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2.0KCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan holds Memberships with the Knights of Columbus and the Federalist Society
Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan is a member of the Federalist Society (a conservative law and policy group whose membership has yielded...
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2.8KJudge Gregg Costa, Mortgage Fraud Prosecutor Post Financial Crisis, US District Judge for SDTX and Ethically Did Not Recuse from Priester II in 2019
Gregg Costa: For a lawyer and Judge that was probably the closest to the mortgage fraud by all the lenders post Great...
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1.7K4Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew S. Oldham Is In Breach of Judicial Ethics by His Membership of FedSoc
At age 39, Mr. Oldham is one of the youngest people ever nominated for a federal circuit court judgeship. But despite being...
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1.7K2Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Don Willett and His High Regard for American Idol
Willett: The crass bottom line is that you spend 99 percent of your time raising a colossal fortune that you then use...
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1.6KCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt has a History of Dismissing Sexual Harrassment Cases and Is In Breach of Judicial Ethics by His Membership of FedSoc
Judge Engelhardt concluded Assuming the truth of these allegations, the Court finds that, under existing case law, these alleged instances and any...
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4.7K4Texas Judge Ralph Strother: Facts You Need to Know About the Rapist Case and the Twin Peaks Case
Strother is a Texas judge under fire for allowing former Baylor frat president Jacob Walter Anderson escape prison time, pay a $400...
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2.2KIt’s a Lifetime of $200k p.a. Retirement Income for Sexual Predators called Judges, Fully Paid Up by the Texas TaxPayer to Fund their Future Viagra Parties
Complaints filed by Clevenger likely led to the early retirements of Walter S. Smith Jr., a longtime federal judge in Waco, and...
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2.8K1Attorney Jared Woodfill and Former Judge Paul Pressler are Recent Examples of the Bible State of Texas Politicians Caught in Sex, Lies and Corruption
Documents recently made public show that in 2004, Pressler agreed to pay $450,000 to another former youth group member for physical assault....
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5.2K1Former Chairman of the Harris County Republican Party Jared Woodfill is Under Investigation (again), This Time for Theft of Client Funds
A criminal complaint filed against ex Harris County Republican Party chairman Jared Woodfill in 2017 accuses his firm of taking more than...
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3.1K2How an Ambulance Chaser and Convicted Felon Ron Reynolds Didn’t Need to Turn On the Lights and Sirens to Win His Senate Seat in Texas from His Jail Cell
After his conviction and booking, Texas Senator Ron Reynolds alleged that he was the victim of racial bias and selective prosecution, at...
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12.3K4The Mysterious and Disturbing Case of Casie Gotro is a Prime Example of Texas Controlling its Citizens and its Lawyers
Colleagues, meanwhile, described Gotro’s troubles with the bar and her retreat from the law as a sign that she’d lost faith in...
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1.4KTexas Law Firms are Consolidating and Realizing the Global Office is the Only Head Office in 2019
Our capabilities to serve our clients have definitely been enhanced by the merger, Russell said. “We have a footprint that has been...
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1.7KTrump’s Pick is Walmart Corporation Defender Gene Scalia, son of late Supreme Court Justice Scalia, for Secretary of Labor Vacancy
In 2005, Walmart hired Scalia to defend against whistleblower lawsuits by employees who alleged wrongdoing in the company. Scalia also helped overturn...
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2.2KThe Legal Turk has Arrived at his Confirmation to the God-Fearing Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and Texas is Not Amused
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Cruz Texas questioned Halil Suleyman Sul Ozerden record as a constitutionalist. His remarks come amid broader...
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1.4KCFPB is Inviting Sponsorship Deals and Has Started with a Prepaid Credit Card Offer from H&R Block
This episode seems to be part and parcel of the dramatic remaking of the CFPB in the hands of Trump, who in...
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1.9KWe Called It: Banks and Lenders are Foreclosing on Business Owners Who Didn’t Have the Income and Assets to Maintain Commercial Mortgages
Simon Baron is one of a handful of developers facing what industry experts expect to be an increasing number of foreclosures as...
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2.2K1Judge Carolyn Dineen King [Mrs. Reavley] in 1988 Provided the Fifth Circuit a Precedent for Mortgage Application Fraud. In 2015, the 5th Circuit Ignored it, and Again in 2018 in Deutsche Bank v Burke
As we agree with the district court that the false statements had the capacity to influence a savings and loan institution's decision...
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2.1K2$5.4 Million Dollar Mortgage Fraud Gets Texas Attorney 3 Years Prison but a Non-Lawyer in Texas gets 13 Years Prison for $1.8 Million. Justice.
Lawyer v Non-Lawyer Mortgage Bank Fraud Sentencing in S.D. Federal Court(s) in Texas; the Disparity is Clear and Obvious.
