By Denise Lavoie
AP Legal Affairs Writer
BOSTON -- A graduate student who must pay four record labels a combined $675,000 in damages for downloading and sharing songs online has been ordered to destroy his illegal music files -- but a judge declined to force him to stop promoting the activity [...]
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A photograph of attorney Scott Rothstein, left, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was displayed last month in the Fort Lauderdale law offices of the now-defunct firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler.
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A once [...]
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI, Fla. -- A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot (26.5-meter) yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a U.S. lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing [...]
By Curt Anderson
AP Legal Affairs Writer
MIAMI, Fla. -- Investors claiming they were fleeced by a high-profile attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit Friday contending that the lawyer orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme with the help of a Canadian bank's U.S. subsidiary and several accomplices.
The 147-page lawsuit, filed in Broward [...]
