Shapero Moot Court Competition, Symposium on tap
The American Bankruptcy Institute and the Walter Shapero Symposium Committee will hold the 2020 Shapero Cup Moot Court Competition and Symposium on Presidents’ Day, Feb. 17, in Room 115 at the U.S. District Courthouse in Detroit.
Following the competition, at 5 p.m. attendees can join the students, coaches, and judges for a symposium featuring the same fact pattern the teams argued earlier in the day. A reception and awards ceremony to congratulate the participating teams and to network with colleagues will follow.
The Honorable Walter Shapero Bankruptcy Symposium, named in Judge Shapero’s honor for his many years of outstanding service as a bankruptcy judge, is a nonprofit entity dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and understanding of bankruptcy law.
Cost is $25 per person. To purchase tickets, visit www.abi.org/events.
Church immigration aide gets prison for defrauding people
KALAMAZOO (AP) — An immigrant who worked for the Roman Catholic Church in Kalamazoo was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison Monday for stealing fees from other immigrants who sought help to stay or work in the country.
Monica Mazei, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Ecuador, concealed the scheme by failing to open files for some people and persuading them to give cash or blank checks, the government said.
Mazei was ordered to pay $59,000 to her victims, four months after pleading guilty to fraud. She worked in the Kalamazoo Diocese's immigration assistance program.
"Ms. Mazei attributes the motivation for her conduct to her husband losing his employment, their separation and ultimately their divorce," defense attorney James Stevenson Fisher said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler said a “substantial number of victims" who paid cash can't be identified and won't receive restitution.
Woman sees missing dog on beer cans
promoting shelter dogs
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — A Florida brewery that recently began placing shelter dogs' faces on beer cans helped reunite a Minnesota woman with her dog, Hazel, who went missing three years ago.
Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton teamed up recently with the Manatee County Animal Shelter to turn beer cans into adoption flyers for shelter dogs.
Monica Mathis of St. Paul, Minnesota, told KSTP she was stunned when she spotted Hazel's face on a beer can that had been photographed and posted on social media.
Mathis contacted the shelter, which needed proof that the terrier mix, now with a name of Day Day, was in fact Hazel.
Mathis said she was living in Iowa when Hazel disappeared from her yard in 2017. Then, a new job took her to Minnesota.
She said she has no idea how the dog got to Florida.
The shelter confirmed that Day Day is Hazel. Mathis said animal services couldn't immediately find her earlier because the contact information on Hazel's microchip was out of date.
The shelter covered the cost of transporting Hazel to Minnesota, just in time to celebrate the dog's seventh birthday.
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