The VLW Blog

A former Giles County Circuit Court clerk is on trial in Roanoke accused of running a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors of millions of dollars.  As reported by The Roanoke Times, however, his attorney claims Ted James Johnson Jr. was more like a victim of the nation’s financial confusion.
Johnson’s attorney Tony Anderson described some of […]

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Talk about a train wreck.
Here are the latest numbers on the devastation caused by Stephen Conrad, the Prince William County lawyer who systematically settled without authorization and pocketed the proceeds from the personal injury cases of his clients:
-         $4 million stolen
-         $455,366 in legal fees and expenses for the receivership that is winding up Conrad’s […]

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Stephen T. Conrad, the disbarred Woodbridge lawyer suspected of taking more than $3.5 million  from his personal injury and workers’ compensation clients, pleaded guilty today to federal fraud charges.
This press release from the U.S. attorney’s office has the details of the plea.Conrad consented in December to the revocation of his law license, and a […]

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Rick and Susan Garmon still have a Prince William County jury’s finding that a contractor is liable for constructive fraud for using a barrier exterior insulation and finish system on their home.
The Garmons testified that they had insisted on a drainable EIFS system, but the contractor had installed a barrier system instead.
But Circuit Judge William […]

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After a house fire that took the life of a Blacksburg builder and severely burned his granddaughter, the community passed the hat to help the family. Now, the injured granddaughter is taking the builder’s widow to court, saying that the widow has kept all the donated money for herself. There are six theories of recovery, […]

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A Washington & Lee business professor studied those scratch ticket games run by the Virginia lottery and concluded that the state continues to sell tickets in a game even after the big prizes for that game have been won. Buying what he contends was a “stale” ticket last year, Scott Hoover now intends to challenge […]

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The federal criminal case of former Lynchburg Mayor Carl R. Hutcherson Jr. is over.
Hutcherson was convicted last year of fraud and other counts but appealed those convictions to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The government also appealed, contending that the sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge James C. Turk was unreasonable.
Federal sentencing guidelines […]

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