Albany and New York, NY, July 21, 2020 -After 24 years in solitary confinement, Karen Murtagh, Executive Director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York (PLS), and Bijan Amini, founding partner of Amini LLC announced the release from solitary confinement of their client, Imhotep H’Shaka, to the state prison’s general population. He had been confined

A former for-profit college operator settled with the U.S. Department of Education for $8 million as part of the company’s bankruptcy case, attorneys announced last week. The settlement is the final step in a years-long case that began after FCC Holdings Inc. was accused of predrawing federal financial aid dollars based on enrollment projections that

Federal criminal investigators this week charged a former Novato businessman of operating a massive Ponzi scheme, defrauding more than a thousand investors and embezzling tens of millions of dollars to personally enrich himself.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S.Attorney’s Office alleged this week that the late Kenneth Casey and his business associate, Lewis Wallach,