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Bitcoin Trader Targets Wells Fargo in $18M Fraud Suit

Written by R. Robin McDonald - Fulton County Daily Report | Apr 24, 2019 | News

Wells Fargo is accused of failing to investigate a Georgia attorney’s law firm trust accounts after the bank was informed she was likely using the accounts to facilitate fraudulent transactions. Atlanta attorneys representing Hong Kong trader GSR Markets Ltd. claim Wells Fargo failed to investigate Georgia attorney Diana McDonald’s law […]

Georgia Attorney Embroiled in Alleged $4M Bitcoin Fraud

Written by R. Robin McDonald - Fulton County Daily Report Online | Mar 14, 2019 | News

A federal judge has frozen multiple trust accounts of Georgia attorney Diana McDonald and ordered her to turn over a slew of financial records and communications. Judge Mike Brown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Northern District of Georgia (Photo: John Disney/ALM) A federal judge in Atlanta has issued a […]

Cobb con man gets prison time in Kentucky scam, must return $500K

Written by Ben Brasch - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Feb 8, 2017 | News

A man who ran a fraudulent Cobb County business was sentenced to almost two years in prison by a Kentucky federal judge Monday. Eric Charlton Claxton, the 30-year-old self-described “real estate whiz kid,” will spend 21 months in prison for three charges of wire fraud, the Courier-Journal in Louisville reported.  He must […]

Firm Victory with Department of Labor

Written by Firm | Apr 8, 2016 | Results

The Firm defended an Alpharetta-based eyeglass manufacturing company against a false claim for unemployment benefits, made by a former employee who previously forged correspondence on his supervisor’s computer to create a supposed basis for a sex discrimination claim. Like the sex discrimination claim, the unemployment benefits claim was baseless.  The […]

Volkswagen Suits Rev Up in Georgia

Written by Firm | Sep 30, 2015 | News

Three days after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency notified German auto manufacturer Volkswagen that cars it had sold in the United States for six years were violating federal emission standards, Atlanta attorney Richard Robbins filed what he says is the first product liability case against the carmaker in Georgia. Robbins […]

Atlanta law firm among first to sue Volkswagen over scandal

Written by Firm | Sep 24, 2015 | News

An Atlanta law firm has become among the first in the country to sue Volkswagen over its escalating emissions scandal. Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC on Sept. 22 filed a lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta against Volkswagen on behalf of a Georgia man, Joel Silverman, who bought a Jetta Sportwagen […]