‘Kids-for-Cash’ figure agrees to $4.75M settlement
By Max Mitchell, From The Legal Intelligencer Robert J. Powell, the former co-owner of two private juvenile-detention facilities at the center of the Luzerne County “kids-for-cash” scandal, has agreed to pay at least $4.75 million to settle his portion of…
Cricket: WICB bans T&T’s Mohammed
The Disciplinary Tribunal of the West Indies Cricket Board announced today that Trinidad & Tobago batsman Jason Mohammed has been penalised under the WICB’s Code of Conduct. Mohammed has been banned for the first two matches of the Trinidad &…
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New York Daily News: Jeffrey Webb and Enrique Sanz took over CONCACAF with same Mafia ways as predecessors
BY TERI THOMPSON , NATHANIEL VINTON FROM NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Saturday, July 25, 2015, 1:00 PM IMAGE: Jeffrey Webb pleaded guilty on July 18 in Brooklyn to 17 counts in the ongoing FIFA scandal. Wise Guys: They came barging into…
Former Va. Governor gets two years for public corruption
From Zoe Tillman From Legal Times A federal judge in Virginia on Tuesday sentenced former Gov. Robert McDonnell to two years in prison on public corruption charges. U.S. District Judge James Spencer handed down the sentence after hearing testimony from…
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“Not Guilty of murder” says jury in Cayman Islands trial over killing of Swiss banker Leonard Antonio Ebanks was unanimously found not guilty of murder but guilty of an accessory after the fact by a jury on Monday (8). Ebanks…
The Editor Speaks: Immigration woes
With the startling news that Linda Evans, Cayman Islands Chief Immigration Officer, Linda Evans has been placed on “required leave” because of alleged misconduct I can only wonder at the turmoil going on in that department. This is on top…
The Editor Speaks: 372 Persons are out in the Cayman Islands on Court bail – is this too many?
In a Freedom of Information request by Cayman lawyer Peter Polack it has revealed 372 persons are walking Cayman Islands streets out on court bail. At first sight this seems a large number of persons – it actually is if…
Woman initially wrongly charged with dangerous driving gets community service and ban for careless driving after hitting a pedestrian in the Cayman Islands
There is a huge difference between the charge of dangerous driving and the lesser one of careless driving as was outlined in the case of Patrice Leanne Frederick heard in the Cayman Islands Grand Court on November 4th 2014. Patrice…
Fort Lauderdale trial aims to topple top level of secret bank accounts
By John Pacenti, From Daily Business Review The Justice Department cracked open Switzerland’s centuries-old custom of banking secrecy when it forced UBS AG to disclose the names of secret U.S. account holders on top of fining it $780 million. But…
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Cayman Islands new renovated yacht club opened by Governor Last Wednesday (24) saw the opening of the newly renovated Yacht Club close to the old Courtyard Marriott Hotel on West Bay Road, Grand Cayman. The Yacht Club and the hotel…
