PHILADELPHIA — In a story April 12, The Associated Press erroneously reported the fortune to which Michael Scripps was an heir. He had a trust fund from the fortune of James E. Scripps, not E.W. Scripps. A corrected version of the story is below: A Scripps family heir was convicted Friday of stealing $3.6 million Keep Reading…
An Astor family heir has revealed the juicy details of growing up within Rokeby – the prominent clan’s 43-room Hudson River manor – and it was more grumbling tummies than gold-plated china. Many assumed the Aldrich family, the 10th generation of Astor heirs, were eccentric hippies living off trust funds but, according to a fascinating Keep Reading…
Battle lines have been drawn in the Nelson Mandela estate ownership saga with veteran lawyer George Bizos, Tokyo Sexwale and advocate Bally Cheune saying they will argue it out in court. The three men have been accused by Mandela’s two daughters, Makaziwe and Zenani, of appointing themselves as directors of Harmonieux Investment Holdings and Magnifique Keep Reading…
On Monday Beaumont attorney Kip Lamb, 57, was sentenced to 15 years for swindling more than a million dollars from two separate clients. Court records show that on April 14, 2008, Lamb received $1,094,611 into a trust account as his client’s (New Life Tabernacle Church) portion of a hurricane insurance settlement. Lamb later transferred the Keep Reading…
Michael Clarke Duncan’s family has questions about Omarosa Manigault … specifically, whether the late actor’s fiancee unduly influenced him into re-writing his will months before he died and leaving almost everything to her. Judy Duncan, Michael’s sister, tells TMZ she’s hired a lawyer to investigate the circumstances surrounding the change to the actor’s will in Keep Reading…
Area resident Michael Youngblood has filed a civil barratry suit against Kubosh Bail Bonding and the Kubosh Law Office, alleging he was unwantedly solicited for representation for his traffic tickets. The suit was filed April 5 in Jefferson County District Court and also names Paul Kubash and Felix Michael Kubosh as defendants. Barratry, more commonly Keep Reading…
WEST PALM BEACH (CN) – With help from an attorney, a health-care adviser conned a dying man out of $1 million and threatened to have his wife committed to a mental institution when she tried to recover the money, the couple claims in court. Jerry and Frances Berkowitz sued Princella Lewis, her company Prestigious Lifecare Keep Reading…
NEW ORLEANS — The judge overseeing the litigation from the BP oil spill has determined that at least one of the contracts with Brent Coon and Associates has a forged client signature. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier told Beaumont attorney Brent Coon today that the signature on the contract of Vietnamese fisherman Dien Nguyen does Keep Reading…
Retired city engineer Marshall Davies was nearing 90 when a longtime nursing assistant at St. Joseph Hospital befriended him in 2007 and offered to be his round-the-clock caregiver. Instead, Cook County prosecutors allege, Carmelita Pasamba obtained power of attorney over Davies’ estate and bilked him out of more than $350,000, using the money to remodel Keep Reading…
Guardianships limit, even sometimes suspend, many basic rights enjoyed by Texas adults. HB 2600, currently before the legislature, seeks to revise how incapacitation for the purpose of pursuing a guardianship is determined. An analysis by the Texas Conservative Coalition (TCC) discusses this bill’s potential impact on all Texans including the administrative ease with which this Keep Reading…
COLUMBIA — A Shawnee couple may testify against Kansas City lawyer Susan Elizabeth Van Note, who is charged with causing her father’s death by forging health care documents to prevent him from receiving potentially life-saving treatment. Camden County Prosecuting Attorney Brian Keedy told a Boone County judge this week that Stacey and Desre Dory of Keep Reading…
The bitter feud between the mother and son heirs of a $200million Nation Enquirer fortune has become a salacious tale fit for the supermarket tabloid that made them rich. Paul Pope, 45, says his elderly mother Lois is squandering his father’s fortune on private jets for her dogs, $100,000 Mercedes for her gardener and other Keep Reading…
A convicted child molester is trying to get his hands on trust funds belonging to the twin teenage heirs of Doris Duke’s massive fortune, court papers charge. In papers filed in Manhattan Surrogate’s Court, JPMorgan Chase Bank says the twins’ mom, Daisha Inman, has rekindled her relationship with her ex-con ex-husband, Randy Williams — who Keep Reading…
Winston Wong, the son of Formosa Plastics (1301) Group’s late founder Wang Yung-ching, sued an adviser for transferring the bulk of the family fortune valued at $15 billion into Bermuda trusts controlled by other family members. Hung Wen Hsiung set up the trusts, excluding Wang, referred to in court documents as Y.C. Wang, from the Keep Reading…
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Court of inquiry files criminal charges against Michael Morton prosecutor (TX)
It will be two years in August that Estate of Denial® began writing about the Michael Morton case. We were proud to be part of a cadre of bloggers and other media who sat in a Williamson County courtroom less than 90 days later watching the announcement of Morton’s exoneration and the man having spent Keep Reading…