Fil Am News

JUDGE O'BRIEN'S LAW LICENSE SUSPENDED

FIL AM JUDGE HAS UNTIL MAY 21ST TO FILE HER POST-TRIAL MOTIONS By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – The Illinois Supreme Court had suspended Filipino American Cook County Circuit Judge Jessica Arong O'Brien on Thursday (April 26th) from practicing “law effective

DOCTOR GETS 18 MONTHS; HEALTHCARE CO-OWNER GETS 36 MONTHS FOR MEDICARE FRAUD

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA  (© 2018Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Roberto Quizon, 71, a licensed physician of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and owner of Green Cross Medical Center, was sentenced last April 26 to 18 months in prison

RETIRED U.S. GENERAL BLASTS U.S. CONGRESS

[pb_row][pb_column span="span12"][pb_text] By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – When the United States Congress passed the Rescission Act of 1946, it did not only “rob” the Filipino and Filipino American World War II veterans of their

$150-K BOND FOR FIL AM LAWYER, WIFE IN SHOOTING OF HIS FORMER CLIENTS

By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – A $10-Million bond was recommended for the provisional release of a Filipino American bankruptcy and immigration lawyer during a court hearing on April 2 at the Los Angeles

USPGG DID NOT INVITE FORMER SEN. ESTRADA, SAYS LOIDA N. LEWIS

"MISUNDERSTANDING" MARS INVITATION By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Filipino American leaders Loida Nicolas Lewis and Rodel Rodis had clarified that their U.S. Pinoys for Good Governance had not authorized USPGG-Michigan's Willie

U.S. IS HOME SWEET HOME TO MOST OVERSEAS FILIPINOS

THERE ARE 4.1-M FILIPINOS IN THE U.S. By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – The United States is home to by far the largest number of Filipinos abroad, according to Migration Policy Institute, a Washington,

O'BRIEN'S VERDICT SENT TO LAWYERS' DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION

FIL AM HIRES A NEW LAWYER By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (© 2018 Journal GlobaLinks) CHICAGO (JGL) – Judge Thomas M. Durkin of the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago had ordered the Clerk of Court to “provide a certified copy

EX-COMELEC CHAIR UNDER MEDICAL TREATMENT IN U.S.

[pb_row][pb_column span="span12"][pb_text] By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (Exclusive) (© 2018 philamessenger.com) CHICAGO (JGL) – Former Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Andres D. Bautista is eager and anxious to go home to the Philippines because he wants to look