By Andrew Denney | April 20, 2017
A Queens attorney convicted of stealing more than $587,000 from the estate of the late John Phillips Jr., a Brooklyn Civil Court judge who once held $10 million worth of properties in the borough, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison.
By Sue Reisinger | April 20, 2017
Christopher Keays, a native of Scotland, was 27 years old and fresh out of the maritime academy in the summer of 2013 when he got "the chance of a lifetime" to work on a ship, as a junior engineer with the Caribbean Princess. Today he is a millionaire. A federal judge in Miami awarded Keays $1 million Wednesday for blowing the whistle on the Princess Cruise Lines' illegal dumping of oily waste into the ocean.
By Andrew Denney | April 19, 2017
A joint trial of ex-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and Evan Greebel, his co-defendant in a fraud case and his former lawyer, would present a "serious risk" that Shkreli would not receive a fair trial, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.
By John Council | April 18, 2017
Plano attorney Jason Van Dyke thought he'd be starting a new job this month as an assistant district attorney in Victoria County so he shut down his solo law office and placed a contract on a house in what he thought would be his new hometown. But two weeks before Van Dyke was to start his new position, the job offer was rescinded with no explanation, he said.
By Andrew Denney | April 17, 2017
The man who was given a life sentence for working with Osama bin Laden to orchestrate the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa was ready to argue on appeal Monday that prosecutors have not produced clear evidence linking him to a terrorist plot.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 14, 2017
The sudden death of a judge often resonates across the legal community under any circumstances.
By Andrew Denney | April 12, 2017
There's no word from the White House as to who may be the next U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, but in recent weeks Republican congressmen from the New York metropolitan area have met with possible contenders.
By Lizzy McLellan | April 12, 2017
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined to take up another appeal by Bill Cosby in his criminal case.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | April 11, 2017
Federal prosecutors in Western Pennsylvania tried and failed two times to get a conviction for a felon's possession of a gun, and now a federal judge is denying their request for a third bite at the apple.
By Andrew Denney | April 10, 2017
Three district attorney's offices have scheduled warrant clearance programs for the coming months.
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