Mark Hamblett

November 18, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos used the power of his office to line the pockets of his son by extorting payments from companies that needed legislative help, a prosecutor told a federal jury Tuesday, while Skelos' attorney said jurors would hear about "a concerned, involved father, not a criminal co-conspirator."

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

November 18, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jurors in the criminal trial against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver heard audio recordings on Tuesday of Silver repeatedly telling reporters that his only outside income came from representing "ordinary" people in personal injury actions, not corporations and no one with business before the state.

By Mark Hamblett and Christine Simmons

6 minute read

November 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Jurors in the criminal trial against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver heard audio recordings on Tuesday of Silver repeatedly telling reporters that his only outside income came from representing "ordinary" people in personal injury actions, not corporations and no one with business before the state.

By Mark Hamblett and Christine Simmons

6 minute read

November 17, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A former banker who won a new trial because of a lying juror in the Jenkens & Gilchrist fraudulent tax shelter case was granted a deferred prosecution agreement Monday.

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

A former banker who won a new trial because of a lying juror in the Jenkens & Gilchrist fraudulent tax shelter case was granted a deferred prosecution agreement Monday.

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 16, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The extent of political corruption among Albany's fallen political leaders will play out in another Lower Manhattan courtroom Monday as prosecutors and defense lawyers pick a jury in the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

November 13, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The extent of political corruption among Albany's fallen political leaders will play out in another Lower Manhattan courtroom Monday as prosecutors and defense lawyers pick a jury in the trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam.

By Mark Hamblett

6 minute read

November 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Arthur Luxenberg, cofounder of the personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg, said Tuesday that Sheldon Silver spoke to him in 2010 about the decline in lucrative patient referrals he was getting from Dr. Robert Taub at Columbia Medical Center. Silver "was unconcerned" and "expected the referrals to continue," Luxenberg said.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read

November 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

The Second Circuit said the attorney-client privilege protected documents shared between George Schaeffler of the automotive and industrial parts supplier The Schaeffler Group and a consortium of banks that financed his efforts to buy Continental AG, because the consortium and Schaeffler had "a common legal interest in the tax treatment of a refinancing and corporate restructuring."

By Mark Hamblett

4 minute read

November 12, 2015 | New York Law Journal

Arthur Luxenberg, cofounder of the personal injury firm Weitz & Luxenberg, said Tuesday that Sheldon Silver spoke to him in 2010 about the decline in lucrative patient referrals he was getting from Dr. Robert Taub at Columbia Medical Center. Silver "was unconcerned" and "expected the referrals to continue," Luxenberg said.

By Mark Hamblett

5 minute read