Sentencing for Kevin Fleming on tax-evasion charges has been postponed indefinitely. FILE PHOTO
Melissa Steele
Sentencing for area photographer Kevin Fleming has been postponed indefinitely.
Fleming, of Lewes, was ordered to file a status report on March 15 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The sentencing hearing that was scheduled for January has been postponed indefinitely, according to U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews.
Fleming entered a plea agreement Aug. 26, agreeing to plead guilty to one count of tax evasion in return for dismissal of the remaining 15 counts of felony tax charges he was facing.
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Boy Scouts Insurer Wants Sidley Austin Off Ch. 11 Case
Law360 (February 9, 2021, 6:10 PM EST) Century Indemnity Co., which provided coverage to the Boy Scouts of America, told a Delaware federal judge Tuesday that he should undo a bankruptcy court decision allowing Sidley Austin LLP to serve as the Scouts bankruptcy counsel because it had previously represented the insurer.
During oral arguments before U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews, attorneys for Century said Sidley had a conflict of interest when it sought the bankruptcy court s permission to represent the Boy Scouts retroactively to when its Chapter 11 case began in February 2020.
Years ago, I wanted to see the inside of Tamms, the downstate supermax prison that closed in 2013. The Illinois Department of Corrections said no. But Tamms had its own courtroom, where inmates accused of attacking guards were prosecuted and those who tore up bedsheets to hang themselves faced punishment for destruction of property. Open courts are sacrosanct, and so I attended a trial inside the lockup, and there was nothing prison officials could do about it except search my car when I arrived and grumble as they pawed through McDonald s wrappers and dirty socks, which they put in piles. I thanked them and said I d appreciate it if they d clean up the backseat, too.
Former New Bedford man pleads guilty to federal ammunition charge
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BOSTON – A Providence, R.I. man pleaded guilty Thursday to illegal possession of ammunition, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney s office.
Paul Marino, 57, formerly of New Bedford, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Marino was arrested and charged in September 2020. U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns scheduled sentencing for May 20, 2021.
On various dates in September 2019, Marino attempted to purchase a handgun and silencer from a federal agent acting in an undercover capacity. During a search of Marino’s home in New Bedford on Sept. 26, 2019, agents seized three 9mm handgun magazines and 277 rounds of 9mm ammunition from a closet in Marino’s bedroom. The ammunition was in a FedEx box addressed to “Vincent Amoroso” in Rhode Island and bearing a return address in Tennessee. Agents also seized counterfeit Virginia identification documents i
Jawad Musa, a Baltimore man incarcerated for the past 30 years on a drug charge, will go free after Donald Trump granted him a pardon early Wednesday morning before leaving office.