Topic: Joseph Collins

Punch TV Remembers Vesta Williams

Signal Hill, CA, October 09, 2011 -(PR.com)- From one Birthday Bash to another Birthday Celebration, on December 4, 2010, Vesta did a comeback...
The non-profit foundation founded by Kanye West and his late mother Dr. Donda West, "The Kanye West Foundation," closed recently, for unexplained...
The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously.. . Its former executive...
Judge sentences Chicago lawyer to 7 years in prison in $2.4 billion fraudA Chicago lawyer was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday by a federal judge who said his excessive loyalty to Refco Inc. led him to help the big ...

Seven years prison for U.S. lawyer in Refco fraud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge sentenced a former outside lawyer for Refco Finance Holdings LLC to seven years in prison on Thursday for his role in a $2.4 billion fraud that caused the collapse in 2005 of the commodities ...
A former lawyer for collapsed . partial verdict by a jury whose deliberations became heated . outside Refco counsel Joseph Collins was guilty of a broad . Collins was charged in a 14-count indictment last year on . another of threatening to cut off his finger ...

As Lawyer Takes the Witness Stand, a Jury Looks Confused

A couple of strange things have transpired this week at the trial of Joseph Collins, the Mayer Brown partner who was accused of having prior knowledge of a Refco scam that cost investors $2.4 billion. Asked by his defense attorney to ...

What Did Joe Know About Refco?

The criminal trial of Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins started this week in Manhattan federal court. Collins, a former outside counsel to defunct trading firm Refco, has been accused of participating in a scheme with Refco insiders to of conceal fraudulent transactions ...

Mayer Brown: Saved by Stoneridge, But Still Slammed by Judge

The law firm Mayer Brown got itself out of some hot water Tuesday, but not before enduring some harsh words from Manhattan federal judge Gerard Lynch (whose name has, incidentally, surfaced as a possible Second Circuit appointee by President Obama). A group ...

VaporStream offers no-trace e-mail

Anyone who has seen the Mission: VOID Communications' VaporStream is a Web-based hosted message service that eliminates all traces of a message after it has been read; readers can't even print it out or perform a screen capture, said Joseph Collins ...