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Senate Bill 1004 created penalty for tampering with an electronic monitoring device. Such instances have now dropped significantly, TDCJ director says How a Texas law may be helping plummet cases ...
—January 2024: A sentencing hearing is expected for founder Manish Lachwani, who pled guilty to fraud last year —May 2024: Trial date set for Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson’s fraud and ...
Decisions of the two courts of last resort on questions of law are binding on all state courts, and are also followed by federal courts when they hear cases governed by Texas state law. The federal courts sitting in Texas apply state law when the case is not controlled by federal law or by the law of another jurisdiction based contractual ...
Mason committed tax fraud by inflating returns for her clients as a tax preparer, a crime for which she was arrested and pled guilty in 2011 and was sentenced in 2012. She was released after completing her sentence in 2016, and decided to vote in the 2016 election after being encouraged by her mother. [ 5 ]
“The maximum penalty under federal law for mail/wire fraud and witness tampering is 20 years of imprisonment,” the AG’s Office added. “The maximum penalty for obstruction of justice is 10 ...
After being rejected by the University of Texas School of Law in 1992, Cheryl J. Hopwood filed a federal lawsuit against the University on September 29, 1992, in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Hopwood, a white woman, was denied admission to the law school despite being better qualified (at least under certain metrics ...
Elected as the state's top law enforcement officer in 2014, Paxton was subsequently indicted on three felony securities fraud charges. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's long-awaited securities ...
A North Texas woman on Monday was sentenced to over four years in prison following her conviction in a $3.7 million wire fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha ...