An attorney said Thursday that a prominent Highland Park family is “considering all options” against the Fort Worth Police Department a day after their son’s picture mistakenly appeared on an arrest warrant as a target in this week’s TCU drug busts. “A public apology would appear to be in order, for starters,” said David Finn, [...]
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Highland Park family weighs options after son linked to TCU busts by mistake
February 16th, 2012 · No Comments
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“Blood Oath” Sealed Stanford Deal, Court Is Told
August 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments
HOUSTON — R. Allen Stanford’s relationship with the chief regulator of his Antigua bank was closer than most.
James M. Davis, Mr. Stanford’s chief financial officer, leaving court on Thursday with his wife, Lori, and lawyer, David Finn.
At a meeting in 2003, they became blood brothers, cutting their wrists and mixing their blood in a “brotherhood ceremony? that Mr. Stanford’s chief financial officer said promoted an elaborate scheme to hide a multibillion-dollar fraud from American and other regulators.
Tags: criminal law · David Finn · federal law · Stanford · Texas
Former Stanford CFO Cooperates With Feds
August 29th, 2009 · No Comments
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Lawyer: Greed May Explain Former Stanford Associate’s Actions
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys Texas Lawyer August 31, 2009 After pleading guilty on Aug. 27 to three criminal charges that could put him in prison for 30 years, James M. Davis, the former chief financial officer for Stanford Financial Group and Stanford International Bank Ltd., expressed remorse for his actions that contributed to the downfall [...]
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Stanford Update-Bloomberg
April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins April 9 (Bloomberg) — Stanford Group Co. Chief Financial Officer James M. Davis, accused by federal regulators of helping his boss, R. Allen Stanford, run a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme, will enter plea negotiations with prosecutors. Davis was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission along with Stanford. Davis will [...]
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Dallas Observer Stanford Story
April 9th, 2009 · No Comments
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-04-09/news/sec-says-texas-financier-sir-allen-stanford-swindled-investors-out-of-billions/
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“My Baloney has a first name, it’s A-L-L-E-N”…
April 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7273921 Native Texan R. Allen Stanford told ABC News that fraud allegations against him and his Stanford Financial Group companies are “baloney,? according to a report aired Monday. In what the network said was Stanford’s first media interview since the Securities and Exchange Commission filed the civil fraud complaint, Stanford also denied the SEC’s allegation [...]
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Scalia Rocks
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES ROBERT SORICH, TIMOTHY McCARTHY, AND PATRICK SLATTERY v. UNITED STATES ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT No. 08–410. Decided February 23, 2009 The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. McNally v. United States, 483 U. S. [...]
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Holder Should Support Executive Order On Attorney-Client Privilege
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments
WASHINGTON, DC — The Coalition to Preserve the Attorney-Client Privilege issued the following statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation proceedings scheduled for January 15, 2009 on the nomination of Eric H. Holder Jr., to be Attorney General of the United States:
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Sealing Juvenile Records in Texas
October 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Juvenile Criminal Record in Texas Sealing of Juvenile Records-Overview Texas Family Code Section 58.003 provides for the sealing of juvenile records. An individual with juvenile records available for sealing may file an application for sealing of records in a juvenile court of the county in which the proceeding occurred. Juvenile records ordered sealed by the [...]
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