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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: < Subject: FDIC Staffer *Accidentally' Took Bank Secrets, Jury Told Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 09:35:44 +0000 tlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR The Data-Driven Lawyer Meet the 2018 award winners and get insights into their innovative practices. Wednesday, December 5, 2018 Follow Law360 TOP NEWS b'aLaw360 Pro Say Podcast FDIC Staffer 'Accidentally' Took Bank Secrets, Jury Told Federal prosecutors and a lawyer for ex-FDIC employee Allison Aytes gave a Brooklyn jury competing narratives Tuesday about what drove Aytes to make copies of secret regulatory records before quitting, the feds saying she used them for job interviews and Aytes saying she accidentally swept them up with other personal files. Read full article » 2nd Circ. Nixes $8.9M Restitution From Gambler Billy Walters A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday vacated and remanded back to trial $8.89 million in restitution ordered against professional sports gambler Billy Walters for insider trading. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Epstein Ducks Victim Testimony With Eve-Of-Trial Settlement Convicted billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday settled a LAW FIRMS dispute with the attorney who represented his teenage victims, avoiding a trial that was to have featured testimony from the women. Read full article » Arnold & Itkin Baker McKenzie Flynn Gave 'Firsthand' Info, Could Avoid Time, Mueller Says Boies Schiller Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pled guilty to lying to the Carlton Fields FBI about his conversations with Russia's ambassador, provided "firsthand Cosgrove Eisenberg information" about the contact between President Donald Trump's team and Russian officials and should be sentenced leniently, special counsel Robert Covington & Burling Mueller said Tuesday. Read full article » Dechert DiMuroGinsberg PC Secrets Spilled In Panama Papers Lead To Indictment Of 4 Flachsbart & Greenspoon New York federal prosecutors announced the indictment of a lawyer and three other men on Tuesday on charges of wire fraud, tax evasion and Gibson Dunn money laundering, tying the case to the 2016 leak of documents from the law Hogan Lovells firm Mossack Fonseca called the Panama Papers. Read full article » Holland & Knight Jackson Lewis SERIES SPOTLIGHT K&L Gates Data-Driven Lawyer: Littler's Scott Forman Kirkland & Ellis Littler Mendelson PC shareholder Scott Forman's innovative case Kramer Levin management platform helps his firm analyze litigation data, craft defense Krieger Kim strategies, predict outcomes and greatly reduce client costs, earning him a Link & Rockenbach spot on our 2018 list of Data-Driven Lawyers. Read full article » Littler Mendelson EFTA00018654 POLICY & REGULATION McDermott Will Murphy & King DC Circ. Asks Why Gov't Legal Opinions Are FOIA-Exempt Murphy & McGonigle The U.S. Justice Department faced pointed questions from D.C. Circuit Paul Hastings judges Tuesday about its rationale for keeping legal advice to federal Searcy Denney agencies from public view. Read full article » Shapiro Arato SECURITIES Shipley Snell Sidley Austin Fla. Broker To Serve 61/2 Yrs For $16M Precious Metals Fraud Tucker Ellis Former Fort Lauderdale, Florida, broker Salvatore Colonna was sentenced to 6% years in prison and ordered to pay $13.1 million in restitution for his role COMPANIES in a $16 million precious metals and securities fraud scheme, the U.S. Altman Weil Inc. attorney's office, the FBI and the IRS announced Tuesday. Read full article » American Conference Institute Fund Manager's Firms Ordered To Pay $23M In Restitution Bank Leumi le-Israel Ltd. Three investment firms affiliated with admitted fraudster Haena Park were Bass Pro Shops ordered to pay $22.9 million in restitution by a New York federal judge Burford Capital LLC Monday for their role in defrauding dozens of Park's friends and family out of Cabela's Inc. more than $23 million over a six-year span. Read full article » California Teachers Association Energy Broker Fights 'Misguided' CFTC Insider Trading Suit Chicago Bulls A Houston-based energy commodities brokerage on Monday asked a New Citizens for Responsibility and York federal judge to drop claims and dismiss one of its brokers entirely from Ethics in Washington a "misguided" U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit accusing Counsel on Call Services Inc. the broker of using a friend's account to profit on nonpublic information about Deutsche Bank AG his clients' block trades. Read full article » General Motors FCPA Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Harbour Litigation Funding Ltd. NY Jury To Weigh Bribery Charges Against Hong Kong Doc Hilton Worldwide Inc. A Manhattan jury was on track Tuesday to begin deliberating bribery and IMF Bentham Ltd. money laundering charges against a Hong Kong doctor accused of boxing up $2 million in cash for the president of Chad to facilitate an oilfield investment Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. on behalf of a Chinese energy giant. Read full article » LexisNexis Group Linkedln Corp. PUBLIC INTEGRITY Manchester United National Basketball Association 1st Circ. Focuses On Extortion Benefit In Boston Aides' Case National Collegiate Athletic The First Circuit on Tuesday peppered attorneys for both the government and Association a pair of Boston City Hall aides on whether prosecutors need to show that someone accused of extortion personally benefits from the alleged act, New England Compounding during a hearing seeking to revive indictments against the mayor's Pharmacy Inc. lieutenants. Read full article » Planned Parenthood Federation Quill Corp. CYBERSECURITY Reed Elsevier Tampa Bay Buccaneers Hilton Sued Over Secret Filming Of NY Bar Exam Taker A law school graduate who stayed at a New York hotel before taking the bar The American Legion exam has sued Hilton and its affiliates for $100 million in Virginia state court, The Florida Bar claiming that secretly filmed footage of her showering in her room was posted Twitter Inc. on pornographic websites and emailed to her friends and colleagues. Read UnitedLex Corp. full article » Wayfair LLC LEGAL ETHICS YouTube Inc. Zillow Inc. Former DA Didn't Mean To Intimidate Witness, Pa. Panel Told A former Allegheny County prosecutor did not intend to intimidate a GOVERNMENT AGENCIES defendant's possible character witness when he phoned her during a trial in Commodity Futures Trading 2016, but only meant to see what traits she intended to testify to and how Commission EFTA00018655 well she really knew the defendant, a Pennsylvania Superior Court panel Federal Bureau of Investigation heard Tuesday. Read full article » Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. HEALTH Federal Reserve System Food and Drug Administration 6 NECC Workers Had Role In Drug Fraud, Feds Say In Closing Internal Revenue Service Prosecutors on Tuesday urged a jury after seven weeks of testimony to convict six former employees of the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy Office of Foreign Assets Control whose steroids sparked a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012, saying they Social Security Administration participated in a scheme to defraud federal regulators and ship out unsafe U.S. Attorneys Office drugs to medical facilities around the country. Read full article » U.S. Department of Homeland Pain Doc's 'Fame' Questioned In TM Suit Over Same Name Security A doctor accused of running a pill mill told an Illinois federal court Monday U.S. Department of Justice that a same-named pain doctor isn't "famous" enough to maintain claims for U.S. Department of the Treasury unfair competition alleging his business suffered due to confusion after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indictment. Read full article » U.S. Supreme Court PEOPLE United Nations Carlton Fields Picks Up K&L Gates Litigator In Miami Cadton Fields said Monday it has added a K&L Gates LLP trial lawyer as a shareholder in its business litigation and white collar crime practice groups in Miami. Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS A Welcome DOJ Shift On Cooperation Credit Changes announced last week by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will likely make it easier for a company to obtain cooperation credit in criminal and civil cases, while also potentially reducing some of the costs and burdens associated with complying with the prior U.S. Department of Justice policy, says John Nowak of Paul Hastings LLP. Read full article » Crypto Addresses As OFAC Identifiers Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Control took the significant step of adding two digital currency addresses to its list of identifiers for certain individuals related to an Iranian hacking enterprise. This should immediately alert entities that transact in digital assets, says Maxwell T.S. Thompson of Murphy & McGonigle PC. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Feature NewLaw Is Wooing BigLaw's Young Talent In search of new experiences and more flexibility, some young lawyers are pointing their career paths toward alternative legal service providers. Read full article » Scottie Pippen Claims Atty-Comedian Trashed Fla. Mansion NBA Hall of Famer and former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen hit a South Florida attorney-comedian and her husband with a lawsuit in state court Monday, accusing them of trashing his $10 million mansion, stealing cutlery and allowing their pets to urinate all over the property. Read full article » Litigation Funder Validity Poaches Pair From Bentham IMF Litigation funder upstart Validity Finance LLC said Tuesday it has poached two ex-litigators from rival Bentham IMF to oversee risk management and underwriting. Read full article » Insights From 2017-2018 High Court Term And What's Ahead EFTA00018656 Many expect the U.S. Supreme Court's new conservative majority to track rightward, while others wonder if any justices might assert a moderating influence as the new "swing vote." The court's recent decisions and upcoming docket provide the best clues about its trajectory, says Chad Eggspuehler of Tucker Ellis LLP. Read full article D JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Labor & Employment Associate ASSOCIATE - CORPORATE (BOSTON, MA Nixon Peabody LLP OFFICE) Jericho, New York McCarter & English, LLP Boston, Massachusetts Labor & Employment Associate Associate — Business Litigation Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart (Wilmington, DE) San Antonio, Texas McCarter & English Wilmington, Delaware Associate — Business Litigation (Wilmington, DE) McCarter & English Wilmington, Delaware Not sure if your firm subseribs? Ask your Mauna. We hope you found this message to be useful. 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