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...lawyer, Howard Kleinhendler, of Wachtel & Masyr LLP, is following the money trail and believes Madoff's Chase account was "suspicious" and should have been shut down the moment the bank pulled its funds from Fairfield Greenwich. Kleinhendler represents a dozen Madoff victims. (Read "Madoff Victims Look for Ways to Recover Their Money...
...than four years earlier this decade, two senior county juvenile-court judges in northeastern Pennsylvania took kickbacks of $2.6 million in exchange for packing thousands of kids off to privately owned detention centers. Many of the kids had committed minor offenses and didn't have the benefit of a lawyer. A 14-year-old from Wilkes-Barre, for instance, spent a year in a Glen Mills detention facility for the offense of stealing loose change from unlocked cars to buy a bag of chips; he was only set free after public-interest lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the punishment...
...memos authored by John Yoo, a Cheney protégé at the Office of Legal Counsel, which critics say authorized the mistreatment of terrorist suspects. Pressure is also growing on the department to release the report of an internal ethics probe into the actions of Yoo and two other OLC lawyers. Many Democrats would like to see Yoo and Cheney's own lawyer, David Addington, investigated for their role in creating the Bush Administration's so-called torture doctrine. And on the weekend of Cheney's CNN appearance, a leaked Red Cross report on the treatment of Gitmo prisoners used...
...original version of this story misstated where the lawyer Michael Gu works. He left the firm Allen & Overy last year, and is now at the Zhong Lun Law Firm...
...Shaq Rookie Card Group: As all Harvard College athletes go on to the big leagues to make the big bucks, they should only associate with other athletes who they can be sure aren’t parasites gaming to one day be their agent, lawyer, accountant, or Kabbala guru. Living with other athletes would be a paradise for you. You could have a Matt Christopher book club—solely with your roommates! Think of the new insights you’ll glean for your Gov thesis on “The Kid Who Only Hit Homers...