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In October 2006, Gregory Nathan, a Sydney fund manager, was arrested on charges including dishonest conduct and obtaining money by making false and misleading statements, in what investigators discovered to have been a Ponzi scheme. On September 19, 2008, Nathan was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, including a non-parole period of five ...
Marc Dreier, managing founder of law firm Dreir LLP, a $700 million Ponzi scheme from 2004 to 2008 [21] Enric Durán , from 2006 to 2008, took out 68 commercial and personal loans from a total of 39 banks in Spain with no guarantees or property as collateral, then gave the €500,000 to various anti-capitalist movements [ 22 ]
Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years. [50]Marvin L. Maple, US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier.; Colleen Stan, US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984.
In federal law, crimes constituting obstruction of justice are defined primarily in Chapter 73 of Title 18 of the United States Code. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] This chapter contains provisions covering various specific crimes such as witness tampering and retaliation, jury tampering , destruction of evidence , assault on a process server , and theft of court ...
However, on January 7, 2010, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion which cleared the way for the governor to pardon Cole. [13] On March 2, 2010, Governor Perry granted Timothy Cole the state's first posthumous pardon. On May 19, 2015, Governor Greg Abbott signed the Tim Cole Exoneration Review Commission into law.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
The definition of false imprisonment under UK law and legislation is the "Unlawful imposition or constraint of another's freedom of movement from a particular place." [14] False imprisonment is where the defendant intentionally or recklessly, and unlawfully, restricts the claimant's freedom of movement totally. [15]
List of largest law firms by revenue; List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner; List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue; List of largest Japan-based law firms by head count