Linda Satter
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Uphold drug-fraud verdict, McDaniel asks state justices
posted: 06/19/2013 4:35 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel announced Tuesday that he has been joined by his colleagues in 35 states and 65 members of the Arkansas General Assembly in asking the state Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion judgment against a pharmaceutical company for defrauding the state Medicaid system about the safety risks of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug.
Osborne widow files for bankruptcy
posted: 06/15/2013 5:02 a.m. Comments 3
Mitzi Osborne, the wife of the late Little Rock philanthropist Jennings Osborne, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Plaintiff: Switch officer’s attorney
posted: 06/12/2013 3:55 a.m. Discuss
More than 21 years ago, the man who is now Little Rock’s police chief considered a police cadet, who is now being sued for improperly using deadly force in her capacity as an officer, to be “a liability” to the department, a Chicago attorney revealed in legal documents filed in federal court in Little Rock Monday.
Abortion-suit filers win time to respond
posted: 06/12/2013 3:53 a.m. Discuss
A federal judge signaled in an order Tuesday that the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a new state abortion law will fight to have the entire law, not just the section outlawing most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, invalidated.
Cheated Civitans, says ex-treasurer
posted: 06/12/2013 3:48 a.m. Discuss
A former treasurer and board member for the Little Rock Civitan Club pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal fraud charge, admitting that she bilked the nonprofit organization out of $49,725 between October of 2007 and November of 2011.
Fraud used for 4 loans on homes, jury finds
posted: 06/11/2013 3:48 a.m. Discuss
A federal jury on Monday convicted former Little Rock real-estate agent Brandy Marie Thomas of four counts of wire fraud, concluding a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr.
Pilfered $62,513 from credit union, ex-exec tells court
posted: 06/11/2013 3:40 a.m. Discuss
A Des Arc woman admitted Monday in federal court in Little Rock that she used her position as president of the federal credit union at a Veterans Administration hospital to embezzle $62,513.09 between June 2003 and April 2012.
LR man, 22, convicted in sex-trafficking case
posted: 06/08/2013 5:13 a.m. Discuss
A federal jury on Friday convicted a 22-year-old Little Rock man of sex trafficking, agreeing that he was a “pimp” for a Little Rock woman he sometimes treated as a girlfriend.
Nonprofit denied stake in abortion suit
posted: 06/07/2013 12:06 a.m. Discuss
A federal judge on Thursday denied a Cross County counseling center’s request to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging a new state abortion law, but said the group could weigh in on the case through a friend-of-the court brief.
Man gets prison in theft plot at archive
posted: 06/06/2013 3:05 a.m. Discuss
Christopher Jackson, who pleaded guilty in February along with another man to stealing customer funds while working at Rogers Photo Archive in North Little Rock, one of the world’s largest collections of original images and negatives from newspapers and other sources, was sentenced Wednesday to 33 months in federal prison.
