The scene of the crash. Images: Traffic Wales/Dyfed-Powys Police A MAN has been jailed for taking a car and crashing it into a Powys shop, causing more than £300,000 worth of damage and injuring his cousin. Cousins Leejay Richards, 23, and Lee Richards, 18, both of Llandovery Road, Llanwrtyd, were sentenced at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court for the incident in January last year, which left the community without its shop during the coronavirus lockdown. The pair were travelling in a Renault Clio which belonged to their grandmother with Leejay at the wheel as they collided with the Premier Store in Llanwrtyd in the early hours of January 24 last year, having been drinking in Builth Wells.
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Prosecutor Donna Billek leaves the courtroom shortly after the judge cleared the courtroom during a hearing for Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. in Colorado Springs, Colorado in December 2015. Billek, a longtime El Paso County prosecutor Donna Billek, is set to be demoted early in February 2020, a move that freed up her senior rank for a former district attorney recruited after a controversial tenure in Adams and Broomfield counties.
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Michael Allen, lead prosecutor, address the press after the first appearance of Letecia Stauch, 36, in El Paso County District Court in Colorado Springs, Colo., on March 11, 2020. Stauch was formally charged with first-degree murder and three other counts. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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A veteran El Paso County prosecutor whose family appears linked to more than $13,000 in spending to lift Michael Allen’s winning bid to be the Pikes Peak region’s next district attorney has been selected for a top job in Allen s administration.
Reggy Short will serve as a chief deputy district attorney, the office’s third-highest rank, when Allen’s term in office begins Jan. 12, Allen confirmed.
Short’s promotion is expected to boost his $111,400 salary to roughly $140,000, Allen told The Gazette. Short, now a senior deputy district attorney under term-limited DA Dan May, edged out several fellow senior deputies who also interviewed for the job, Allen said.
Perkins Coie hires 12-partner investigations and litigation team from Richards Kibbe & Orbe
16 December 2020
Perkins Coie hires 12-partner investigations and litigation team from Richards Kibbe & Orbe
Seattle-based firm boosts New York and Washington DC arms as Richards Kibbe responds with rebranding and reorganisation
Songquan Deng Perkins Coie has hired a highly rated 12-partner white collar and financial services litigation team from Richards Kibbe & Orbe. The 17-lawyer strong group is led by Lee Richards, one of his former firm’s founding partners, and David Masse – both are former Assistant US Attorneys from the Southern District of New York. The departing lawyers represent approximately one quarter of the New York-based firm, which is rebranding as Kibbe & Orbe on 1 January alongside a pledge that its remaining corporate and regulatory attorneys will ‘continue to find innovative solutions for clients structuring and transacting in high-value investments and illi