Wednesday, 13 September 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Mr Michael John Butt, of Launceston, Tasmania, from providing financial services. Mr Butt’s banning follows an investigation by ASIC into his conduct as the manager of the Launceston branch of GE Personal Finance Pty […]

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network -R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Melody Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, announced today the filing of

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.- LAWFUEL – Law News Network -Sept. 11, 2006–Goldman Scarlato & Karon, P.C., a law firm with offices in Pennsylvania and Ohio, announces that a lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded securities of Aspen

LONDON, SINGAPORE – LAWFUEL – UK Legal News – Allen & Overy Shook Lin & Bok Joint Law Venture in Singapore and Allen & Overy LLP London offices advised arrangers Barclays Capital, Citibank N.A., DBS Bank Ltd, HSBC Bank plc and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the GBP368 million bid finance facility for

LAWFUEL – Legal News & Jobs – Two men from Pennsylvania were charged today with federal mail fraud and tax charges related to a scheme in which they embezzled approximately $6.4 million from the food and beverage giant Nestle USA. Both men – Henry Machinski, 50, of Archbald, and Vincent Marchese, 51, of Allentown –

SAN DIEGO–LAWFUEL – Class Actions News – Sept. 11, 2006–Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/advo/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on behalf of purchasers of ADVO, Inc. (“ADVO”) (NYSE:AD) common stock during the period between

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Federal and local authorities this morning arrested 10 members and associates of two powerful “cliques” of the notorious 18th Street Gang on federal racketeering and narcotics charges that allege the gangmembers used violence and intimidation to control the narcotics trade in the Mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Pico-Union and MacArthur Park areas

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced that his office will file a motion to intervene in a case before the Florida Public Service Commission seeking approximately $143 million in rebates for customers of Progress Energy Florida, Inc. The motion to intervene is in support of a petition

Hong Kong – September 12, 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The international law firm of Jones Day announced that it has recently advised Fang Brothers Investments Limited in the HK$1.14 billion sale by subsidiary CS Investment (CS) of a 50% interest in Times Supermarket Limited (Times) to Wumart Stores, Inc.(Wumart), Beijing’s largest supermarket

Santa Barbara resident John Peter Yunka, 56, was arrested Monday in Santa Barbara for his involvement with the promotion of investments that falsely promised extremely high returns with little or no risk to principal. Yunka falsely represented to prospective investors that he had access to certain offshore opportunities that paid yields ranging from 3 percent