 million in fees they… [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 11:04 am
While "das Volk" twist themselves into hernia-inducing pretzels of rage over banks raising fees on checking accounts and/or continuing to impose overdraft fees when a customer "overdrafts," the repercussions of Dodd-Frank ensure that such additional fees (or others) are on their way--like it or not.
Banks in the U.S. are on course to lose a projected $6 billion as a result of the Durbin Amendment, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
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As the financial institutions seek to… [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 10:01 pm
Richard Epstein is typically lucid in taking on the increasingly foreboding regulatory culture that creates barriers for entrepreneurial creation of jobs and wealth: What is to be done about the compliance culture--a culture born in response to excessive regulation--that now threatens to compromise the technological advances that have long spurred innovation in the United States? This sad chronicle of relative decline takes place in three separate stages. The first involves the new mindset that… [read post]