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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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2.2K2$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.
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1.9KTXBODA.ORG: The Board of Disciplinary Appeals Appointed by the Supreme Court of Texas Has Released its 2018 Annual Report and We Have a Copy
In the year of 2018, out of 1,444 complaints, BODA decided 34 cases resulting in final judgments of discipline or disability (2.3%)....
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2.2K1Did You Know: Judges Attending The Federalist Society Breach Ethical Violations In Doing So
In January, a Washington Post Magazine article about the Federalist Society reported that four members of the court, in addition to Roberts, are either...
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1.3KGov. Greg Abbott Wastes no Time Raking in Nearly a Million Dollars a Day in Donations after the Legislative Session Ended
Abbott's haul included two $1 million donations, both from donors who have previously given lavishly to his campaigns: Midland oil mogul Javaid...
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8.6KChicago Cul-De-Sac; Lawyer is Accused of Creating Sham Secured Creditor to Shield Client Assets in Bankruptcy Court
The former partner, Edward Lee Filer, was charged in a July 11 federal indictment with two counts of wire fraud and eight counts of...
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2.9K1Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: Judge Jerry Edwin Smith Profiled
While in that position, Jerry E. Smith made several controversial statements, such as characterizing the League of Women Voters as the plague...
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3.0KA Dirty Bomb and a Dirty Lawyer Appointed to ‘Clean Up’ a Dirty Bank: Deutsche Bank’s Reputation – on the Recommendation of Biggest Investor Qatar
Dirty Lawyer Stefan Simon is still embroiled in a Milan lawsuit over allegations of falsifying the accounts of troubled Italian lender Monte...
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3.1KJudge Carolyn Dineen King [Mrs. Reavley] of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Mr and Mrs Fifth Circuit. Carolyn Dineen King, former Chief Judge, married fellow Circuit Judge Tom Reavley in 2004 and made some...
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1.2KThe Fifth Circuit issues a Foggy Opinion to Support Foreclosure
It is neither clear nor obvious that these objections prevented the Lenders from unilaterally abandoning the acceleration under Texas law. The judgment...
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2.5K5When Should a Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Judge Recuse Themselves? We Take a Look at Judge James ‘Jim’ Ho in this Article
A featured case, Judge Ho sat on Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., where the panel affirmed for the German-Owned Bank, who had...
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1.7KA Nation is Watching (and Listening) to the Fifth Circuit Wordsmithing Opinions in Cases They Have Prejudged but Need to Manipulate
Judges whom we think of as textualists construct their sense of objective meaning from what the evidence that they are willing to...
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4.1KDisbarred former El Paso Judge, Who Served Six Years for Fraud, Accused of Impersonating His Old Self
Former district court Judge Manuel Joseph Barraza, who served six years in prison for allegedly trading sexual acts for favorable rulings, was arrested...
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3.5KNew US District Judge David Morales for the Southern District of Texas Reversed on Suing Donald Trump to Get His Lifetime Position on the Bench
David S. Morales has been confirmed as the newest federal judge for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas....
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3.6K1It’s a Rude Awakening for Former Texas Judge Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Delgado
The jury in the trial of a former Hidalgo County district judge has returned a guilty verdict. Former Judge Rodolfo Rudy Delgado...
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5.6K2Texas Lawyer Absconds with One Million Dollars of Funds Held in His Firms’ Escrow and the Result is a Slap On the Wrist by the State Bar of Texas
Texas lawyer T. Wesley Holmes, 55, of Dallas, agreed to a 48-month active suspension effective May 15, 2019.He was ordered to pay $987,807...
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4.7K2Texas Lawyers Gone Rogue, the July List of Lawyers Disciplined and Hand-Picked for Infractions due to Lack of Connections at the State Bar of Texas
According to State Commission on Judicial Conduct records, Megan Nicole Grigsby, Justice of the Peace Precinct 1 and associate municipal court judge...
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2.4KSex, Drugs and Securitized Mortgages. How Political Influence and MERS made Billionaires in the Financial Services Industry, from Deutsche Bags to Sex Trafficker Epstein
Deutsche Bank only cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein a few MONTHS AGO after an extensive relationship, lending him money and providing trading...
