Attorney Weiss gets prison in kickback scheme

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Another fly in the ointment. Are all the lawyers , especially the big names, earning their big checks in more or less similar ways? This guy simply ruins the great efforts of every other serious lawyers (if there is any at all) in the states. Lawyers are to protect the law, not to make use of it for personal interests, only.

Attorney Weiss gets prison in kickback scheme

6/2/2008, 6:19 p.m. EDT By GREG RISLING The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Melvyn Weiss, the co-founder of a law firm known for securities class-action suits, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in prison for his role in a lucrative lawsuit kickback scheme targeting some of the largest corporations in the nation.

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter also ordered Weiss, 72, to pay $9.7 million in forfeitures and $250,000 in fines.

In a prepared, handwritten statement read before sentencing, Weiss apologized for his "wrongful conduct" and described the case as a fall from grace.

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