General
Featured
Forbes Says Vítek Is Worth $7.2 Billion. The Numbers Say Otherwise
His Forbes-reported net worth is $7.1 billion, making him the 542nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes, and 6th richest in his native Czech Republic.
His Forbes-reported net worth is $7.1 billion, making him the 542nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes, and 6th richest in his native Czech Republic.
The Albany Times Union has ranked the arrest and indictments of Nxivm leaders Keith Raniere, Nancy Salzman, Allison Mack, Lauren Salzman, Clare Bronfman and Kathy Russell as the second biggest story in the Capitol Region for 2018.
Now that we have arrived at the new year, a time when we will have plenty to say, perhaps this handy offering from the Department of Justice – giving in fairly plain language – the nature of the charges against the Nxivm defendants – might be of interest.
By A NYC Lawyer with Contacts:
Former Assistant US Attorney Anthony M. Bruce was probably the perfect man to use to indict me.
Marc Agniflo has pretty much summed up the weakness, he says, of the case against NXIVM and the government’s foolish notion to pursue it – in a memorandum of law filed on Dec. 28.
Arizona Mafia leader, attorney Dennis Burke used his firm, Frontier Solutions, to try to fraudulently obtain a visa for Marianna Fernandez, the government claims.
It’s hard to know where to begin with this latest convolution in the case of The U.S. v. Raniere Et Al…
By Niagara Barrister
Scott Johnson has done a line by line commentary on a recent post by Heidi Hutchinson.
![Phony crimes are part of the stock and trade of the Department of [in]Justice. Studies by the Innocence Project have proven consistently that about 10 percent of defendants who took plea deals were factually innocent. But conviction stats are more important than justice. Bureaucracies work that way. Whatever a bureaucracy is tasked with doing - optics are more important than reality.](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.frpbn.com%2Fmedia%2F2018_02_DOJ.jpg%3Ft%3D2026-04-11T02%253A03%253A10.048Z&w=3840&q=75)
“Reality,” a commenter wrote, “Look at history and tell me how many times the Feds lose cases when there are so many financial crimes involved and so much fed money being spent to investigate.”
