In the latest example of claimed rampant fraud in federal income tax-refund applications, federal authorities have frozen more than 1,000 student financial services accounts at a single Florida college.
An expensive settlement of a dispute over an employment agreement between New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and a cousin who worked as his personal assistant came to light when…
The ABA has filed an amicus brief urging the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to grant en banc review in a challenge to a Florida law that restricts…
Attorneys at a Georgia law firm who served as trusted advisors to a PGA star golfer stole $3 million of his money through a theft and embezzlement scheme, a federal…
A former employee of a Florida court clerk’s office is serving three years for selling information from a driver’s license database to Derek Denesevich.
A fired Toronto Dominion Bank executive has been federally indicted in a wire fraud and conspiracy case, accused of aiding now-disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein in a $1.2 billion investment fraud.
A special committee led by 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Gerald Tjoflat will investigate an Alabama federal judge accused of assaulting his wife.
A Georgia lawyer’s plan to split a personal-injury settlement into two checks in an alleged attempt to avoid reimbursing a client’s employer for medical costs has turned out to be…
A SWAT-like raid by police who were searching for barbers’ license violations constituted an unlawful search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, a federal appeals court says.
It isn’t just football players who are facing career blowback over claimed domestic violence incidents. A federal judge arrested last month after a dispute with his wife in an Atlanta…
A former Georgia lawyer who, until last year, served as leader of the state Democratic party, was indicted last week based on accusations that he cheated his own clients out…
A federal appeals court has revived a Fourth Amendment claim by an Atlanta lawyer who says she was injured by a courthouse deputy who grabbed her cellphone after she refused…