Attorney Found Guilty in NYPD Gun Licensing Bribe Conspiracy
April 24, 2018
John Chambers, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, marketed himself as a top firearm licensing attorney in New York.

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B. Colby Hamilton is a litigation reporter for the New York Law Journal and Law.com.
April 24, 2018
John Chambers, a former prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, marketed himself as a top firearm licensing attorney in New York.
April 23, 2018
Kenneth Lafave resigned in March over claims he behaved inappropriately from the bench during a 2016 eviction case.
April 23, 2018
In an order Monday, an appellate panel vacated the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rolled-back penalties for automakers who violated fuel efficiency standards.
April 20, 2018
The energy company, facing probes into whether it deceived shareholders and the public over climate change, saw its suit against the attorneys general tossed in late March.
April 20, 2018
The family real estate company previously run by President Trump's son-in-law is being looked at over reports it filed false housing paperwork in New York City.
April 20, 2018
The suit, drawing on the volume of reporting over the issue, seeks to subject Trump campaign officials, as well as Russia, to the civil discovery process.
April 20, 2018
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April 19, 2018
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April 19, 2018
Johnny Hincapie was freed in 2015 after evidence raised questions over his conviction in the 1990 killing of a tourist on a Manhattan subway platform.
April 18, 2018
The attorney general said that state law prevents, absent a court-provided exception, the prosecution of certain crimes already brought along to the point of a plea or a grand jury's swearing in.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 18, 2018
Cohen's attorneys presented Judge Kimba Wood with a list of four names, all former prosecutors in private practice, while prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office sent over three of their own, all former magistrate judges from the Southern District of New York.
April 17, 2018
While the Fox News host downplayed his relationship to Cohen on Monday, the network stated Tuesday that Hannity continues to have its "full support."
April 17, 2018
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April 16, 2018
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April 13, 2018
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April 12, 2018
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April 12, 2018
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April 11, 2018
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April 11, 2018
The commission's recommendation comes after it says O'Connor refused to cooperate with its investigation into his actions on the bench.
April 10, 2018
The application of the exception follows rigorous rules, but don't let it distract you from the peril the FBI's raid more broadly puts Trump's attorney in.
April 09, 2018
The raid was confirmed by Cohen's attorney, McDermott Will & Emery partner Stephen Ryan.
April 09, 2018
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April 06, 2018
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April 05, 2018
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April 05, 2018
The national retailer was alleged to have unfairly excluded qualified African-American and Latino candidates for hire due to automatic rejections over criminal histories.
April 05, 2018
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April 03, 2018
On each point raised by the plaintiffs, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited recent case law that showed the challenges facing litigants in class action securities cases.
April 03, 2018
Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas told investors they were creating a debit card that would instantly convert cryptocurrency to legal tender, with the backing of Visa and Mastercard. Federal officials say none of it was true.
April 02, 2018
The suit filed in federal court is the latest in a nationwide wave of litigation over recent revelations the firm accessed 50 million user's information ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
April 02, 2018
Jessica Denson is asking a Manhattan federal court to nullify her NDA to keep a motion to compel arbitration in a separate state harassment suit from going forward.
April 02, 2018
As an attorney in private practice and a judge, Wexler was known for trying cases rather than settling them. "I tried more cases in civil and criminal courts than any other lawyer in the state,” he once said.
March 30, 2018
The panel said that judicial review is appropriate in issues of abuse of discretion.
March 30, 2018
Gatta was most recently the chief of the Criminal Division of the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office, serving as a prosecutor during a renaissance in the office's white-collar practice.
March 29, 2018
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office alleged Wednesday that Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates knowingly passed along inflated bills for work done processing foreclosures.
March 29, 2018
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis found that Trump's disparaging statement's during the campaign were enough to justify proceeding under an equal protection claim.
March 29, 2018
During a press conference in Rochester, the AG connected the four-fold increase of New Yorkers who've had their information exposed to the issues now faced by reports about breaches at Facebook and Equifax.
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March 28, 2018
Jason Nissen pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud, after being charged with taking more than $60 million from investors he said was going to his premium ticket business.
March 28, 2018
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March 27, 2018
Shaohua "Michael" Yin directed a scheme that generated more than $29 million in profits off of nonpublic information about the upcoming media deal, the SEC has alleged.
March 27, 2018
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March 26, 2018
Last month New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced the state's pension funds were suing Wynn Resorts over its handling of sexual harassment allegations against its former CEO, Steve Wynn.
March 26, 2018
Queens attorney Scott Brettschneider allegedly had a law assistant claim to be the client's drug counselor in a letter seeking admittance into a prison drug program.
March 23, 2018
A circuit panel sided with both the defense and the government, who said the 300 hours a year for each of the defendant's three-year supervised release was excessive.
March 23, 2018
The investment bank's agreement represents the fourth penalty driven by investigations by the attorney general's office into electronic and high-frequency trading.
March 22, 2018
Prosecutors say Eric Luna and Igor Goldshteyn were in charge of acquiring phones for their respective departments, but then took some of those phones and sold them online for personal profit.
March 21, 2018
Former prosecutors from Manhattan and Brooklyn note that Sessions didn't appear to offer new interpretations of capital punishment statutes, meaning prosecutors were still operating with laws largely targeting violent gangs and terrorist.
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March 21, 2018
AG Eric Schneiderman's office said the bank knowingly sold toxic residential mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to the housing crisis.
March 21, 2018
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, sued claiming a September 2016 Yahoo article amounted to defamation, tortious interference with business relations and terrorism transcending national boundaries.
March 20, 2018
Two new positions and a new committee inside the Law Department will look to target areas of litigation to promote social policies.
March 20, 2018
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March 16, 2018
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March 16, 2018
Two female Muslim plaintiffs claim they were forced to remove their hijabs after being arrested, despite their stated religious prohibitions.
March 15, 2018
Eberhard Reichert, a German citizen, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act before U.S. District Judge Denise Cote.
March 15, 2018
The lawsuit on behalf of seven Latina workers in upstate New York claims supervisors at a snack company plant subjected them to regular sexual and gender-based harassment over the course of years.
March 14, 2018
Judge Crotty said the repercussions for attorney Joshua Paul's actions sufficed as proper punishment.
March 14, 2018
In a letter Tuesday, the judge asked the government to explain why First Amendment protections it agreed kept other official accounts from blocking people didn't apply to Trump's.
March 14, 2018
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March 13, 2018
Convicted Bonanno crime family member Anthony Donato sought to have documents from the trial of his former boss, “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, to help with his post-conviction legal efforts.
March 12, 2018
Pinchus Raice could have had his career ruined after the FDIC leveled a $100,000 civil penalty against him. Instead, he faced regulators in their own administrative court and won, securing a settlement from the banking oversight corporation for $1.5 million.
March 12, 2018
The assistant U.S. attorney was most recently chief of the office's national security and cybercrime section.
March 12, 2018
The state argued that a federal agency was wrong when it said the Department of Environmental Conservation had waived its oversight of the project by failing to decide on the application within a mandated one-year time frame.
March 09, 2018
What’s left of the former investment bank Lehman Brothers will be responsible for $2.38 billion in compensation to hedge funds and institutional investors who were hurt by the bank’s actions leading up to the financial crisis a decade ago.
March 08, 2018
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel, the SEC said it was dismissing its case against Tianyi Wei, without explaining its reasoning.
March 07, 2018
The cited lawsuit, from the Nixon era, was reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which found the lower court did have the power to compel the president.
March 07, 2018
In filings Tuesday, the state and city argued that interests of the EPA didn't line up with their own, pointing to respective cost issues and the power to create state-based regulations.
March 06, 2018
Orrick's Gregory Morvillo, in motion papers and before the court, argued that's the very kind of misconduct assistant U.S. attorneys committed against his client.
March 05, 2018
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Joseph Scali was convicted on all 10 counts against him, including charges stemming from an attempt to misappropriate $850,000 held in escrow.
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February 27, 2018
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February 26, 2018
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February 23, 2018
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February 21, 2018
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February 20, 2018
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February 15, 2018
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February 15, 2018
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February 15, 2018
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February 13, 2018
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February 13, 2018
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February 09, 2018
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February 08, 2018
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February 07, 2018
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February 06, 2018
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February 06, 2018
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February 02, 2018
Nicholas Genovese lied about his education and work experience in the financial industry to dupe investors into entrusting him with millions.
February 02, 2018
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February 02, 2018
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February 01, 2018
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January 31, 2018
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January 30, 2018
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January 30, 2018
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