One of our readers has just tipped us off to the story of Alan Hesketh, a British patent attorney and certified perv living in Connecticut who, until recently, served as Pfizer’s global patent director—and who pleaded guilty earlier this week to possessing and distributing more than 1,000 images of child porn. An investigation by federal [...]
Sources are reporting that one year after an unprecedented federal lawsuit targeting comment trolls on the college-admissions website AutoAdmit.com was filed, a whole lot of nothing has happened. The AutoAdmit controversy began in 2005 when two female law students were the target of bilious and harassing threads on the site which sported messages such as [...]
Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that a convicted pedophile, Joseph Edward Duncan III, who kidnapped and murdered an Idaho child in 2005, will be allowed to represent himself at his death penalty sentencing hearing. Earlier this year, Duncan dumped his legal team in favor of representing himself because he said “his attorneys couldn’t [...]
The legal biz is abuzz with reports that Angela Robinson, a former paralegal for heavy-hitting Texas plaintiffs’ lawyer Richard Laminack, is accusing him of not only being a “sexual predator,” but also of dabbling in federal mail fraud. Robinson alleges that that Laminack once offered her $15,000 to “stay with him in a hotel room [...]
Warning to Big Firm lawyers across America: the hours you spend at work trolling around the Internet for gossip and catching up with friends may be in danger. That is, at least, if your firms decide to follow the lead of Poland’s national police headquarters, which, international media sources report, has just banned officers from [...]
In reports that should give Christian Bale comfort that he’s not the only guy recently brought up on charges related to Dark Knight activities, authorities are disclosing that a 20-year-old Michigan man, Spencer Taylor, was charged earlier this week with larceny and destruction of property when he allegedly tried to steal Batman posters and other [...]
A federal judge in Brooklyn has sentenced former NBA referee, and self-avowed gambling addict, Tim Donaghy, to 15 months in prison for taking payoffs for inside tips on games. Donaghy could have received up to 33 months at his sentencing Tuesday. The Caesar’s Palace over/under betting line was 28 months. The league has angrily denied [...]
The local yokel powers that be in East Hampton are not happy at all. The media has reported that recently, village officials in the swank summer-weekend mecca have cracked down on “seemingly innocent and simple” special event requests from store owners such as giving out free snow cones, hanging balloons outside a storefront, serving wine [...]
A Texas businessman, Franz Felhaber, raised more than a few eyebrows at the U.S. Treasury Department last week when he showed up with a suitcase stuffed with over $5 million of rotting $100 bills and asked to exchange them for a cashier’s check. Federal authorities investigating the case explain that Felhaber is no stranger to [...]
Strippers all over Iowa have been shaking in their platform boots this week as a loophole in the state’s public indecent exposure law that allows nude dancing at “art centers” has come under attack. The would-be-Sodom-and-Gomorrah at the center of the legal debate is the 1,200-person town of Hamburg, where just last week, the 17-year-old [...]
