A federal judge has accepted a Virginia lawyer’s guilty plea in relation to what prosecutors said was a scheme to extort $200 million from a chemical manufacturing company.
Timothy Litzenburg of Charlottesville pleaded guilty in June to transmission of interstate communications with intent to extort. The company wasn’t identified.
Judge Norman K. Moon of the Western District of Virginia accepted the plea agreement and found Timothy Litzenburg on Monday, the court order said.
The Charlottesville, Va., lawyer, along with Daniel Kincheloe of Glen Allen, Va., “blew well past the line of aggressive advocacy and crossed deep into the territory of ...
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