In an unusual move for a divorce case, a Queens judge added Benny Tal’s business partners as defendants in Benny’s divorce action because the three men had colluded to hide Benny’s assets from his wife Michal.  As Michal told the New York Post, “It’s like a dirty soap opera. There’s so much fraud going on, we now have a divorce proceeding involving a husband, wife and his two business partners.” Benny, along with his…

Grammy award winner Ne-Yo and several professional athletes are among those set to testify in federal court against the principals of Ohio-based sports drink company Imperial Integrative Health Research & Development. Preston Harrison and Thomas Jackson are charged with defrauding investors out of $9.5 million. Harrison’s wife, Lovena Harrison, was hit with related tax fraud charges. Imperial Integrative Health Research & Development made OXYwater, a drink they claimed was highly-oxygenated and would improve energy and…

Grandchildren of the late Judge Leander Perez, a segregationist political boss who ruled Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana from the twenties until his death in 1968, recently filed a so-called “legacy lawsuit” against several large oil companies for allegedly polluting land on which the family held mineral rights.  The glaring problem with the plaintiffs’ case is that Perez stole the mineral rights in question from the Parish he controlled for over 40 years. Although it was no…