SC Lawyer Indicted for Extorting $1M from Clients in Fake Cases
Lawyer.com(NEW YORK) — Richard J. Breibart, an attorney in Lexington, S.C., for 33 years, specialized in litigating high-profile criminal and civil cases. A once prominent member of the community, he was known for throwing lavish Christmas parties for…
SC Lawyer Indicted for Extorting $1M from Clients in Fake Cases
Lawyer.com(NEW YORK) — Richard J. Breibart, an attorney in Lexington, S.C., for 33 years, specialized in litigating high-profile criminal and civil cases. A once prominent member of the community, he was known for throwing lavish Christmas parties for…
SC Lawyer Indicted for Extorting $1M from Clients in Fake Cases
Lawyer.com(NEW YORK) — Richard J. Breibart, an attorney in Lexington, S.C., for 33 years, specialized in litigating high-profile criminal and civil cases. A once prominent member of the community, he was known for throwing lavish Christmas parties for…
Drug Cartel Attacks U.S.-Owned Potato Chip Company
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(GUANAJATO, Mexico) — Mexican authorities arrested four alleged members of the Knights Templar drug cartel after a series of firebomb attacks on a potato chip company owned by the U.S. food company PepsiCo, the first attack on an…
Joran Van Der Sloot’s Lawyer Says US Extradition Inevitable
Sebastian Silva/AFP/Getty Images(LIMA, Peru) — The extradition of Joran van der Sloot to the U.S. on charges of wire fraud and extortion in connection with the death of Natalee Holloway will likely take place this summer, his lawyer told ABC News Tues…
Investment Banker Pleads Guilty in Fake ‘Collar Bomb’ Extortion Plot
Comstock/Thinkstock(SYDNEY) — An investment banker pled guilty Thursday to charges he broke into a Sydney, Australia, mansion and strapped a fake “collar bomb” around an 18-year-old girl’s neck in a failed extortion attempt.Paul Douglas Peters, 51, ap…