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Testing firm sues NYC to lift license suspensions
Attorney Career |
2009/01/27 15:15
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| A company accused of faking tests on concrete and steel at the new Yankee Stadium, the Freedom Tower and over 100 other projects is suing New York City to lift suspensions of their licenses.pTestwell Inc. asserts in state Supreme Court papers that the city suspended its licenses unlawfully in October after the company was indicted on enterprise corruption charges. Testwell says the charges have not been proven./ppTestwell says an administrative law judge recommended lifting the suspensions but last week the city rejected that recommendation./ppThe city Law Department says it is reviewing Testwell's court papers. The city has been attempting to retest concrete and steel handled by Testwell on some buildings, although prosecutors say no weaknesses have been found. /p |
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FBI: Long Island investment firm boss surrenders
Legal Center |
2009/01/26 15:15
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| The owner of a Long Island investment firm accused of cheating people out of more than $100 million is expected to appear in court Tuesday.pFBI spokesman Jim Margolin says Nicholas Cosmo surrendered at a U.S. Postal Inspection Service office in Hicksville on Monday night./ppCosmo runs Agape World Inc. in Hauppauge (HAW'-pawg). He's accused of taking in $300 million from investors and cheating them out of about $140 million./ppA letter hanging in Cosmo's office window denies there was any Ponzi scheme, the type of fraud Bernard Madoff (MAY'-dawf) is accused of committing. A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme promises unusually high returns and pays early investors with money from later investors./ppDefense attorneys at the Herrick Feinstein law firm haven't returned telephone calls seeking comment. /p |
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Four Potter Anderson Attorneys Recognized in The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers 2009
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2009/01/08 14:24
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Attorneys of the law firm of Potter Anderson amp; Corroon LLP have been selected as among the top corporate governance lawyers in the country by Law Business Research Limited.nbsp; Partners Michael D. Goldman, Michael A. Pittenger and Donald J. Wolfe Jr. and of counsel Robert K.nbsp; Payson, were selected for the Who’s Who Legal publication, The International Who’s Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers.nbsp; The attorneys are members of the firm’s Corporate Group.
The publication identifies private practice lawyers with a proven track record in providing corporate governance advise to boards of directors and substantial privately held entities in connection with corporate disclosure governance and policy issues, as well as dealing with new laws, regulations, stock exchange rules and governance principles.
Research is conducted by Law Business Research Limited, a publisher of research, analysis and reporting on international business law and policy and the business of international law. In 2004, Law Business Research Limited became the official research partner of the International Bar Association, in 2006 it won the Queen's Award for Enterprise and in 2008 it became the strategic research partner of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law. |
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John Q. Kelly on Natalee Holloway Case - Fox News
Attorney Career |
2009/01/05 14:18
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a href=http://www.kellygrouppc.comNatalie Holloway /aAttorney John Q. Kelly
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: And, finally, the Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos, responds. John Q. Kelly, the Holloway family attorney, has been trying to get Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos on the phone. Mos did leave him a rather nasty voicemail the other day. But now Hans Mos has responded to a letter from Kelly.
So what did Mos say in this response? a href=http://www.kellygrouppc.comJohn Q. Kelly/a joins us. John, what did he say?
a href=http://www.kellygrouppc.comJOHN Q. KELLY, HOLLOWAY FAMILY ATTORNEY/a: It's basically two-fold. One is that Joran [van der Sloot] has given different versions of the same event, so they can't be bothered with it.
And, two, they have no interest in any evidence or information that might assist him at this point.
VAN SUSTEREN: That is cute. The key is if you want to commit a crime, go to Aruba and tell three stories, because they will not investigate you and they won't look to corroborate. That's lesson number one. That's good advice.
You ask to have him arrested. What happens about that?
KELLY: He said we have no basis for it. This is the first time we have had any information that has been corroborated. He says he father was engaged in a cover-up, and it turns out that the chief of police and Paulus [van der Sloot], it has been confirmed that they hindered the prosecution. We have taped conversations that confirmed the boys talking about hoping that Natalee, or fearing that she may be alive. There are cell phone pings as to locations of Joran down by the fisherman's hut. There are all kinds of things independently that confirm what Joran is saying now, and they just won't listen.
VAN SUSTEREN: I know that he doesn't like us here at On the Record. And I will make this promise tonight-we will stop being the monkey on his back if he does any investigation at all.
But I can tell you one thing. We have learned new information that a member of the Dutch parliament, Hero Brinkman, he is about to raise holy hell on Hans Mos. He is going down to Aruba in early January.
And if Hans Mos does not like us, wait until he gets a hold of this member of parliament, because he says that Aruba is corrupt as hell I think were his words, not mine.
KELLY: Greta, can I take you to the woodshed on one thing? I think people have to understand that even thought it was five months before your aired your interview with Joran that Hans Mos was made aware of it and the substance of it in great detail almost immediately, and he had no interest in following.
span style=font-weight: boldRead the entire interview at Fox News/span - a href=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465291,00.htmlClick Here/a |
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Grocery Wholesaler in Federal Antitrust Action
Legal Center |
2009/01/05 08:48
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The nation's two largest grocery wholesalers, Supervalu and Camp;S Wholesale, conspired to allocate territories, restrain competition and inflate prices, according to a federal antitrust class action. Gary's Foods claims the defendants competed until 2003, when Vermont-based Camp;S decided to go after Supervalu territory in the Midwest.
nbsp; nbsp; Rather than extend their competition to the Midwest or continue to compete in New England, the Defendants conspired to allocate territories: Supervalu agreed to
nbsp; nbsp; exit New England in return for Camp;S's commitment not to enter Wisconsin, Iowa, and other states in the Midwest, the complaint states. This scheme has caused substantial harm to retailers: prices for wholesale sales and services have been inflated, fewer manufacturer discounts have been passed on to retailers, and the supply of wholesale sales and services has been artificially reduced.
The two defendants have combined annual revenue of $28 billion,according to the complaint. Gary's also claims the defendantsfraudulently concealed their conspiracy. Gary's demands treble damagesand punitive damages for the class. It is represented by Daniel Kotchenwith Kotchen amp; Low of Washington, D.C. |
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Judge Upholds Detention of Two Gitmo Detainees
Court Watch |
2009/01/02 09:27
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A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the U.S. government is properly imprisoning two people as enemy combatants in Guantanamo - the first legal victory for the Bush administration in the issue for a long time, and the first of an expected 200 or more similar cases.
nbsp; nbsp; U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., was the jurist who ruled about a month ago that the Bush administration had illegally imprisoned five Algerians at Guantanamo for nearly 7 years. He ordered the administration to release them.
nbsp; nbsp; The recent case involved a Yemeni, Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi, and a Tunisian, Hisham Sliti.
nbsp; nbsp; Judge Leon found that Sliti was an al Qaeda recruit who attended a military training camp in Afghanistan.
nbsp; nbsp; Judge Leon ruled that though there was no proof that al Alwi had made war upon U.S. forces, his ties to the Taliban were sufficient to justify his imprisonment as an enemy combatant. |
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