1. Barzee and Pettus are still waiting for a verdict.
2. Another out of town trial -- Matt Menchel is fighting the feds in DC. He is crossing the case agent. From Law360:
Attorneys for four military equipment company executives accused of trying to bribe Gabon government ministers to win contracts sought to undercut the government’s chief informant in the case in Washington federal court Tuesday, alluding to his past appetites for drugs and prostitutes.
Federal Bureau of Investigations agent Christopher Forvour, the lead case agent for the FBI’s sting operation, admitted to Matthew Menchel, attorney for defendant Pankesh Patel, that the FBI knew about informant Richard Bistrong’s previous habits of using cocaine and frequenting prostitutes, which predated his time as an informant.
3. Miamian Nevin Shapiro got 20 years in New Jersey for a billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
4. Health care is being argued in Atlanta today.
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What is this? A Bill Barzee vigil?? WHO CARES! And Maria Perez got Shapiro 20 years even though he flipped from jump street and ratted out everyone he knows? There's a shocker! How about covering some good local lawyers doing out if town cases instead of this mid-level junk.
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