Tag: attorney general

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In a letter to the House committee chair, Hunter Biden’s lawyer slams the IRS whistleblower as ‘disgruntled’

  • July 13, 2023
An attorney for Hunter Biden on Friday transmitted a sharp and sweeping letter to a powerful Republican lawmaker condemning his handling of an IRS whistleblower who has accused Justice Department officials of undermining the DOJ’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s son. Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, accused Rep. Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, of leveraging comments made by an IRS supervisory agent as “an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father.” Smith last week released transcripts of the committee’s…
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Britney Spears’ attorney working for free after $4.2 million

  • May 28, 2023
Britney Spears’ attorney is reportedly working for free. Mathew Rosengart has begun offering his services pro bono after receiving more than $4 million from the pop star since she retained him in July 2021, TMZ reported Friday. Sources told the outlet that Spears paid the former federal prosecutor $4,201,856 between November 2021 and March 2023 alone, a figure that represents the work he performed after her conservatorship was terminated. While the Grammy winner has been a free woman for a year and a half, her court case is still ongoing as she continues to battle her estranged father, Jamie Spears,…
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Former Albuquerque attorney identified as latest homicide victim

  • May 20, 2023
Albuquerque police I a well-known former attorney was fatally shot Monday at a home in the North Valley. Gilbert Gallegos, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman, said 45-year-old Colin Hunter died from his injuries on Tuesday. Police responded after 5 am to a shooting in the 4600 block of Fifth NW, near Griegos. Gallegos said Hunter was shot by an “unknown offender” and the case is being investigated. As an attorney, Hunter filed civil rights lawsuits, represented Cowboys for Trump and sued the City of Albuquerque over a controversial DWI vehicle seizure program. Hunter also served as the vice chairman of…
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Attorney Geoffrey Fieger suffers stroke, ‘working hard in his recovery’

  • March 30, 2023
(WXYZ) — Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger is recovering in the hospital after suffering a stroke, his wife confirmed to 7 Action News. Fieger’s wife, Keenie, said in a statement that he had an elective procedure to deal with a minor heart arrhythmia on March 1. Afterward, “it was determined that Geoffrey had suffered a stroke.” It’s unclear at this time how long his recovery will take, his wife said. “For those of us who know Geoffrey, he’d love to be back to work yesterday. Geoffrey has built a world class TEAM at Fieger Law, and they are continuing the hard…
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How L. Ashley Aull, a Trial Attorney, Gets It Done

  • March 26, 2023
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Andrew Zinn For this special edition of “How I Get It Done,” we’re asking successful women about how they’re making their return to the “office” as new moms work for them. “I’m a killer — I’ll always be a killer,” says L. Ashley Aull, who goes by Ashley, upon her return to him law firm after the birth of her second child. “And it’s time for me to get back on the battlefield.” The trial attorney in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson has been repeating this mantra to herself as she…
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Fed. Dist. Court in CT Rules Meriden, CT’s Zoning Regulations Discriminatory

  • March 23, 2023
This post was originally published on the RLUIPA Defense blog by Evan Seeman, Esq. of Robinson & Cole, and is reposted with permission. A district court has ruled that the City of Meriden, Connecticut (the City) discriminated against Omar Islamic Center Inc. following the City’s denial of the Islamic Center’s application to move its mosque to another location. The Islamic Center (the Center) outgrew its prior location – a 1,200 square foot space above a pizza restaurant in a neighboring city – and was unable to accommodate the members of the assembly, the number of students interested in its Quran…