Walter Olson at the Cato Institute is always a great source of interesting content related to the legal industry or legal venues. Today is no exception as he uses a post One Way to Get Around Courtroom Camera Ban to highlight an Ohio television station’s clever approach to covering the federal racketeering trial of former Keep Reading…
A Milwaukee County jury on Thursday found a former Quarles & Brady lawyer guilty of theft in excess of $10,000, for taking more than $370,000 over a period of a months from a woman prosecutors say suffered from dementia. Jeffrey Elverman, 52, did not testify at his trial, but his attorney Daniel Drigot argued that Dorothy Keep Reading…
From the Honolulu Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation: Honolulu Man Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling from Family Trust U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Hawaii January 03, 2012 (808) 541-2850 HONOLULU—Scott Kamiya, 34, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison today by United States District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi for embezzling money Keep Reading…
FORMER Tourism Secretary Vicente “Vince” Carlos has been stopped dead in his tracks in prosecuting his siblings for estafa. And so was Makati Chief Prosecutor Feliciano Aspi, whose office approved the filing of the criminal charge on recommendation of investigating prosecutor Renato Pambid. Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Perpetua Atal-Pano ruled Aspi had committed grave Keep Reading…
Though currently serving a 50-year prison sentence, Scott Rothstein spent the last weeks in Florida sitting through days of depos in which he’s reported to have disclosed information regarding additional parties involved with his $1.2 billion investment fraud. The article prominently mentions individuals affiliated with Rothstein’s law firm, Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler, and brings to Keep Reading…
Estate of Denial® provides news, analysis and commentary on abusive practices occurring in probate courts and via probate instruments (wills, trusts, guardianships, powers of attorney). We provide original perspective to educate the public regarding this growing threat to both individual freedoms and property rights.Celebrity gossip websites ran a story last week claiming that Whitney Houston is “broke as a joke.” They even quoted an unnamed (of course) source claiming that Whitney would be homeless if not for the generosity of friends. She called someone to ask for $100, the story goes. If true, that would be quite a fall Keep Reading…
Sam Manzo, the Southington caretaker on the old Smoron farm, is still without his inheritance and still living in probate hell. I stopped by to talk with Manzo on Tuesday because it’s been two years since I first heard about the elaborate scheme that sought to disinherit Manzo and take the broken down old Smoron farm Keep Reading…
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – Heir to a Texas air conditioning fortune and founder of his Wellington polo club, John Goodman is now fighting on multiple legal fronts. Investigators say Goodman drove drunk at twice the legal limit, sped through a stop sign and killed 24-year-old Scott Wilson. The lawsuit filed by the victim’s parents reveals Keep Reading…
Over the past months we’ve posted several stories about a dispute between heirs of Elizabeth Beall Banks, the former Belward Farm property owner known also for her anti-development activism, and Johns Hopkins University. A condition of the 1989 property sale requires “the property would be used only for academic purposes, research or medical care with Keep Reading…
As problems with the Tennessee judiciary are a regular topic here at Estate of Denial®, this post from Memphis’ The Daily News was noted with interest: GOP Proposals Take Aim at Tennessee Courts Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature are taking a close look at the judiciary branch this year, with several proposals expected to be Keep Reading…
