Criminal Law

Border agent arrested for smuggling 100 people www.privateofficer.com
Border agent arrested for smuggling 100 people www.privateofficer.com EL PASO, Texas ? May 17 2008 Border Patrol agent Jesus Huizar along with two other people are sitting in jail charged with smuggling more than 100 illegal immigrants...

7 New York City Corrections Officers Charged After Accepting Bribes To Smuggle Drugs Into Rikers Island Jail
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — Investigators said seven New York City correction officers have been charged with taking bribes from inmates in exchange for smuggling drugs into the Rikers Island jail...

Russia court rules smuggling charges against ex-NGO head unconstitutional
[JURIST] The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation [official website, in Russian] ruled Tuesday that the law under which the former head of media advocacy NGO Educated Media Foundation (EMF) was charged in 2007 was unconstitutionally vague [press release], requiring that smuggling charges against her be dropped...

Recent Legislative Developments on Alien Smuggling
From CRS by way of OpenCRS: Alien Smuggling: Recent Legislative Developments (May 22, 2008)(pdf). Summary: The primary statutory provision proscribing alien smuggling is §274 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)...

Respected Miami Attorney Charged with Money Laundering
A highly-regarded Miami attorney, Ben Kuehne, was charged with money laundering for his role in approving payments to well-known defense lawyer Roy Black that allegedly were funds from a drug smuggling operation of the Medellín cocaine cartel...

Hospital security guards charged with theft from patients www.privateofficer.com
Hosital security guards charged with theft from patients www.privateofficer.com Jersey City NJ May 14 2008 By: Rick McCann Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers www.privateofficer.com After an internal investigation and an investigation by the detectives of the Jersey City police department two former security guards at the Jersey City Medical Center go on trial later this month for allegedly stealing cash and [...

New Jersey Employment Law
alleged violations of New Jersey state labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

T-Mobile USA
alleging the company charged customers for services without their consent.

T-Mobile USA Inc.
allegedly charged customers for unsolicited text messages.

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.

Nvidia and AMD
charged with price-fixing computer GPU (graphics processing units) chips

$31 Million Verdict
Against Camden New Jersey