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Victims’ rights plea denied
The Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to delay a federal judge’s review of a plea bargain settling federal criminal charges growing out of an explosion at a Texas oil refinery in March 2005...

Quoted in today's Times
I'm quoted on the Melvyn Weiss guilty plea, and on the way certain crooks have successfully been passing themselves off as white knights in press coverage of shareholder and consumer litigation...

SFO proposes plea-bargain system for British companies
BRITISH companies will be able to admit bribery offences in return for more lenient sentences under a plea bargain-style system to be put forward by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) this week.

"Weiss of Milberg Weiss Enters Guilty Plea in Deal"
"Weiss of Milberg Weiss Enters Guilty Plea in Deal": Josh Gerstein has this article today in The New York Sun...

Mel Weiss: ?I Deeply Regret My Conduct?
The paperwork on Mel Weiss is pouring out. Click here for the government’s statement; here for the plea agreement itself; and here for a release from Ben Brafman, Weiss’s attorney...

Melvyn Weiss pleads guilty to illegal kickback scheme
Melvyn Weiss will plead guilty to a federal racketeering charge as part of a plea agreement that will lead to a sentence between 18 months and 33 months...

A friend of mine let me borrow car which I believed was his, but which he had stolen. I was driving the car and saw police sirens. Since I was already on the run from something else, i ran from the police in the car. Whe
The best advice I can give you at this point is to consult with you legal adviso...

Victim forced to pay criminal $5,000.00 Why will no Attorney challange AAA?
Money, Power And Greed over Truth and Justice...

My husband's Grandmother died intestate. She had one sole heir, my husband's Father. He and his wife kept paying taxes on the property.Then he also died intestate. Now, my Mother-in-law wants to sell this property. Accor
Based on my research, his wife would have a 1/3 interest in the property. The ot...

Space Heaters
Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. agrees to $500,000 defective product CPSC fine.

Treo Smartphones
Palm Inc. agrees to class action cash rebates for defective phones.

Clean Water Act
Lexington-Fayette County agrees to spend $250 million to fix its sanitary and storm sewer systems.

Inmate Possessions
Washington Department of Corrections agrees to pay current and former inmates $75 each for donating or destroying personal property.

Business Lawsuit
Elbit Imaging Ltd. agrees to pay CP Holdings Ltd. a $5 million settlement.

National Guard
Sangamon County agrees to $20,000 wrongful arrest settlement.