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The Massachusetts federal judge who ran a probe into an attorney overbilling scandal in a settled class action with State Street Corp. slashed a fee request Friday in a separate case against Insulet Corp. after lambasting similar "false and misleading statements" from two firms seeking their cut of a $19.5 million deal.

Nuhu Ribadu, pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has joined over 100 world leaders to sign...

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A 42-year-old former Methuen was sentenced this week to nearly two years of time served in jail for fentanyl drug dealing. Milton Elias Lara was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf to 22 months’ time served in prison and three years of supervised release. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Lara will […]

Wicked Local A former Newton attorney was sentenced on May 7, in connection with a long-running scheme to embezzle funds from trusts for which he served as trustee, according to the Department of Justice. Kevin M. Brill, 61, of Newton, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Mark L. Wolf to two years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $15,000, according to the DOJ press release. Brill was also ordered to pay restitution of $381,662 to the victims and $169,000 to the ...

Boston – A former attorney was sentenced today in connection with a long-running scheme to embezzle funds from trusts for which he served as trustee. Kevin M. Brill of Newton, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Mark L. Wolf to two years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $15,000. Brill was also ordered to pay restitution of $381,662 to the victims and $169,000 to the IRS. On Jan. 11, 2021, Brill pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud and four counts of fil...

FROM NEWS REPORTS A Canton woman was sentenced April 16 in federal court in Boston in connection with a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. Bintu Toure, 26, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf to one year and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, restitution and forfeiture. In January 2021, Toure pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Toure conspired with others to open numerous bank accounts in Massachusetts in the name of s...

An MS-13 gang member pleaded guilty last Friday in federal court for his involvement in the 2018 murder of a teenage boy in Lynn. Eliseo VaqueranoCanas, a/k/a “Peligroso,” 21, an El Salvador national, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges more commonly known as RICO. As part of Canas’s guilty plea the reputed gang member admitted his involvement in the July 30, 2018 murder of a 17-year-old boy in Lynn.  MS-13 is a notorious street gang operating in Massachusetts and numerous ...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador pleaded guilty last week to murdering a 17-year-old three years ago at a playground in a community about 13 miles north of Boston, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a statement Tuesday. Eliseo Vaquerano Canas, a 21-year-old national of El Salvador nicknamed "Peligroso," the Spanish word meaning dangerous, pleaded guilty Friday to conspirac...

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP asked a federal judge Wednesday to hold off on ordering the firm to pay out a $1.1 million chunk of its fee for work on a years-old $300 million settlement with State Street Corp. so it can ask the First Circuit whether the repayment is justified.