According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a petition was filed Wednesday in Milwaukee County Court to have Michael Imanu Jackson’s name legally changed to Michael Imanu McGee. This situation just adds to the controversy surrounding the City of Milwaukee Alderman, […]
New York litigator Edward W. Hayes was accused of legal malpractice for sleeping through his client’s deposition. In 2003, Hayes was retained by Robert Flutie to defend companies he owned against a suit brought by the trustee of a bankruptcy […]
Richard Purtich, a Los Angeles Attorney, has pleaded guilty to a felony tax charge related to allegations that he illegally acted as a pass-through for money paid to a client of indicted law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman. The […]
Your personal information is not safe anywhere, it seems!!! The names, addresses, birthdates, and[tag] social security numbers[/tag] of 26.5 million U.S. Veterans were stolen from the home of a[tag] Veterans Affairs[/tag] employee. The employee (a “midlevel data analyst”) apparently brought […]
Bill Mortimore, the founder and former chief executive of [tag]Merge Technologies[/tag] Inc., has been named interim chief executive officer. This follows the resignation of CEO Richard Linden, who resigned after problems with the company’s financial statements were found and the […]
Lucky me! My social security number, along with my name and address, have been compromised by the [tag]American Institute of Certified Public Accountants[/tag] ([tag]AICPA[/tag]). They say that a computer of theirs failed, and someone sent out the hard drive for […]
The [tag]Association of Certified Fraud Examiners[/tag] puts on the largest anti-fraud conference in the world each July. This year the meeting is in Las Vegas, and I expect 2,000 attendees. I’ve been ask to present on marketing a [tag]fraud[/tag] examination […]
UnitedHealth Group Inc. may have to [tag]restate[/tag] some financial data as a result of [tag]improper accounting[/tag] related to the grant of [tag]stock options[/tag]. All told, the changes and loss of some tax benefits may mean a reduction of $286 million […]
The “Survivors’ Staircase”, the only remaining above-ground portion of the Twin Towers, might be demolished to make way for a new office tower. This Vesey Street staircase was the path to survival for many fleeing the World Trade Center on […]
Daniel Biechele, the former band manager whose pyrotechnics caused the February 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that left 100 dead, was sentenced to four years in prison. The families of victims were hoping for more prison time, since the maximum […]
