- Ron Rockwell Hansen, a former Defense Intelligence Agency case officer, was arrested in Seattle for spying on behalf of China — here’s the arrest warrant and complaint
- So many ways to commit fraud — here’s gift card fraud complete with reverse engineering, algorithms, and other techy Seattle things that lawyers don’t understand, as exemplified by the indictment
- Apparently, embezzling from a tribe is its own separate crime
- I love the Washington Post but they get this story about civil asset forfeiture completely wrong and in the most lazy way by simply repeating an attorney’s allegations — a post to follow about how asset forfeiture really works
- Another laugher from the Washington Post about the possible end of legalese — legalese will never die and we’ll have a future post on why
- The SEC is going after a lawyer here in Seattle who specializes in sham IPOs