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Court puts Carl Lewis back on NJ primary ballot
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2011/05/06 08:33
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Track and field legend Carl Lewis finally found a court willing to help him get into the race for the New Jersey state Senate — but there's a chance his run will be fleeting.
A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Lewis' name should be included when the ballots are printed for the 8th Legislative District Democratic state Senate primary. While the three-judge panel granted that emergency request, it didn't make a final ruling on whether he's eligible for office.
Lewis' lawyer, William Tambussi, said that under the ruling, the voters, not a partisan elected official, will decide who should be the state senator in the 8th Legislative District.
Republicans contend that Lewis does not meet the state requirement that a candidate live in New Jersey for four years before seeking a seat in the state Senate.
Lewis, 49, grew up in Willingboro before becoming one of track's biggest stars and a nine-time Olympic gold medalist. He bought a home in New Jersey in 2005 and has been assisting with the track team at Willingboro High School since 2007. He went to college in Texas, and he has a home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., and a business in Los Angeles. He registered to vote in New Jersey only last month, just before he announced his candidacy. |
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Court for Fla. woman charged in husband's NY death
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2011/05/06 05:32
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Federal prosecutors have been turning up the heat on a Florida woman accused of arranging the 2009 killings of her millionaire husband and mother-in-law.
Narcy Novack of Fort Lauderdale and her brother, Cristobal Veliz of Brooklyn, N.Y., are due in court Friday morning for a status conference.
Novack and Veliz are accused of hiring others to kill Ben Novack in his New York hotel room and Bernice Novack in her Florida home.
Last month, the government added the mother-in-law's killing to the charges against Novack and Veliz. And a prosecutor said another charge — which carries the possibility of the death penalty — may be in store.
Defense attorneys suggested the prosecution was trying to force a guilty plea.
Ben Novack's father built the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. |
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Welcome Indiana Trial Lawyers Association Members
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2011/05/05 09:22
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Today, Brad gave a presentation at the a href=http://www.indianalawupdate.com/entry/Welcome-to-all-Indiana-Trial-Lawyers-Association-MembersIndiana Trial Lawyers/a Association's 23rd Annual Lifetime Achievement Seminar, entitled Working in the Cloud: Using Online Resources to Help Your Practice.
We have links to downloadable copies of Brad's PowerPoint presentation (To view as a PowerPoint, right click on the hyperlink and select Save Target as....
To access the hyperlinks contained within the PowerPoint, right click on each logo button as select Open hyperlink), which contains links to websites mentioned in the presentation, and handout.nbsp; Brad has also prepared bundles of blogs he follows, including legal blogs and technology blogs aimed at lawyers. |
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4 guilty in $5.2M Medicare fraud scheme in Houston
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2011/05/05 09:19
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Four people have been convicted in Houston of conspiring to defraud the Medicare program out of $5.2 million over a three-year period.
A Justice Department statement identifies the four convicted Wednesday as 46-year-old Ezinne Ubani, 45-year-old Caroline Njoku and 47-year-old Terrie Porter, all of Houston, and 55-year-old Mary Ellis of Missouri City.
The federal jury in Houston acquitted 62-year-old Estella Joseph of Houston, all after a 15-day trial before U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 20-21. Ubani and Ellis could receive up to 20 years in prison, Njoku could get up to 15 years in prison, while Porter could get up to 10 years in prison. |
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LA lawsuit claims Deutsche Bank is 'slumlord'
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2011/05/05 09:19
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The city attorney sued Deutsche Bank on Wednesday, claiming the giant international lender illegally evicted tenants from foreclosed properties and left dozens of homes and apartments to rot, many in low-income neighborhoods.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the bank of violating federal, state and city laws and seeks potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in reimbursements to the city and to evicted tenants.
The bank's subsidiaries, Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, are the city's largest slumlords, according to the lawsuit.
The city attorney's office contends the bank failed to act properly as trustee to more than 160 homes and other residences with owners who couldn't meet their loan obligations during and after the 2008 international financial meltdown.
It's time to recognize that the fraud committed on Wall Street turns into blight on Main Street, City Attorney Carmen A. Trutanich said at a news conference.
He said the bank's subsidiaries acted as trustees for trusts composed of mortgage-backed securities involving at least 2,000 properties across the country.
The complaint focuses mainly on properties in low-income areas of the city, specifically South Los Angeles and the northeastern San Fernando Valley, but Trutanich said it could be amended to include more homes if further problems are found. |
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Trump real estate courses didn't deliver, suit says
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2011/05/04 19:18
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Before Donald Trump sold the idea of a possible 2012 presidential bid, the bombastic real estate mogul peddled the American dream at a place called Trump University. He promised consumers the golden opportunity to be my next apprentice and learn insider secrets of real estate.
But a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego claims that the possible GOP presidential candidate's courses instead delivered expensive infomercials disguised as educational classes that preyed on vulnerable Americans in troubled economic times.
George Sorial, assistant general counsel for the Trump Organization, told The Chronicle this week that the allegations contained in the suit are completely ridiculous, adding that Trump University stands 100 percent behind any course we offered.
Sorial dismissed the lawsuit as an effort by two former students and their attorneys looking to make a quick buck from the celebrity businessman.
There wouldn't even be a lawsuit if the Trump name weren't attached to it, he said.
But Tarla Makaeff, 37, a former fashion designer and marketer from Corona del Mar (Orange County), told The Chronicle in an interview this week that Trump's university was hardly worthy of the name. |
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