| SEC Charges Family-Run Hedge Fund With a $3.7 Million Insider ... | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:45:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2007 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged seven individuals with engaging in an insider trading scheme that netted over $3.7 million in profits and losses avoided over four years. The defendants include a father and his three sons, a family-run hedge fund, and other relatives and friends. The defendants also include accountants and lawyers at some of the nation's largest firms. The SEC's complaint, filed in federal court in New York, alleges that the father, Zvi Rosenthal, formerly an executive with Taro Pharmaceuticals Industries, tipped his sons with confidential information concerning at least 13 separate Taro announcements, including earnings results and FDA drug approvals. The family pooled their money into a hedge fund in order to help conceal their trading in Taro securities from detection.... | |
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| | | Slain Man's Family Notifies County of Suit | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:45:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | The family of a Fairfax County man shot to death by a Fairfax officer last year demanded yesterday that the county pay $12 million for his wrongful death. An attorney for the parents of Salvatore J. Culosi said in a letter that they also want information from Fairfax about the Jan. 24, 2006, shooting, including the internal investigation into the actions of Officer Deval V. Bullock, who reported that he fired his weapon unintentionally. They also want to know whether police have reviewed their policies and procedures since the shooting. .... | |
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| | | Family settles lawsuit in Whitehall apartment pool drowning | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:45:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | The family of a woman who drowned in a swimming pool in a Whitehall apartment complex in July 2003 agreed to settle a federal law suit against the complex owners for $900,000. Lorreen Tambo, 19, was found at the bottom of a pool at the Independence Square Apartments on Maryland Circle. .... | |
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| | | Harman proposes family law change | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:46:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Children whose parents separate while they are very young should be given a recorded account of the ensuing custody battle when they are 18, family justice minister Harriet Harman has said. She said courts needed to take it upon themselves to inform children of the decisions taken in their interests rather than leaving it to warring parents. Those old enough should be consulted and have the decision explained to them by judges and magistrates, Harman said. .... | |
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| | | Kenton family court endorsements | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 6:45:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a curious commentary on contemporary life, two candidates for family court judgeships in Kenton County are touting their own divorces as qualifications for office. These judges, more than most other office holders, are likely to directly touch the lives of people in the community. Family Court judges hear all family cases relating to divorce, child custody, domestic violence, child abuse, adoption, truancy and juvenile delinquency. Life experience is valuable for any public officials, but we stop short of believing divorce is a necessary background for presiding over family issues. MEHLING OVER ZALLA In the more contentious race, we favor veteran attorney Chris Mehling of Crestview Hills over incumbent Judge Dan Zalla, a Gov. Fletcher appointee on the bench for only the last two months.... | |
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| | | The 'Chronicle' Endorsements | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:45:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Early voting in the Nov. 7 general election begins this week (Monday, Oct. 23), and as is our custom, the Chronicle editorial board (a moveable feast of the news staff and editors) consults on the Travis Co. ballot (with one Williamson Co. outlier), chooses the races where we have a consensus opinion, and offers our endorsements for our readers' consideration. This year we've been a little more selective than usual. Rather than endorsing in all contested races ? since many of these are frankly walkovers without major party opposition ? we've endorsed only in those races that either appear actually competitive, or that we believe have sufficient local interest to merit specific attention. In the interest of supporting the return of the two-party (at least) system in Texas ? and a more than usual necessity to "throw the bums out" ? we briefly considered endorsing a straight-ticket Democratic vote, something we generally avoid.... | |
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| | | Tyson family honors Bragg with room at new UA Law School complex | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:45:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | Friends and family of retired Montgomery Judge John C. Tyson III enjoyed a memorable afternoon last Friday as they gathered for the dedication of the new wing of the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. The Tyson family helped make possible the 63,000-square foot expansion by making a donation to the project. In gratitude for the gift, the Law School named a conference room at the facility in memory of Judge Tyson's great grandfather, Walter Lawrence Bragg. Bragg was one of the most accomplished and distinguished public servants and attorneys in state history. He served as the first president of the Alabama Bar Association, first president of the Alabama Railroad Commission (the predecessor of the Public Service Commission) and was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to serve as the first president of the Interstate Commerce Commission, where he was serving at his death in 1891.... | |
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| | | Casey Family Programs Honored by National Award | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:47:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | The National Center for Adoption Law & Policy will honor Casey Family Programs, and the work of the Powerful Families program, with the 2006 Maestro Award. The Maestro Award is the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy's highest honor, acknowledging individuals and organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to systemic improvements in the areas of adoption and/or child welfare. A partnership of Casey Family Programs and community, civic and faith- based organizations, Powerful Families promotes personal and community development as essential building blocks for social change and vibrant communities. The program provides parents, caregivers and foster care youth becoming legal adults with tools to advocate for the material and psychological needs of their families.... | |
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| | | Zimbabwe: Defence Wants Chief Law Officer Off Kuruneri Case | | Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:45:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE trial of former Cabinet minister Chris Kuruneri took yet another twist yesterday with the defence applying to have Chief Law Officer Mr Joseph Jagada stopped from continuing with the case as he was being probed for misconduct. The defence, which had been expected to apply for the former Finance and Economic Development minister's acquittal, held back the application after Kuruneri reported Mr Jagada and investigating officer Assistant Commissioner Samson Mangoma for allegedly tampering with the case docket. In his police report last Friday, Kuruneri accused Mr Jagada and Asst Comm Mangoma of removing an affidavit by Mr Felipe Solano -- whose family had business dealings with the former minister -- from the docket in a bid to suppress evidence that exonerates him in the charge of externalising foreign currency.... | |
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| | | Extraordinary tale of search for family lost in Holocaust | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 2:46:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | Daniel Mendelsohn's medi tative family memoir "The Lost" is, as its subtitle indicates, "a search for six of the six million" eastern European Jews who died in the Holocaust: the brother, sister-in-law and four nieces of the author's maternal grandfather, who stayed behind in the ancestral Polish-Ukraine town of Bolechow while the rest of the family immigrated to America. "Some time ago, when I was six or seven or eight years old, it would occasionally happen that I'd walk into a room and certain people would begin to cry" the author begins, his starting point being his resemblance to Shmiel Jaeger, his grandfather's brother, whose story Mendelsohn picks up through "scraps of whispers, fragments of conversations that I knew I wasn't supposed to hear." As an American teenager, Mendelsohn develops an interest in family history and the family ties to eastern Europe.... | |
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