President Barack Obama nominated Richmond lawyer John A. Gibney Jr. today for a U.S. District Court vacancy in Richmond.
Virginia’s U.S. senators, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, had recommended Gibney for the post and hailed the nomination. It has been more than a year since statewide bar groups vetted candidates for the vacancy created when Judge [...]
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Gibney gets nomination
April 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Judicial Elections, U.S. District Court
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More Titantic exploration planned
October 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · U.S. District Court
A lawyer for the company with salvage rights to the Titanic confirms a possible expedition to the wreck site is planned for next year.
Robert McFarland of Norfolk (pictured) tells the Associated Press that details of the dive should come out in hearings this week before U.S. District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith.
McFarland’s client, RMS Titanic Inc., [...]
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Mortgage broker gets 20 years in fraud scheme
October 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fraud, U.S. District Court
U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar sentenced a former Newport News mortgage broker to 20 years in prison for running a mortgage fraud scheme out of his house.
According to the Daily Press, Richard N. Garries had been found guilty of 24 charges, including wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements and concealing [...]
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Okun’s ex-wife set to testify against him
August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Fraud, U.S. District Court
Financier Ed Okun – convicted in a $126 million fraud – may hear from his former wife at his sentencing hearing this week.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Carol May, who was married to Okun for a brief period in the 1970s, had not heard a word about her ex-husband in several decades.
However, she will be [...]
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Turk reverses jury verdicts in moonshiners’ case
April 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · U.S. District Court
U.S. District Judge James Turk dismissed 25 money laundering convictions against a couple who ran a major moonshine still in Pittyslvania County.
In reversing a jury’s guilty verdicts, Turk cited a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, reports The Roanoke Times. The high court ruled that when revenue from an illegal activity is used to support the [...]
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Tax fraud brings 18 month sentence for McClure
April 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Abingdon, U.S. District Court
Longtime motorsports leader Larry McClure is off to federal prison for dodging taxes.
U.S. Western District Judge James P. Jones sentenced McClure to 18 months for filing a false income tax return, obstructing the federal investigation and lying to Internal Revenue Service investigators, reports the Bristol Herald Courier. In addition, he will have to pay $125,000 [...]
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