Three Jacksonville, Florida, physicians, Todd Perla, Marc Tafflin and Anthony Posca, as well as a co-defendant, Jason Votrobek, were acquitted last Thursday following a three-week trial in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in a multimillion dollar “pill mill” prosecution, as reported in the Florida Times-Union. The doctors were charged with… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Uncategorized RSS Feed“BadB” Sentenced to 88 Months in $9 Million Worldwide Identity Theft Scheme, Including from Atlanta-Based Company
Posted in Uncategorized“BadB,” also known as Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, a citizen of Russia, Israel and Ukraine, was sentenced on Friday to 88 months’ imprisonment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for participating in a worldwide identity theft scheme which resulted in losses of $9 million. Horohorin was indicted in 2009 in the District… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Denies Petition in Shaygan Prosecutorial Misconduct Case
Posted in Governmental Misconduct, UncategorizedOn Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court denied Dr. Ali Shaygan’s petition for review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s reversal of the trial court’s award of attorneys’ fees to Dr. Shaygan based upon misconduct by Federal prosecutors during his criminal case, as noted by the Chicago Tribune. The Supreme Court… Continue Reading
60 Federal Judges and Prosecutors File Brief in Shaygan Prosecutorial Misconduct Case
Posted in Prosecutorial Misconduct, UncategorizedAs noted by the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, on Thursday more than 60 Federal judges and prosecutors filed a brief in the case of Dr. Ali Shaygan, the South Florida physician who was charged with 141 criminal counts and prevailed, as we have previously discussed here, here and here. The brief urges the the… Continue Reading
Former Gwinnett Commissioner Shirley Lasseter to Be Sentenced Sept. 5
Posted in UncategorizedAs noted in the Duluth Patch, former Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Lasseter pled guilty in May to bribery charges in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The charges stemmed from Lasseter’s acceptance of a bribe from an undercover FBIagent who posed as a real estate developer seeking to do business in… Continue Reading
The Commerce Clause and Federal Criminal Law: No “Generalized Federal Police Power” Yet
Posted in UncategorizedThe United States Supreme Court’s determination of the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, 26 U.S.C. § 5000A, in June in the decision of Nat’l Fed’n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius, 132 S. Ct. 2566 (2012) generated much discussion of the Commerce Clause, although the… Continue Reading
#UK Man’s Conviction for Threatening Tweet Overturned
Posted in UncategorizedPaul Chambers, a 28 year old accountant from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, became a cause célèbre for the social networking website, Twitter, after he was charged as a result of a tweet he sent concerning Doncaster’s Robin Hood Airport in 2010. Chambers “tweeted” “Crap! Robin Hood Airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a… Continue Reading
Senator Saxby Chambliss Requests a Department of Justice Investigation into “SWATing” Pranks
Posted in UncategorizedAccording to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia’s United States Senator, Saxby Chambliss, has sent a letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder requesting that the United States Department of Justice investigate the phenomenon of “SWATing,” in which a caller contacts law enforcement to report alleged violent incidents and causes police or SWAT teams to be… Continue Reading