Posts tagged mistrial
When at First You Don’t Succeed: Feds Take Third Swing at Turner
Aug 10th
When faced with a mistrial, federal prosecutors typically roll up their sleeves and start preparing the retrial. If they then get another mistrial, they often shrug and move on to other cases.
But not with Hal Turner.
Joseph Collins, Former Refco Lawyer, Gets Seven Years in Prison
Jan 14th
This just in: Joseph Collins, the former Mayer Brown lawyer who served as outside counsel to collapsed hedge fund Refco was earlier Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison.
In July of last year, Collins was convicted on five counts of fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors had accused the former Mayer Brown partner of having knowledge of the Refco scam that cost investors $2.4 billion. (For previous LB coverage of Collins click here, here, here, and here.) A mistrial was declared on nine other counts.
We’ll link to a news story on Collins’s sentence when one becomes available.
