Monthly Archives: March 2016
Supreme Court rules for Miami defendant in Medicare fraud case
Sila Luis can get her money now, or at least her lawyers can. A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal prosecutors had violated the Cuban immigrant’s constitutional right to hire an attorney of her choosing by freezing all her assets, without regard to how she had come by them. Luis, who arrived in… Read More »
President Obama commutes 61 prison sentences, including six from South Florida
President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentences of 61 people on Wednesday, all of them convicted on drug-related charges. More than a third of the 61 individuals were serving life sentences, and six were from South Florida. In total, during his administration, Obama has commuted the sentences of 248 people, which according to the… Read More »
