A judge has approved a settlement, apparently totaling $4.25 million, of a suit against Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. The suit had alleged that some of the firm’s lawyers helped Mobile Billboards of America and its affiliates sell investments in roving billboards that they should have realized were a scam. The settlement is under seal, but the judge’s order says the firm “would have little …
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Joshawa Webb could have been just another crack dealer, one more thug caught peddling his wares to an undercover DEA agent in Mansfield. But Carlos Warner, the federal defender on the case, wasn’t convinced. He and others in town were growing suspicious of the drug busts in Mansfield.
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NEW HAVEN — A New Haven man will learn his fate when he faces a federal judge in June.
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The Nation — For more than a decade, we Americans have been living on an economic San Andreas fault–a foundation of fracturing competitiveness covered by unsustainable consumer spending with money borrowed from foreigners. A financial earthquake was inevitable. We don’t know how high on the recession Richter scale the current crisis will take us, but it increasingly looks like, as they say in …
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CUBAN COOKING THE CHINESE WAY
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A Charlottesville woman who was part of an international investment scheme was sentenced Wednesday to six months of house arrest and three years of probation. Rebecca Dowdell, 31, was part of a Ponzi scheme that raised about $200 million in investor funds through a sham investment company between April 1998 and April 2002. Authorities said the funds were not invested, but held in accounts …
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Notable developments in the wine business…. By Taylor Eason.I recently published a blurb revealing my fear that Rosenblum Cellars would be bastardized by its sale to Diageo, the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world. Like many other business categories in the United States, wine is corporatizing and homogenization looms. Really, my concern falls into selfish …
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Rosenblum’s rosy fate?… By Taylor Eason.I recently published a blurb revealing my fear that Rosenblum Cellars would be bastardized by its sale to Diageo, the largest multinational beer, wine and spirits company in the world. Like many other business categories in the United States, wine is corporatizing and homogenization looms. Really, my concern falls into selfish territory — if all wine …
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The boom-bust-boom-bust cycle we’ve been seeing may be the new normal, and pockets of security are shifting. Here’s where to look for stability now. You’re not alone if you think the financial gods are out to get you.
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A Charlottesville woman was sentenced for her role in a wire fraud conspiracy.
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