Blog Archive: May 2013

“A Kissimmee couple convicted in state court of defrauding elderly clients of their life savings agreed Wednesday to plead guilty to similar charges in federal court and could be sentenced to up to 10 years each in prison,” according to an Orlando Sentinel article by Susan Jacobson. On April 29, 2013, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida filed a formal criminal charge of mail fraud against disbarred-attorney Linda Vasquez Littlefield and her former husband, Ros...

  The largest environmental cleanup project in the United States is the effort to stabilize the highly radioactive nuclear waste stored at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, also known as the Hanford Site. The Hanford Site opened in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. This site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki and continued producing plutonium for our vast nuclear weapons arsenal throughout the Cold War. Now that the Hanford Site’s 53 million gallons of highly ...