Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
The nation's largest nonbank servicer of mortgage loans engaged in multiple illegal practices over a period of four years in the aftermath of the Great Recession, according to a complaint filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and 50 state attorneys general.
North Texas federal prosecutors have charged six men in a scheme that marketed airline travel booked with hacked frequent flier miles. Bruce Tomaso explains.
White-collar federal prosecutors Nick Bunch and Christopher Stokes of Dallas notched another victory for the government last week when Vantage Benefits Administrators co-owners Wendy Richie and Jeffrey Richie were sentenced to several years in prison for their roles in a $15.2 million fraud scheme.
North Texas venture capitalist Patrick O. Howard pleaded guilty Tuesday via video teleconference to running a Ponzi-type scheme and committing federal securities fraud in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Texas Lawbook has details.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit once again ruled against an investor in Stanford International Bank, the notorious Houston-based Ponzi scheme. The ruling likely signals an end to at least one thread of litigation in the 11 years since its $7 billion collapse. Allen Pusey explains.
U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox said the Coppell man "exploited this terrible pandemic for personal gain."
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday that he hired an independent prosecutor because “employees in my office impeded the investigation" and are now making “false allegations” against him as attorney general. Seven high-ranking officials in the Texas Attorney General’s office – nearly all of them longtime supporters and close confidants of Paxton – signed a one-page letter last week claiming Paxton misused his political position as one of the state’s top office holders and may have violated state and federal bribery laws.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing either a major corruption scandal or a misunderstanding of epic proportions, legal experts told The Texas Lawbook on Sunday.
The State Bar of Texas reported its actions regarding lawyer discipline finalized and reported during September.
The SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office filed charges Tuesday claiming that Houston businessman Verley Lee Sembritzky, Jr. and two of his companies – Bounty of the Ocean and Ocean Harvest – violated federal securities laws by operating a fraudulent investment scheme involving a purported Kenyan desalination plant investment project.
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