KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 — A senior lawyer, disbarred by the Bar Council a few years ago, successfully appealed for jail sentences related to his conviction on two criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges to be served concurrently, instead of consecutively. Originally, Kow Chee Kang, 54, was jailed five years by the Sessions Court on July 8, last year for misappropriating RM468,000 belonging to a

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While crooked lawyer Marc Dreier cools his heels in the slammer, his ex-wife can tool around town in his sports car. Prosecutors agreed to hand over the fraudster's 1997 Mercedes-Benz SL500 Roadster after Elisa Dreier claimed ownership based on her ex-hubby's failure to live up to the terms

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By JASON GEARY THE LEDGER TAMPA | A Lakeland man accused of having the largest collection of illegal steroids in Polk's history got a new lawyer Thursday morning. Magistrate Judge Anthony E. Porcelli appointed the federal public defender to represent Richard "Andy" Thomas.

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Melissa Mahler, a former Nixon Peabody lawyer, has reached a financial settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve the federal insider trading case filed against her last year. Under the terms of the settlement, Mahler does not have to admit or deny the allegations lodged against her in exchange for paying back the $5,800 she made off the illegal trade, interest on that

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The Securities and Exchange Commission issued charges Thursday against a Myrtle Beach lawyer accused of defrauding dozens of investors of $3.5 million in a high-yield Ponzi scheme.

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