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Criminal

Dec. 22, 2007

Lawyer Loses Bid to Transfer Money-Laundering Trial to N.Y.

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge denied a motion by Melyvn I. Weiss, the well-known class-action lawyer facing criminal money-laundering charges, to transfer his case from Los Angeles to a court in his hometown, Manhattan.

By Gabe Friedman
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - A federal judge denied a motion by Melyvn I. Weiss, the well-known class-action lawyer facing criminal money-laundering charges, to transfer his case from Los Angeles to a court in his hometown, Manhattan.
      Weiss, 72, had been joined in the motion by his law firm Milberg Weiss, which also is charged in the case, but U.S. Dist...

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