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D. Edward Hays: The Beverly Hills Attorney Accused of Architecting a Bankruptcy Fraud Scheme

A federal RICO complaint accuses D. Edward Hays, a Beverly Hills attorney at Marshack Hays LLP, of orchestrating a bankruptcy fraud scheme that converted a Chapter 11 reorganization into a Chapter 7 liquidation, settled $75 million in claims for $200,000, and engineered a sale of the remaining estate claims to the very man accused of leading the criminal enterprise.

By Catherine Bell
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Scott Carpenter Sued in Corrupt Organizations Scheme: The Newport Beach Attorney Accused of Weaponizing the Legal System

A federal RICO complaint accuses Newport Beach attorney Scott R. Carpenter of weaponizing the legal system itself -- seizing a company's bank account through fraudulent wire communications, forging stock certificates for a company that had no stock, assembling perjured declarations, and using the threat of deportation to coerce a settlement from a foreign-born entrepreneur.

By Daniel Reeves