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The disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not be appealing the 150 year sentence that was handed down to him last week.
“We won’t be appealing the sentence,” Madoff’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, said Thursday. He declined to say why the decision was made. Rebekah Carmichael, a prosecutor’s spokeswoman, declined to comment.”
The 71 year old was sentenced last [...]

A Hartford, Connecticut lawyer by the name of Nancy Tyler was held hostage by her former husband yesterday for 12 hours, in what will hopefully be the last episode in their messy divorce case. Before the standoff was done, the advertising executive ex-husband set flames to the home they built together.
“An advertising executive who snatched [...]

I am not pranking you right now…. Believe me, I have pranked my Grandparents many a times growing up… but this girl just took it to a whole nother level!
“A 21-year-old woman faces felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her. The woman faces five felony [...]

International Cybercriminals, with the help of two dozen regular citizens, stole $415,000 from a bank account that belongs to Bullit County, Kentucky last month.
“It’s stolen just the same way as if someone had come and took a .45 [caliber] pistol and held up a teller,” county attorney Walt Sholar told TV station WLKY.
Crazy to think [...]

Lori Drew, the woman who laid an elaborate plan to humiliate her 13 year old neighbor named Megan Meier, who later killed herself because of the incident, was tentatively acquitted today on charges of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization.
The Judge said his ruling will become final when he issues it in writing.
“Drew [...]

The man who is single-handedly responsible for legislature amending the Safe Haven Law is back in the news today…
He is having twins.
“Gary Staton, 37, became a single father in February 2007 when his wife, RebelJane, died of a cerebral aneurysm shortly after giving birth to the couple’s ninth child. Unable to handle the burden alone, [...]

A registered sex offender in the Los Angeles area was arrested on Friday after he found a teenage girls lost dog and demanded that she either give him money or sexual favors for the return of the dog, or he was going to torture it.
The levels of scumbag that people sink to is absolutely [...]

Today the U.S. Supreme Court sided with white firefighters in a workplace discrimination lawsuit. The case is at the center of affirmative action and the role race should play in job advancement.
The court ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, was wrong to trash a promotions exam because no African-Americans and only two [...]

Larry Wilder, a once-respected Indiana lawyer, resigned today over an event that somehow slipped under my radar.
“On June 17th, Jeffersonville attorney Larry Wilder was found asleep by police in his neighbors overturned city garbage can after neighbors called police when they woke to find their trash strewn on the ground and a man inside the [...]

Savana Redding won a partial victory of her Supreme Court appeal today.
The former middle-school student was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain medication in 2003 when she was an eighth grader at Safford Middle School. (about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona)
“Savana’s subjective expectation of privacy against such a search is inherent in her [...]