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Ponzi scheme of the week: SEC charges two CA men who targeted Korean-Americans

Posted on June 10, 2009
A Los Altos man and his Danville business partner were charged in civil proceedings by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday with running an $80 million Ponzi scheme targeting Korean-American investors. Peter Son and Jin K. Chung had about...

Venable adds eight tax & estate planning attorneys to their LA office

Posted on June 10, 2009
The Los Angeles office of Venable LLP added eight Los Angeles attorneys - seven from the firm Reish Luftman Reicher & Cohen and one from Freeman, Freeman & Smiley LLP. The new Venable partners include Brad Cohen, Michael Foster, Robin...

Slot machine cap prompts tribes' suits

Posted on June 10, 2009
On multiple fronts, tribes are challenging a California slot machine limit set under 1999 gambling compacts with 61 tribes. While individual tribes were allowed up to 2,000 slot machines, the state imposed a 32,151 statewide limit on the calculation that...

Back to the drawing board for the Fisheries and Wildlife Services

Posted on June 10, 2009
Judge Marilyn Patel of the U.S. District Court of Northern California ruled that federal agencies violated the Endangered Species Act when they reviewed plans on how to manage Los Padres National Forest and three other Southern California forests. Both the...

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Newly discovered recording may clear Numero Uno founder of racketeering charges

Posted on June 10, 2009
George Torres, founder of a successful chain of 11 Numero Uno supermarkets, was ordered released from jail yesterday on $1 million bond after federal prosecutors discovered a recording that may exonerate him in racketeering charges asserting he ordered a rival...

WaMu and JPM accused of squeeze-and-freeze in SoCal suit

Posted on June 10, 2009
Michell Kimball, a San Diego-area resident who took out a $500,000 home equity credit line from Washington Mutual in the fall of 2007, has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and WaMu, alleging the two companies illegally reduced or froze...

Wilton Rancheria regains recognition

Posted on June 09, 2009
U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel on Monday announced his approval of a settlement that restores federal recognition to the Wilton Rancheria, one of 41 California tribes that lost official status as a result of federal legislation passed in 1958...

FBI justifies informant use despite complaints

Posted on June 09, 2009
Yesterday FBI Director Robert Mueller defended the agency's use of informants within U.S. mosques, despite complaints from Muslim organizations that worshippers and clerics are being targeted instead of possible terrorists. "We don't investigate places, we investigate individuals," Mueller said during...

Julian goes out on career highpoint

Posted on June 09, 2009
Federal prosecutor Ken Julian is leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office. He has spent the last 11 and a half years as a federal prosecutor, eight in Orange County. During that time he has tried 15 federal cases, all of which...

Attorneys say we'll soon be soaking in claims of 'greenwashing'

Posted on June 08, 2009
The so-called green movement has sprouted a fresh crop of lawsuits: greenwashing claims, in which companies are getting sued for making bogus eco-friendly statements about their products. Among the recent suits: In March, a consumer filed a class action against...

Dasher on for Roos

Posted on June 08, 2009
Last month we reported the rumor that Wilson Sonsini's John Roos had been chosen by the Obama administration as the ambassador to Japan. The choice of a Washington outsider with no obvious Japan experience raises a lot of questions. Richard...

Dole finds new documentary to be a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham

Posted on June 08, 2009
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney ruled in late April that the attorney who serves as the centerpiece of a new documentary called ?Bananas!? was involved in a ?blatant extortion? of Dole Food Corp. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the documentary paints...

SEC charges Countrywide's Mozilo, Sambol & Sieracki in civil fraud suit

Posted on June 05, 2009
Federal regulators yesterday charged Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive officer of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp., and two other company executives with civil fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission?s civil lawsuit, filed in federal District Court in Los Angeles,...

Scruggs steroid distribution falls flat in court, faces 25-year sentence

Posted on June 05, 2009
U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello and DEA Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Dr. Ramon Scruggs, a Tustin doctor who counted former Angels Troy Glaus and Scott Schoeneweis as patients, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to illegally...

Orange County 'mosque spy" seeks $10 million from FBI

Posted on June 05, 2009
Craig Monteilh, a fitness consultant from Irvine who says he spied on mosques for the FBI, has filed a claim alleging the agency did not pay him for his services and allowed him to be sent to prison for actions...

Government center part of unprecedented "safety zone" in gang injunction

Posted on June 04, 2009
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant granted a new injunction against the Barrio Van Nuys gang, singling out the Van Nuys government center and the Van Nuys High School as part of a "safety zone" needing special protection...

Budget crisis closes Ventura County clerk's offices an hour early, daily

Posted on June 04, 2009
The Ventura County Superior Court has announced that its clerk's offices will close for one hour early every day beginning on July 1. The clerk's office will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., rather than the customary 5...

New partners for Dykema and Venable in LA

Posted on June 03, 2009
Dykema and Venable LLP each announced the addition of a new partner to their Los Angeles offices yesterday. Thomas F. Hanley III made a lateral move from Freeman, Freeman & Smiley to join Dykema?s Real Estate Practice Group, while labor...

San Diego appeals court awards Starbucks a venti reversal

Posted on June 03, 2009
A California appeals court reversed a ruling that had ordered Starbucks Corp. to pay more than $100 million in restitution for allowing shift supervisors to share baristas' tips. A class-action lawsuit brought by Jou Chau, a former barista, alleged that...

Irell & Manella's contract with San Bernardino County doubles as assessor lawsuit continues

Posted on June 03, 2009
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday doubled the county's contract with attorney John C. Hueston so he can take the lead in a lawsuit against former Assessor Bill Postmus. Postmus, four of his former executive staff members...

Student's suicide ruled 'unforeseeable and extraordinary' but not result of negligence

Posted on June 03, 2009
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Ontario-Montclair School District cted appropriately in disciplining four students who skipped school to attend an immigration rally, even though one boy was so traumatized by threatened punishments that he committed suicide...

Weiss-supportive firms must build bridges to Nuch, say experts

Posted on June 03, 2009
Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich ? an environmental litigator at Trutanich-Michel, a boutique firm in Long Beach, Calif. ? defeated Jack Weiss, a prominent Los Angeles city councilman, and became city attorney with more than 55% of the vote on May 19....

Settlement may finally spoil Bratz litigation

Posted on June 03, 2009
According to the LA Business Journal, a settlement may be imminent in the Bratz brouhaha. An order issued Tuesday by federal court judge Stephen Larson referred to a settlement conference that was held in Los Angeles on Monday. The order...

One kickback scheme, five lawsuits

Posted on June 03, 2009
No fewer than five lawsuits have been filed related to the arrest of Ausaf "Omar'' Siddiqui, a former executive at Fry's Electronics. Siddiqui was charged for allegedly masterminding a multimillion dollar kickback scheme to fuel his gambling habit. Siddiqui was...

Federal judge allows seals to return to San Diego - for now

Posted on June 02, 2009
Yesterday U.S. District Court Judge William Hayes reaffirmed his order blocking the city government from doing anything to roust seals from the Children's Pool beach in La Jolla. The clash between federal law, which calls for protecting the seals, and...

Injunction aims to put Norte�os on notice

Posted on June 02, 2009
On Monday the Solano County District Attorney's Office filed for an injunction in Solano County Superior Court against the local branch of the Norte�os gang. The complaint seeks injunctive relief to abate a public nuisance. District Attorney David Paulson said...

Parole agent settlement reaches $900,000

Posted on June 02, 2009
Rebecca Hernandez, a Southern California parole agent who filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation two years ago, has been awarded a $900,000 settlement. A supervisor in the agency's Huntington Park parole unit, Hernandez had sued...

Emulex wants the skinny on Nicholas before Broadcom takeover

Posted on June 02, 2009
Emulex Corp. has asked a court to block a $764-million hostile takeover bid from Irvine chip maker Broadcom Corp. until Broadcom comes clean about messy criminal charges pending against its former chief executive, Henry Nicholas III. The lawsuit, which was...

Trutanich names chief deputy, chief of staff and transition team

Posted on June 02, 2009
Los Angeles City Attorney-elect Carmen Trutanich Friday named former chief deputy district attorney Curt Livesay as his chief deputy and former Assistant U.S. Attorney William W. Carter as his chief of staff. Carter is currently a partner with Musick Peeler...

Lawsuits hope to stop proposed NFL stadium in Industry

Posted on June 02, 2009
On Sunday a new round of lawsuits were filed against the NFL Stadium being built in Industry, citing the Brown Act as their legal grounds. The Brown Act, which was put into California legislation back in 1953, prohibits secret meetings...

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