A former Glendale mayor who also served as a councilman has been sentenced to one year imprisonment for allegedly embezzling approximately $300,000 from a local farmers market. The former mayor has also been asked to pay $305,000 in restitution and another $14,000 in back taxes.
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We recently discussed the public corruption charges leveled against California State Senator Ron Calderon. In particular, Sen. Calderon is accused of accepting bribes.
When a corruption scandal breaks, it can be difficult for the public to keep in mind that all persons are considered innocent until proven guilty. Especially when an elected official is brought up on charges of public corruption, the public's instinct can be to judge first and wait for actual evidence to be properly brought forward only after the affected individual is already condemned in their minds.
A report authored by Syracuse University research group Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has concluded that the federal government is currently cracking down significantly on tax crimes.
Late last year, President Obama chose to commute the sentences of eight individuals who had served a minimum of 15 years imprisonment for federal offenses involving crack cocaine. T
Whether an individual is arrested on charges of organizing an international drug trafficking operation or is arrested on charges of low-level white crime, that individual has constitutional rights that must be respected by law enforcement unless the law specifically indicates otherwise.
The passing of Gigi is a game changer. How one super smart little girl from New York, with a big infectious smile and a giggling laugh, changed the criminal justice system in Los Angeles, is the stuff of legend.
I am the current and past chair of the Criminal Justice Section of WLALA. I first served on the WLALA Board in 1997. Back then, WLALA had a Government Lawyers Section, and a Criminal Defense Law Section. I served as Chair of the Criminal Defense Law Section.
Every full time working mom is inevitably asked the question: “How do you do it?”
I come from a family of lawyers. My mother is a lawyer, my father, my sister, my brother, my uncles and cousins, on both sides, are all lawyers. They are all, like me, solo or small firm lawyers, except for my uncle who owned and ran the New York Marino...
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