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Murdoch foam attacker gets 6 weeks in jail
Legal Career News |
2011/08/02 12:01
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Police investigating phone hacking and police bribery at defunct British tabloid News of the World on Tuesday arrested a man, believed to be a former executive at the newspaper. The Metropolitan Police said a 71-year-old man had been arrested by appointment Tuesday morning at a London police station. They did not name him in keeping with the British police practice of not identifying suspects who have not been charged. Sky News, which is 39 percent owned by the newspaper's parent company, News Corp., identified him as former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner. Kuttner retired in 2009 after 29 years at the News of the World, 22 of them as managing editor. News International — Murdoch's British newspaper division — would not confirm the arrested man's identity. Police said he was in custody and being questioned on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications — phone hacking — and on suspicion of corruption, which relates to claims that journalists bribed police officers for information. Detectives investigating claims the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of celebrities, politicians and even crime victims have previously arrested 10 people, including Murdoch's former British newspaper chief Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, an ex-News of the World editor who went on to be Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief. |
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Mark Wahlberg to Produce MAFIA DRAMA of Chicago's Mob Lawyer
Attorneys News |
2011/08/02 08:02
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Mark Wahlberg to Produce MAFIA DRAMA of Chicago's Mob Lawyer, Bob Cooley, taking down the Mob- LBI Exclusive Interview
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE: When Corruption Was King......comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Mark Wahlberg.Mark Wahlberg has come aboard to produce and star in the mafia drama When Corruption Was King for Paramount Pictures.The story centers on a Chicago lawyer, Bob Cooley, who rose through the ranks to become a trusted member of an organized crime family.
When he turns states evidence, he tries to take the mob downThe Nationally syndicated radio show, The LawBusiness Insider proudly presents an Exclusive Interview with former Mafia Lawyer and Chicago Cop, Robert Cooley discussing his new Bestseller, “WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING- Robert CooleyLISTEN to an Exclusive interview with Bob Cooley now: http://lbishow.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=356:featured-guest-bob-cooley&catid=51:americas-best-selling-authors-series
Once he ran the streets like a dark prince -- bar-hopping with mob chieftains, betting as much as a million dollars a week and doling out bribes to fix murder trials. But at age 37, corrupt attorney Robert J. Cooley got a second chance at life, a shot at redemption.
Sickened by the arrogance and brutality of his mob pals, Cooley became an undercover FBI operative. For 3 1/2 harrowing years starting in 1986, he wore a hidden wire, taping crime bosses and politicians as they rigged everything from felony cases to zoning decisions even a state insurance law.
Bob Cooley was the Chicago Mafia’s “Mechanic”—a fixer of court cases. During the 1970s and ’80s, Cooley bribed judges, court clerks, and cops to keep his Mob clients—hit men, bookies, racketeers, and crooked pols— out of jail. Paid handsomely for his services, he lived fast and enjoyed the protection of the men he served
This is the story of a Mob lawyer turned mole with a million-dollar contract on his head who has clanged back and forth between sin and sainthood like a church bell clapper—a turbulent youth, a stint on Chicago’s police force, law school, and then the inner sanctum of Chicago’s leading mobsters and corrupt political officials.
With wild abandon he chased crooked acquittals for the likes of Pat Marcy, an Al Capone protégé, who had become the Mob’s key political operative; ruthless Mafia Capo and gambling czar Marco D’Amico; and notorious hit man Harry Aleman.
He dined with Mob bosses and shared “last suppers” with friends before their gangland executions. Cooley watched as Marcy and the Mob controlled the courts, the cops, and the politicians.
Then, in a startling act of conscience, he walked into the office of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force and, without a pending conviction or a hit man on his tail, agreed to wear a wire on the same Mafia overlords who had made him a player.
WHEN CORRUPTION WAS KING- http://www.whencorruptionwasking.com |
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Oklahoma Supreme Court sets hearing in bribery case
Lawyer Blog News |
2011/08/01 15:38
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has agreed to hear a former state senator's request to dismiss a bribery charge against her and scheduled oral arguments for September.
Former Sen. Debbe Leftwich, D-Oklahoma City, faces bribery charges along with Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore. Prosecutors say Terrill offered Leftwich an $80,000-a-year job at the state Medical Examiner's Office in exchange for Leftwich not running for re-election and clearing the way for Republican Rep. Mike Christian of Oklahoma City to run. Christian has not been charged a crime and is expected to be a witness.
Leftwich's attorney, Robert McCampbell, filed a motion to dismiss the charge that maintains Leftwich is exempt from prosecution for alleged wrongdoing in the performance of her professional duties under the speech and debate clause of the Oklahoma Constitution.
The court scheduled oral arguments from her defense, Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater and attorneys for the Oklahoma Senate for Sept. 13, according to an entry posted Thursday on the Supreme Court's website. The entry also says Leftwich's case is on hold until the court makes a decision.
The Senate's attorneys also will have a chance to express lawmakers' concerns about language in a recent Court of Criminal Appeals decision denying Leftwich's motion to dismiss, the entry said. |
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Layoffs loom in Ala. court clerks' offices
Headline News |
2011/08/01 15:37
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A month-long notice has begun for massive layoffs in state court clerks' offices.
The Birmingham News reports that court officials say about one-third of the 750 employees in clerks' offices statewide will be laid off effective Aug. 31.
The officials say the layoffs are timed so the 255 workers will be off the state payroll before the court system's new, leaner budget takes effect Oct. 1.
The Jefferson County clerk's offices, which handle more than 75,000 filings per year, will be down to 48 full-time clerks and three temporary workers after the layoffs.
Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb has ordered clerks' offices statewide to be closed to the public for 10 hours weekly starting in August to give the workers time to catch up on processing court documents. |
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NJ high court to rule in case of retired judge
Court Feed News |
2011/08/01 15:36
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New Jersey's Supreme Court has upheld the censure of a retired Superior Court judge.
Steven Perskie was disciplined in March for not recusing himself in a timely fashion from a case involving his former campaign treasurer. A state Supreme Court committee also found Perskie was not forthcoming in his remarks to a Senate committee about the incident when he was facing re-appointment.
Today's ruling found Perskie shouldn't have rejected a request during a 2006 case that he recuse himself. He later recused himself for different reasons.
The court also found that Perskie didn't intentionally mislead the Senate committee when he answered questions about the incident.
Perskie served on the Superior Court in Atlantic County and retired in January 2010. He also served as a state legislator. |
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DeMocker defense says former lawyer will keep mum
Criminal Law Updates |
2011/08/01 13:35
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Lawyers for a Prescott stockbroker facing a murder retrial say they won't allow his former defense attorney to give a deposition in the case.
John Sears is one of two attorneys who quit Steven DeMocker's case in October, citing a conflict of interest. The move triggered a mistrial in November.
Deputy Yavapai County Attorney Jeffrey Paupore filed a motion last week that Sears be deposed as a material witness.
But DeMocker's current lawyer says any communications between Sears and DeMocker remains confidential and privileged.
The 56-year-old DeMocker is accused of killing his ex-wife, Carol Kennedy, with a golf club in July 2008 to avoid paying hefty alimony bills. He faces a life sentence if convicted. |
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