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Yet another Ponzi schemer has made headlines on his way to federal incarceration. Algird M. Norkus, a 67-year-old man from Aurora, Illinois, was recently convicted by the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford to a 63-month term of imprisonment after pleading guilty.

Charles Whitman and America's First Mass Shooting Anyone who was born before 1955 can remember America's first mass shooting. If not, criminal justice attorney Nick Wooldridge reminds. The shooting shook the nation's conscience. It prompted Congress to act quickly. Within months of.

We have discussed the case of U.S. v. Jones, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held in February that the attaching of a global positioning satellite (GPS) device constituted a search. Well, the government is attempting to re-try the defendant, Antoine Jones..

A cyber attack against health insurance company is a glowing reminder that large health care organizations are prone to hacking. Anthem, the country's second-biggest health insurance provider, is the most recent target of cyber hackers. Over eighty million clients, including the corporation's.

CEBU CITY, Philippines - A 54-year-old man will be spending the rest of his life in jail for selling 10 sticks of marijuana weighing 1.79 grams in 2005. Regional Trial Court Judge Gabriel Ingles Monday ordered Rosario Bayot Mahinay to pay a.

  On November 4, 2014, the voters of Nevada approved SJR 14 by a margin of 287,183 to 246,836.  SJR 14 was a measure asking whether the Nevada Constitutions should be amended to create an Intermediate Appellate Court.  This was the second.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its pursuit of enforcement actions against insider trading, and this year is no exception. Notably, the SEC just recently filed an enforcement action against a former executive at a beverage company. The complaint.

The past year has been truly record breaking in terms of the magnitude  of the crimes making headlines, most notably arch-Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, attorney scam artist Marc Dreier and the New Jersey public corruption scandal. Now the criminal record-setting has happened again.

WHAT IS COMING: Under the law passed by the Nevada Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval in 2013, the medical marijuana industry will include up to 66 dispensaries statewide to sell the marijuana and marijuana products. The infrastructure will include indoor.

Australia Attack Leads to Discussion on "Lone Wolf" Terrorists When Australian police rolled into a Sydney cafe in 2014, Australia was in the middle of the worst terrorist attack it had seen since 1978 when a bombing at the Hilton Hotel in.