Kirkland &Ellis LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in Chicago,Illinois. Founded in 1909,Kirkland &Ellis is the largest law firm in the world by revenue and the seventh-largest by number of attorneys. It was the first law firm in the world to reach US$7 billion in annual revenue.
The Federal Correctional Institution,Seagoville is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Seagoville,Texas in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility includes a detention center for male offenders and an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum security-male offenders.
Public Enemy No. 1,also known as PENI Death Squad,is a prison and street gang formed in Long Beach,California and now based in Orange County,California. In 2004,the California Department of Justice described PEN1 as "one of the most powerful and fastest-growing gangs inside and outside prison",and reported it had about 200 members statewide. The gang's main activities include identity theft,credit card fraud,and methamphetamine sales.
In the United States,Medicare fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled. There are many different types of Medicare fraud,all of which have the same goal:to collect money from the Medicare program illegitimately.
Dave Aronberg is the State Attorney for Palm Beach County,Florida and a former member of the Florida Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2002 as its youngest member and served for eight years. He is a Democrat.
Jane Ellen Jackson Boyle is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Paul George Cassell is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah,who is currently the Ronald N. Boyce Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and University Distinguished Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in,and proponent of,victims' rights.
Mark Robert Filip is an American lawyer specializing in class action and white collar criminal and regulatory defense. Formerly a partner at Skadden,Arps,he currently practices in the Washington,D.C. office of Kirkland and Ellis. From 2004 until 2008,Filip served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. As the George W. Bush administration ended,Filip served as Deputy Attorney General of the United States,and as the Barack Obama administration began he briefly served as acting attorney general.
David Hittner is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He also has served by temporary assignment on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit,as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the District of Arizona. His tenure as a federal judge began in 1986,when he was nominated for the lifetime position by President Ronald Reagan and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench in 1986,Hittner served from 1978 to 1986 as the elected judge of the 133rd Judicial District Court of Harris County,Texas,based in Houston.
Virginia Mary Kendall is an American attorney and jurist serving as the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3,2006. In addition to serving on the bench,Judge Kendall is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking,as well as an adjunct professor and author.
In 2013,two prosecutors and a prosecutor's wife were murdered in Kaufman County,Texas. The case gained national attention in the United States due to speculation that the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang was responsible,but this was later found to be untrue. Eric Lyle Williams,a former lawyer and justice of the peace whose theft case was prosecuted by two of the victims,was tried,found guilty,and sentenced to death for two of the murders. He was also charged with the murder of prosecutor Mark Hasse,but a decision was made not to prosecute him as he had already received a death sentence for the other murders. His wife,Kimberly Irene "Kim" Williams,was tried separately,and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force is a multi-agency team of United States federal,state,and local investigators who combat Medicare fraud through data analysis and increased community policing. Launched in 2007,the Strike Force is coordinated by the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services. It combines the data-analysis capabilities of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,the investigative resources of the FBI,and the prosecutorial resources of the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorneys' Offices.
The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) is an American white supremacist and Neo-Nazi prison and street gang. According to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center,the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is one of the largest and most violent neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gangs and organized criminal enterprises in the United States,responsible for numerous murders and other violent crimes.
Andrew E. Lelling is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 2017 to 2021. He is best known for leading Operation Varsity Blues,the federal investigation and prosecution of a massive nationwide college admissions scandal,He also oversaw the largest-ever prosecution of MS-13,which all but eliminated the notorious Salvadoran gang in the Boston area and the prosecution of six eBay employees involved in the eBay stalking scandal which involved the terrorizing of a middle-aged couple living in greater Boston,Massachusetts. His tenure was also marked by major gang and healthcare enforcement actions. Lelling,however,was also criticized by some as being "overzealous,grandstanding,and politically motivated" for his prosecution of a local trial judge who helped an undocumented immigrant charged with drug crimes avoid arrest by immigration authorities.
Geoffrey Steven Berman is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2018 to 2020. He is the Global Chair of the litigation department at the law firm Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson.
Joseph D. Brown is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas from February 26,2018,until May 31,2020. He was formerly the District Attorney for Grayson County,Texas. Brown served as Grayson County's District Attorney for 17 years. He previously served as an associate attorney for the law firm of Cowles and Thompson and on the state board of the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. Brown received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas in 1995 and his Juris Doctor from Dedman School of Law. Brown is the son of former District Judge David Brown and the nephew of the late U.S. District Judge Paul Neeley Brown. On February 15,2018,his nomination to become a U.S. Attorney was confirmed by voice vote. He was sworn in on February 26,2018.
Erica Hinkle MacDonald is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 2018 to 2021. She served as a judge of the District Court for the First Judicial District of the State of Minnesota from 2010 to 2018;as an Assistant United States Attorney from 2000 to 2009;a litigation associate in 2000;and a federal judicial law clerk from 1997 to 1999.
Ada Elene Brown is an American lawyer who is a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She was the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas.
The Soldiers of Aryan Culture (SAC),sometimes referred to erroneously as Soldiers of the Aryan Culture or Soldiers of an Aryan Culture,is a large white supremacist prison gang in the United States.
Joshua David Hurwit is an American lawyer who is serving as United States attorney for the District of Idaho since 2022.
