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New charges against driver in fatal Va. bus crash
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2011/06/03 13:13
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The driver of a low-cost interstate bus service was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter Friday following a brief court appearance on another charge stemming from this week's crash in Virginia that killed four passengers and injured dozens more. Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, of Flushing, N.Y., had been free on bond, but he was arrested on the new charges shortly after appearing in Caroline County court Friday morning. Cheung was in court to answer to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge stemming from the Tuesday crash on Interstate 95 about 30 miles north of Richmond. The new charges are felonies, each carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. "It's never easy to make determinations to bring serious charges, but there was enough evidence to bring the charge," Caroline County Commonwealth Attorney Anthony Spencer said after Cheung's arrest. Police say Cheung was fatigued when the Sky Express bus he was driving swerved off the highway shortly before 5 a.m., hit an embankment and overturned. It had departed Greensboro, N.C., Monday night bound for New York City with 58 people. Cheung's lawyer, Murray Janus, called the wreck a "tragic accident," adding he had not had time to talk to Cheung after his latest arrest. |
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Yale lab tech faces sentencing for killing student
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2011/06/03 12:14
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A former animal research technician faces sentencing for killing a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding. Twenty-six-year-old Raymond Clark III is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in New Haven Superior Court. Clark pleaded guilty to murder in March to attempted sexual assault of 24-year-old Annie Le of Placerville, Calif., under an agreement with prosecutors that calls for a 44-year sentence. The plea was entered under Connecticut's Alford doctrine, where the defendant doesn't agree to the facts, but agrees the state has enough evidence to get a conviction. Le's body was found stuffed behind a lab wall on Sept. 13, 2009, five days after she was last seen inside the Yale medical building. It would have been her wedding day. Le's mother and Clark's relatives are expected to speak. |
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The Law Offices of George Zelma & David Berlin
Law Firm News |
2011/06/03 08:03
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Attorneys George Zelma and David Berlin are experienced trial lawyers and advocates serving the needs of families and children in New York State.
Our firm is involved in cutting edge issues including production of documentary films to educate mainstream students about the needs of special education peers.
We are unique in that we bring the point of view of the disabled child/student to the IEP process in advocating for the appropriate services to meet each student’s individual educational and emotional needs. We represent families at Impartial Hearings to State Review Office and Federal Court.
We also represent students at Suspension Hearings and Manifestation Reviews and Hearings. Our attorneys and advocates are knowledgeable, in presenting facts related to neuroscience and neuropsychological evaluations. We work with students with all ranges of I.D.E.A. and Section 504 classifications and disabilities.
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- Special Education
- Criminal Defense
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Facsimile: 212-757-2863 or 212-757-0469 |
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Bauer leaving, Ruemmler in as White House counsel
U.S. Legal News |
2011/06/02 15:45
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President Barack Obama's top lawyer at the White House is resigning to return to private practice and represent Obama as his personal attorney and as general counsel to Obama's re-election campaign.
Bob Bauer will be replaced by his top deputy, Kathy Ruemmler, a former assistant U.S. attorney best known as lead prosecutor in the Enron fraud case.
The move means that Bauer, 59, will still play a central but outside role in advising a president who is seeking re-election in a time of divided government.
Meanwhile, the 40-year-old Ruemmler will take over the job as Obama's top in-house counsel and manager of a White House law office charged with juggling the domestic, national security and congressional oversight challenges confronting the president.
In a statement, Obama praised Bauer as a friend with exceptional judgment who will remain a close advisor. As to his new White House-based counsel, Obama said: "Kathy is an outstanding lawyer with impeccable judgment. Together, Bob and Kathy have led the White House Counsel's office, and Kathy will assure that it continues to successfully manage its wide variety of responsibilities."
Bauer has been part of Obama's circle since Obama was a freshmen senator in Washington, and now returns to the campaign counsel role he had when Obama ran in 2008. He has long been a go-to lawyer for Democrats on matters of political law and is married to Anita Dunn, a Democratic communications operative who formerly worked in Obama's White House.
Bauer will leave his White House post at the end of June. In a style typifying the low-key nature of transitions in the counsel's office, the news came in the form of a press release. |
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NJ mom accused of starving child pleads not guilty
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2011/06/02 15:44
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Two women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of child endangerment a week after an 8-year-old was found dead in their apartment from severe malnutrition and an untreated broken leg and her injured and emaciated siblings were removed alive.
The children's 30-year-old mother, Venette Ovilde, stared blankly and answered a judge's questions in a barely audible whisper as she entered her plea through a court-appointed attorney. She remains held on $500,000 bail on aggravated manslaughter and child endangerment charges.
Her 23-year-old roommate, Myriam Janvier, also pleaded not guilty through a court-appointed attorney to child endangerment charges. Her bail was continued at $100,000.
Christiana Glenn died May 22 from severe malnutrition and a fractured femur that authorities said had never been treated. Her 7-year-old sister and 6-year-old brother remained hospitalized for treatment of malnutrition and other injuries after being removed from Ovilde's Irvington apartment.
The children were discovered after the police were called to the home on a report of a child not breathing.
The women, who were both born in Haiti but came to the U.S. at a young age, radically altered their lifestyles about two years ago when they came under the sway of a man they described as their religious leader, according to friends and acquaintances. |
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E. Idaho investor pleads guilty in fraud case
Court Feed News |
2011/06/02 11:14
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A former eastern Idaho investor has pleaded guilty to felony wire fraud and money laundering as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors.
Daren Palmer, who appeared in U.S. District Court in Pocatello on Tuesday, remains on supervised release until his sentencing on Aug. 22.
Prosecutors say Palmer duped clients out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme over the course of several years. Investigators accused him of using his company, Trigon Group, to fraudulently take more than $76 million from 68 separate investors.
State and federal officials called it a classic Ponzi scheme, in which money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors. The scheme falls apart when clients start trying to pull their money out and there aren't enough new investors to provide funds.
In Idaho, federal prosecutors filed charges against Palmer last month after a two-year FBI investigation. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission won civil lawsuits against Palmer, who was ordered to pay about $90 million in restitution and fines.
Palmer has cooperated with his prosecution and wanted to plead guilty as early as a year ago, said assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Haycock. |
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