A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a key money laundering charge against a prominent Miami defense lawyer accused of laundering Colombian drug proceeds to pay legal fees.
A partnership operated by a well-known South Florida lawyer and forensic accountant has been placed in receivership as federal investigators attempt to track down $3.6 million from bank accounts overseen…
In the midst of a dismal real estate market, a 46-year-old Florida lawyer has found a full-time occupation. He focuses his practice entirely on real estate matters, often helping formerly…
A disbarred Florida lawyer caught representing a client in federal court after he lost his license to practice expected to plead guilty to criminal contempt.
The FBI reportedly has raided the offices of a well-known attorney and accountant who often as served as a court-appointed trustee or receiver in cases in South Florida.
Attorney Orly Taitz was already facing a threatened $10,000 sanction from an aggravated federal judge last month, after he told her never to pursue a “frivolous” suit again and she…
Complaints by 25 individuals from at least 11 states that their denture cream is unduly dangerous are being consolidated into a mass tort case before a federal judge in Miami.
A Florida billionaire’s secret non-prosecution deal with the feds in an investigation of conduct that eventually resulted in his plea to state-court prostitution-related felonies was unsealed today. And it revealed…
As a Sept. 23 deadline looms for tax-evaders to obtain lesser penalties by disclosing offshore accounts to the Internal Revenue Service, one observer predicts that a federal probe of foreign…
Reviving a malpractice claim against attorneys at the former Powell Goldstein that could potentially cost as much as $25 million to $30 million if it is successful, a federal district…
A former government attorney at the helm of Monroe County, Fla., legal matters has been resentenced after a federal appeals court said his original five-year probation term in a public…
At the same time that the United States was prosecuting five Cuban intelligence agents in Miami nearly a decade ago, the government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting was also paying local…
A federal judge today began hearing arguments in a constitutional case initially brought pro se by a Georgia sex offender over a new state law requiring him to provide his…
A defendant in what federal prosecutors describe as a hacking and identity theft case of record-breaking scope was a computer addict who spent much of his free…