All posts tagged "fraud"

Rewind: 2008 Financial Crisis. The Largest Financial Swindling of Citizens in American History

Victims of wrongful foreclosures find justice absent as the banks perpetuating the crimes against them remain too big to be held accountable.

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Hedge Fund Owner Roared Away with Investors Money While Playing Motorsports Benefactor

Andrew Franzone was charged with defrauding investors of almost $40 million, and a good part went towards funding his extravagant lifestyle.

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Pro Se Filers Face Capricious Clerks and Ambiguous Local Rules At the Federal Fifth Circuit

Pro se’s are being held to a higher standard than the laws and rules require and/or not being applied in a consistent...

FDCPA

Michael and Jennifer Wattles v. Wells Fargo Bank et al, MO

Michael and Jennifer Wattles are suing the lender Wells Fargo and Wachovia for not settling sums due on refinance to list of...

Debt Collector

They Put a Dagger in the Heart of Due Process

Three rogue debt collecting lawyers arrested for thievin' judgments from innocent citizens by falsifying documents. So What's new? The fact these 3...

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Exclusive: LIT’s Obtained the Opening Statement from the Burkes Sizzlin’ Hot Petition for Rehearing

Abuse of the public trust cannot and must not be tolerated. Corrupt practices in government strike at the heart of social order...

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Press Release: Elder Abuse and Crimes Committed by Federal Judges in America

Why Judicial Immunity has killed democracy.

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Lee Farkas, Mortgage Lending Fraudster, Has Sentenced Reduced to Time Served.

U.S. Judge Brinkema ordered the compassionate release of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker's former chairman and CEO, Lee Farkas, due to susceptibility of...

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Appellate Judges

Well Jimmy Choo. Texas Supreme Court to Decide on Transactional Attorney Immunity

Transactional lawyers counsel individuals and organizations on the legal issues generated by their business dealings.

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LIT

Edward Rene Charged and Bonded in TSU Pay-to-Play Scandal. Austin Lane Escapes Charges – To Date.

Former Texas Southern University Law School Asst Dean Edward Wayne Rene formally charged in August 2020. There has been no movement in...

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Appellate Judges

Ex-Lawyer Burt Burnett’s Finally in Jail for Ten Years. Justice is Served. Case Closed.

Former Texas Personal Injury Lawyer Burt Burnett violates probation and is jailed for 10 years - his original sentence which was shockingly...

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Lawyer Complaints

Celebrity LA Lawyer Tom Girardi Bought Favor within State Bar by Providing Grandiose Entertainment

Lawyer Tom Girardi and his celebrity wife, Erika Jayne of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, are accused in a lawsuit of...

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Judges

Florida Judge Deborah Ford-Kraus Removed from the Bench for Dishonesty and Fraud

The JQC determined that Ford-Kaus’s conduct demonstrated a present unfitness to hold judicial office. Accordingly, the JQC recommended that Ford-Kaus be removed...

Eleventh Circuit

Texas Lawyer and ‘Evil’ Co-Conspirator Jail Sentences Affirmed by Eleventh Circuit and Judge Sitting by Designation

The government’s evidence showed that the conspiracy had fraudulently obtained millions of dollars from scores of victims. The district court found Ellis’s...

33 Felonies Down to One Helps this Thievin’ Credit Union CEO Cop to Only a 6 Month Stint in Orange

Former credit union CEO Saundra Torrence originally faced 33 felony counts of embezzlement, theft, fraud and making false entries, but she pleaded...

Michael Erickson, Loan Officer for Southern Bank Jailed for Fraud

A former bank officer, Michael J. Erickson, Mississippi, sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling funds from Southern Bancorp Bank.