Just before a federal judge ordered all assets connected with indicted investment advisor Martin A. Armstrong frozen and placed in receivership, Armstrong raced to use corporate funds to put three law firms on retainer. Now, a federal judge has told the firms to return the $1.3 million. He said the firms should have been "aware that they were being paid with corporate funds obtained by fraud."
January 26, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Just before A federal judge ordered all assets connected with indicted investment advisor Martin A. Armstrong frozen and placed in receivership in September, Armstrong raced to use corporate funds to put three law firms on retainer.
Now, Southern District Judge Richard Owen has told the firms to return the money.
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