HUNTINGTON, W. Va. West Virginia’s stake in the bankruptcy regime for pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma is likely to be significantly less than the West Virginia attorneys who took the company to court asked. Mike Wölfel It’s becoming increasingly clear that settlement funds in places hardest hit by the addiction problems of Oxycontin, one of the … Read more
FILE – In this September 12, 2019 file photo, Fotis Dulos, center, appears with attorney Norm Pattis, left, during Dulos’ indictment of a new evidence manipulation charge in the State Superior Court in Norwalk, Connecticut. Attorneys for Fotis Dulos, the Connecticut man charged with murder after the disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos, has … Read more
ELIZABETH CITY, NC – Attorneys representing Andrew Brown Jr.’s family will announce at a news conference Wednesday that they are filing a $ 30 million federal lawsuit in the case. Pasquotank Sheriff MPs shot Brown on April 21st. They were trying to execute a drug-related search warrant when, during their encounter with Brown, they started … Read more
Cape Town – An Eastern Cape attorney was released on warning after appearing in the new Gqeberha court on fraud allegations, the Directorate of Priority Criminal Investigation (The Hawks) says. Chantal Arlene du Plessis, 46, faces more than R158,000 civil litigation charges, Hawks province spokeswoman Captain Yolisa Mgolodela said in a statement. Du Plessis allegedly … Read more
Tommy Damico was a 29-year-old assistant prosecutor on Aug. 11, 1981, when he participated in an interview with a woman who alleged she was kidnapped at gunpoint from the parking lot of the airline’s old women’s hospital on Autobahn and raped. The case went cold until September 2019 when Donald Ray Dunn Sr. was arrested … Read more
Ali told KSTP that he believes the Potter case and other high profile officer shootings and deaths have been negatively influenced by elected officials, media, civil lawyers and activists, and these factors also played a role in his decision to step down. “It is not one side or the other, it comes from all sides … Read more
SPRINGFIELD – The Hampden County Attorney’s Office closed a human trafficking indictment two years ago against a local man. Dennis Wilhite, 55, was arrested and charged along with two other men after dropping a friend off at a hotel lawyer in 2019. The case was dismissed on June 14 due to the lack of sufficient … Read more
The charges were dropped in part of the sprawling Icy Roads methamphetamine case in Montgomery County due to improper communication between an investigator and a suspect, the county’s Commonwealth attorney confirmed last week. Christiansburg’s Railene Gloria Cabrera, whose age was unknown, was put on a two-day jury trial last week in Montgomery County District Court … Read more
FLINT, MI – Flint Water prosecutors have handed over less than a quarter of the documents that make up the criminal case against Rick Snyder and are yet to provide a list of witnesses against the former governor, his attorney says. “This is a mess, Your Honor …” Snyder’s attorney Brian Lennon told Genesee District … Read more
MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – Attorneys representing a Myrtle Beach company at the center of a state fraud investigation released a statement following the arrest of owners and an employee. Authorities say Raja Younas, Syed Naqvi and Jessica Voight ran Grandeur Management on Oak Street. The trio are accused of lying to get workers outside … Read more