New York lawyer sentenced to 20 years for financial fraud - Xinhua News Agency
NEW YORK, July 13 (Xinhua) — A New York lawyer was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for financial fraud, following arch swindler Bernard Madoff’s imprisonment of 150 years last month. Marc Dreier, a lawyer in Manhattan, admitted he had stole

China lawyer sues judge who handcuffed him to pole - Boston Globe
BEIJING— A lawyer in southern China is suing a judge who ordered him handcuffed to a basketball pole after he refused to sign court documents, a state newspaper reported Tuesday. He Yunxiang called it “illegal imprisonment” after the judge in

Prominent NY lawyer gets 20 years in $400M fraud - BusinessWeek
A once-prominent Manhattan attorney was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for a hatching a massive fraud in a desperate attempt to keep his law firm afloat and bankroll a lavish lifestyle. Marc Dreier, 59, had pleaded guilty to a $400 million

Police believe wife strangled Gatti - Philadelphia Daily News
RIO DE JANEIRO - Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. The woman’s lawyer, however, insists she is innocent and was

Lawyer for Don Hill tries to debunk prosecution’s bribery scenario - WFAA
DALLAS - The defense in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial on Monday tried to poke holes in the government’s contention that former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill masterminded a bribery and extortion scheme that prosecutors say earned him hundreds of