FEDS: Man Sentenced Yesterday To 105 Years In Offshore Scam That Endangered U.S. Military Filed ‘Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Of Fraudulent Default Judgments’ After Arrest In Previous Scam
Though not using the phrase “sovereign citizen” when describing the courtroom actions of Roger Charles Day Jr., the Department of Justice said yesterday that Day “filed hundreds of billions of dollars of fraudulent default judgments against more than 100 people who Day claimed had prosecuted him unfairly.” Included among Day’s targets were “investigating agents, the […]
BULLETIN: Family Of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor Threatened With Murder And Rape, Feds Say; Glendon Swift Of Lenoir City, Tenn., Arrested; FBI Says Cantor Was Called Vile Names And That Swift Threatened To ‘Destroy’ Him
BULLETIN: A Tennessee man has been arrested by FBI agents and police after making threats against Rep. Eric Cantor and his family, federal prosecutors said. Cantor, R-Va., is U.S. House Majority Leader. Charged with threatening to assault or murder a member of the immediate family of a U.S. official was Glendon Llewellyn Swift, 62, of […]
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Former NASDAQ Managing Director Charged Criminally, Sued Civilly In Insider-Trading Case; Donald L. Johnson Pleads Guilty To Criminal Securities Fraud Amid Allegations He Cherry-Picked Information While Serving As Stock-Exchange Gatekeeper
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: A former managing director of the NASDAQ stock exchange has been charged by both the SEC and federal prosecutors in an insider-trading case. Donald L. Johnson, 56, of Ashburn, Va., already has pleaded guilty on the criminal side of things, the Justice Department said. For its part, the SEC said […]
Feds, State Team Up In Virginia To Short-Circuit White-Collar Crime Wave; ‘All Too Clear’ Problem National In Scope, Top Federal Prosecutor Says
Calling it an “unprecedented partnership” brought about by a financial-fraud problem that is national in scope, federal and state officials today announced the creation of the Virginia Financial and Securities Fraud Task Force. The Virginia Task Force, which is part of President Obama’s interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, brings together criminal investigators and civil […]
Virginia Attorney Whose License Was Revoked After Firm Wrote Bad Checks For Huge Sums Convicted In Ponzi Scheme; Troy Titus Faces Up To 590 Years In Prison
These are some trying times for the legal profession. Disbarred Florida attorney Scott Rothstein is implicated in an alleged $1.2 billion Ponzi fraud in which prosecutors said attorneys from his shuttered, 70-attorney firm in Fort Lauderdale were getting paid from Ponzi proceeds that flowed from bogus “settlements” in cases involving sexual harassment or sexual infidelity. […]