The People of the State of New York are the plaintiffs in this case. The defendant of the case is Gus Franco. The case is being heard in the criminal term of the Queens County Supreme Court in the state of New York. The defendant has moved to have the…
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Defendant Contends Cruel and Unusual Punishment in Sentencing
The defendant of this case is Irone Bradford. The plaintiff in the case is the People of the State of New York. The case is being heard in the Trial term of the Supreme Court located in New York County. Judge Jack Rosenburg is overseeing the case. The defendant has…
Court Decides if Rape Trauma Syndrome Applies
The Facts: Defendant is charged with two counts of grand larceny in the third degree arising out of a homosexual incident between the complainant and defendant. The People allege that the incident was consensual in nature and that defendant thereafter extorted money from the complainant by threatening to expose him…
Defendant Charged with Multiple Sex Offenses
On October 16, 1997, a male identified only as C.B. made a videotaped confession to a Bronx Assistant District Attorney following his arrest. During the confession, C.B. discussed numerous criminal offenses and described on at least 11 different occasions on which he had entered private residences unlawfully and in some…
Hearing set for tax collector accused of stealing
An evidentiary hearing has been set in the lawsuit against a former tax collector. A Milford Superior Court judge set Feb. 7 as the date for the hearing, a source was informed. Milford is located in Connecticut. Both the prosecution and the defense will present their evidence for the trail…
Tennessee Couple Accused of Stealing From Church
The one place where money and all other things should be sacred was not so, recently. A Massachusetts couple has been accused of stealing from the First Presbyterian Church in Tennessee in January, alleges a charge. The couple were both acting suspicious and were questioned when they left the church.…
An international case of fraud involving a major software firm leads to high-stakes charges
A former manager of a major U.S. software company was recently indicted on charges of wire fraud, suspicion and money laundering, following an investigation which revealed a multi-million dollar international scam. During the course of his five-year employment with the software company, the defendant appears to have taken kickbacks from…
SEC Accuses Former Goldman Sachs Director of Participating in Insider Trading
A former director of financial firm Goldman Sachs has been accused of providing illegal business tips to the head of the Galleon Group, another financial firm. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleges that Rajat K. Gupta provided information about Warren Buffet’s intentions to invest in Goldman Sachs to Raj…
Ex-Qwest CEO Says That He Will Not Pay for His Lawyer’s Underwear
On Wednesday, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Qwest Communications, filed a lawsuit that alleges the lawyers who represented him during his insider-trading case overbilled him, a New York Criminal Lawyer has learned. The legal malpractice lawsuit was filed in state Superior Court in Newark, NJ, seeks punitive and…
Las Vegas businessman reaches $400,000 settlement in fraud case
In a surprising twist of fate, the Las Vegas businessman who was arrested last year under suspicion of an $80 million dollar investment fraud has reached a settlement worth $400,000 with one of his angry investors. Apparently, the man solicited to investors that he was in the process of developing…