Wright Law Firm in the Media
A Chinese national on Friday sued the federal government, claiming that her application for an EB-5 visa was wrongly denied, despite having put down the minimum $500,000 capital investment.
Read More →Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security received an administrative claim under the Federal Torts Claim Act for Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000) filed by U.S. citizen Sofia Johnson for false arrest, false imprisonment, and negligence caused by immigration officials.
Read More →Sofía Johnson-Acevedo presentó un reclamo por negligencia al gobierno federal por $25 millones de dólares, ya que fue deportada cinco veces a México, pese a ser ciudadana, dice.
Read More →La obligan a pasar cinco años en Tijuana, a donde vivió en las calles; regresa con la salud deteriorada.
Read More →En su lucha por la ciudadanía esta mujer presenta demanda de $30 millones contra el gobierno de EEUU.
Read More →A Canada-based Libyan has lodged with Paris prosecution a complaint against Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar for torture practices and killings, including the slain of his mother, brother and sister in Benghazi during the army commander's offensive against radicals.
Read More →L'homme fort de l'est de la Libye, le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, est visé par une plainte en France pour « actes de torture et de barbarie » déposée fin avril par un Libyen dont la famille a été décimée lors du siège de Benghazi.
Read More →A lawsuit has been filed in France against Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar alleging torture and barbarism, the plaintiff's lawyer in France, Rachel Lindon, said on Wednesday.
Read More →A lawsuit has been filed in France against Libyan army commander Khalifa Haftar alleging torture and barbarism, the plaintiff's lawyer in France, Rachel Lindon, said on Wednesday.
Read More →Canadian and Libyan citizen Ali Hamza filed a criminal complaint against U.S. citizen Khalifa Haftar in Paris on April 26, 2018 for acts of terrorism and torture. Mr. Hamza has brought the complaint on behalf of his family members, who were victims of Haftar's brutal siege of Benghazi in 2016 and 2017.
Read More →Un citoyen libyen en exil a porté plainte à Paris pour torture et terrorisme contre le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, l'une des figures de la Libye post-Kadhafi reçue par Macron en juillet 2017, et récemment soignée secrètement en France.
Read More →A former executive at defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP won't be doing prison time for a fraud conviction stemming from the firm's 2012 collapse.
Read More →Twelve Chinese citizens who each invested $500,000 in a $31.3 million Florida real estate development project sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, alleging their EB-5 immigrant investor visa petitions were improperly denied.
Read More →A growing cadre of former military officers who served with Trump National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster are quietly calling for him to retire from service, worried the embattled Trump administration is tarnishing the U.S. military's reputation by deploying their own personal three-star general as a political shield.
Read More →Six Chinese investors have won visa approval through the EB-5 program, ending litigation in which they said the Department of Homeland Security failed to acknowledge that their investments in a hospital met program requirements.
Read More →The first CIA captive subjected to what the U.S. government called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' after the Sept. 11 attacks is choosing to testify about conditions inside the Guantanamo Bay detention center even if it could create legal problems for him later.
Read More →A former Barclays Capital Inc. bond trader brought to the Second Circuit on Monday what is possibly the first constitutional challenge on direct appeal against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's use of administrative law judges.
Read More →Former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP executives Stephen DiCarmine and Joel Sanders asked a New York judge on Monday to dismiss all charges in the middle of their fraud retrial, saying prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence.
Read More →The collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP almost five years ago returned to center stage as two former executives went on trial for a second time on charges they lied to investors before the law firm went bankrupt.
Read More →The events leading up to the collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf, once one of New York's most prominent law firms, are about to be relived for a second time in a Manhattan state courtroom.
Read More →The circumstances surrounding the collapse of one of New York's most prestigious law firms revisited in Manhattan court proceedings.
Read More →New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP closed its doors nearly five years ago, but the circumstances leading up to the firm's collapse continue to occupy the attention of New York prosecutors.
Read More →Trial watchers will have plenty to choose from heading into 2017, including a reprise of the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP drama, a criminal fraud trial against former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, and a securities case against a former Barclays trader.
Read More →Six Chinese investors asked a D.C. federal judge Friday to vacate a decision by the U.S. Homeland Security Department denying them access to the EB-5 visa program after they each invested $500,000 in a hospital project.
Read More →GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — I first visited Obaidullah at Guantanamo Bay in the spring of 2009. Before that first meeting, all I knew were the disturbing accusations against him, that he had fired his last habeas attorney and that I wasn't sure why.
Read More →An Afghan family in the eastern province of Khost says they're excited their son is among 15 prisoners released from Guantánamo Bay detention center and transferred to the United Arab Emirates this week.
Read More →A Chinese national on Friday sued the federal government, claiming that her application for an EB-5 visa was wrongly denied, despite having put down the minimum $500,000 capital investment.
Read More →The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power.
Read More →Six Chinese investors sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in District of Columbia federal court on Thursday, alleging that they were wrongfully denied access to the EB-5 visa program after investing $500,000 each.
Read More →The U.S. Department of Homeland Security moved Thursday to throw out a lawsuit claiming it capriciously denied EB-5 investor visas to more than a dozen U.S. resident aliens, telling a D.C. federal court the plaintiffs failed to state a viable claim.
Read More →A few months before the recent release of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s use of torture, I interviewed the man charged with defending one of the most notorious prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Maj. Jason Wright was part of the military counsel for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of being the mastermind behind the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Read More →Entretien avec Jason Wright, ancien avocat à Guantanamo. Lors de sa première élection, Barack Obama avait promis de fermer Guantanamo. 6 ans plus tard, il y reste près de 140 prisonniers.
Read More →Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, is facing a military commission at Guantanamo Bay and potentially the death penalty. He was captured in 2003 but his case still hasn't gone to trial.
Read More →Jason Wright hatte als US-Soldat und Militärjurist Befehl, einen der schlimmsten Al-Kaida-Terroristen zu verteidigen. Drei Jahre lang tat er das nach bestem Wissen und Gewissen. Dann stellte ihn die Armee vor die Wahl, entweder den Fall aufzugeben oder seine Karriere.
Read More →A military lawyer representing the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is resigning from the U.S. Army, which was trying to force him off Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's defense team on the grounds that he needed to attend a graduate course this year.
Read More →Some have called it the 'trial of the century,' saying it will rival Nuremberg for historical significance. Others decry the Guantanamo prosecution of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others as a 'show trial,' tainted by torture and secrecy.
Read More →Former U.S. Army Major Jason Wright speaks to the tradition of honor in the U.S. Armed Forces, arguing there is nothing honorable about torture. The National Religious Campaign Against Torture mobilizes people of faith to end torture.
Read More →The vast majority of the 166 detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay say they would rather starve than spend another day in limbo. One of the more than 100 men now on hunger strike is an Afghan man in his early thirties, known only as Obaidullah – a prisoner with no charges filed against him.
Read More →A U.S. military judge is considering broad security rules for the war crimes tribunal of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, including measures to prevent the accused from publicly revealing what happened to them in the CIA's secret network of overseas prisons.
Read More →Ten Taiwanese investors who poured millions of dollars into a real estate development project in Florida sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in D.C. federal court Thursday, alleging the government arbitrarily denied their EB-5 visa applications.
Read More →A US Army officer representing one of Guantanamo Bay's most notorious prisoners has spoken out against the secretive nature of the Military Commissions system, insisting it risks becoming little more than a 'show game' to execute suspects, denying them and the American people the right to a fair trial.
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