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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Calls For Probes Intensify After Roger Stone Sentence Fracas Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 08:39:30 +0000 Is aw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Thursday, February 13, 2020 Law360 TOP NEWS ;72,Law360 Practice Groups of the Analysis Year Calls For Probes Intensify After Roger Stone Sentence Fracas The U.S. Department of Justice's about-face in the Roger Stone case has fueled calls for investigations into the Trump administration's potential interference into cases against the president's friends, but political and legal obstacles may stand in the way. Read full article » Judge Rejects Roger Stone's Bid For A New Trial A D.C. federal judge tossed Roger Stone's request for a new trial based on claims that a biased government employee sat on the jury panel, which found him guilty on seven felony charges including lying to Congress about WikiLeaks, according to a court filing unsealed Wednesday. Order attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS Aidala Bertuna Ex-Theranos CEO Escapes Charges She Defrauded Doctors Akerman LLP A California federal judge has cut criminal charges alleging former Theranos Alston & Bird CEO Elizabeth Holmes and another executive defrauded doctors and insured patients about the viability of the once high-flying startup's blood-testing Arent Fox technology, but left intact most of the indictment, rejecting defense arguments Arnold & Porter that it is "unconstitutionally vague." BakerHostetler Order attached I Read full article » Bass Berry Berger Montague Boies Denies He Defamed Dershowitz With Epstein Remarks Bird & Bird Prominent litigator David Boies hit back Wednesday against defamation counterclaims by embattled attorney Alan Dershowitz, saying statements he Boles Schiller made about Dershowitz's alleged connection to notorious sex offender Bradley Arant Jeffrey Epstein were true and protected by the First Amendment. Brinks Gilson & Lione 1 document attached I Read full article >> Brown & Connery Bruce S. Rogow PA Boston City Hall Aides Get Extortion Conviction Tossed Buschel & Gibbons Two former aides to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh saw their Hobbs Act extortion Carlton Fields convictions thrown out Wednesday, as a federal judge said the government failed to show a clear quid pro quo or "wrongful conduct" for the pair Collier Halpem pressuring a music festival to hire union labor. Cosgrove Eisenberg Order attached I Read full article >> Davis Polk Dentons Air Charter Co. Execs Can't Slip Fraud Convictions At 3rd Circ. Gibson Dunn The Third Circuit has upheld two charter airline executives' convictions for Goldman Scarlato stealing millions in passenger payments by lying and falsifying documents, Goodwin EFTA00032942 saying Wednesday that documents found after trial — previously thought Greenberg Traurig destroyed — would not have changed the outcome. Hogan Lovells Opinion attached I Read full article » Holland & Hart INVESTIGATIONS Holwell Shuster Husch Blackwell Harvard, Yale Probed Over Unreported Foreign Funds Kellogg Hansen The U.S. Department of Education has launched investigations into potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in unreported foreign gifts and King & Spalding contracts accepted by Yale and Harvard universities in recent years, the Kirkland & Ellis department announced Wednesday. Lane Powell Read full article » Latham & Watkins Levi & Korsinsky SECURITIES Linklaters FTC Targeted Sanctuary Belize To Punish Founder, Judge Told Lowenstein Sandler A Federal Trade Commission suit targeting the operators of purported luxury Mayer Brown development Sanctuary Belize was sparked by a personal vendetta against McDermott Will the project's mastermind — and not legitimate consumer concerns — one of Morgan Lewis the executives told a Maryland federal court Wednesday on the last day of Morrison & Foerster trial. Munger Tolles Read full article » O'Melveny & Myers PNC Abetted $75M 'Ponzi-Like' Scheme, Investment Cos. Say Olshan Frome Wolosky Two investment companies and a Pennsylvania man on Wednesday hit PNC Orrick Bank and Heartland Bank & Trust with a proposed class action accusing the Paul Weiss banks of aiding and abetting a $75 million Ponzi scheme in which an Illinois man allegedly took money from more than 500 investors. Polsinelli Complaint attached I Read full article » Riley Warnock Robbins Geller Fund Says Fugitive Ex-Nissan Exec Must Face Securities Suit Searby LLP If Nissan Motor Co.'s ex-chairman wanted a federal judge to buy his Sheppard Mullin argument that he can't face a securities fraud suit in Tennessee due to an Sullivan & Cromwell upcoming trial in Japan, he shouldn't have fled that country in a suitcase, a Troutman Sanders pension fund argued Wednesday. White and Williams Response attached Read full article » Williams & Connolly Glencore Seeks To Dismiss Stock-Drop Suit Over FCPA Probe WilmerHale Mining giant Glencore PLC told a New Jersey federal judge that his court's Winston & Strawn lack of personal jurisdiction was among the many faults that required Womble Bond Dickinson dismissal of a stock-drop suit connected to announcements that the Swiss company's overseas dealings were being investigated. COMPANIES Brief attached Read full article » Alaska Oil and Gas Association American Bar Association SEC Sues California Investment Firm Over $1.1M In Side Deals Center for American Progress The SEC slapped a California investment firm and its directors with a Chevron Corp. securities suit Wednesday, alleging they failed "to disclose a glaring conflict Coinbase Inc. of their financial interests" when they advised their clients to invest over $16 million in private placement funds and then pocketed over $1.1 million in side Consolidated Edison Inc. deals. Federalist Society Complaint attached I Read full article » Fordham University Glencore Xstrata PLC CYBERSECURITY Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Heartland Bank & Trust Co. Silk Road Dealer Busted In $19M Bitcoin Haul Gets 31/2 Years International Brotherhood of A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a 61-year-old Ohio businessman who Teamsters sold oxycodone on the Silk Road online drug bazaar to 3% years in prison K2 Intelligence LLC Wednesday after the feds caught him lying about where he had gotten bitcoins that had surged in value to $19 million. L Brands Inc. EFTA00032943 Read full article » Linkedln Corp. HEALTH London Stock Exchange Group PLC Texas Doc Fights Claim Of $69M In Unneeded Treatments Microsoft Corp. Attorneys representing a Houston-area doctor accused of seeking more than Mitsubishi Motors Corp. $69 million in reimbursements for medically unnecessary lead poisoning National Association for the treatments tried to show through testimony on Wednesday that a difference Advancement of Colored People in professional opinions on treatment options does not equate to fraud. Read full article » New York University Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. TAX Novartis AG PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Export Business Owner Gets 3 Years For Concealing Income Temple University A California businessman will spend the next three years in federal prison for The Madison Square Garden Co. concealing his income from the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice has announced. Trelleborg AB Read full article » Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Walgreens Co. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Yale University Texas Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Trade Secret Theft GOVERNMENT AGENCIES A Texas man will serve 16 months in prison and will forfeit more than Commodity Futures Trading $342,000 following his conviction for conspiring to steal trade secrets, U.S. Commission Department of Justice officials said Tuesday. Executive Office of the President Read full article » Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Trade Commission EXPERT ANALYSIS Internal Revenue Service Effective AML, Anti-Bribery Programs Hinge On Collaboration Judicial Conference of the United Amid increasing risk exposure from financial services companies' partners, States clients and affiliates, opportunities exist to leverage processes across firms' National Institutes of Health anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption programs, says Occupational Safety and Health Michelle Goodsir at K2 Intelligence. Administration Read full article » Ontario Securities Commission Securities and Exchange SEC Exam Priorities Highlight Flexible, Holistic Compliance Commission The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently released exam Serious Fraud Office priorities encourage firms to emphasize investor protection and consider compliance in light of evolving business and market demands, say attorneys U.S. Attorney's Office at Lowenstein Sandler. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third 1 document attached Read full article Circuit U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Education LEGAL INDUSTRY U.S. Department of Health and Q&A Human Services Microsoft Atty Looks To A Legal Future Saved U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of Transportation From Drudgery U.S. Department of the Interior Microsoft assistant general counsel Jason Barnwell gives his take U.S. District Court for the Central on whether tech will replace lawyers, the challenges of getting them District of California on board with innovation and what the practice of law will look like U.S. District Court for the District of for his team's youngest members when they take the helm. Maryland Read full article » U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Feature U.S. District Court for the District of What Law Firm Leaders Say You Should Know New Jersey U.S. District Court for the Eastern For The Future District of New York EFTA00032944 Here, in front of the camera, law firm leaders talk about how to U.S. District Court for the Northern prepare for a future where technology and a new generation of District of California talent and competitors will change the way attorneys work. U.S. District Court for the Northern Read full article » District of Illinois Novartis Taps Firms Ready To Pony Up On Diversity — Or Else U.S. District Court for the Southern Novartis AG on Wednesday said it has chosen nearly two dozen preferred District of New York law firms that have agreed to diverse staffing requirements for each legal U.S. Marine Corps matter, with the understanding that the pharmaceutical giant will deny a U.S. Navy portion of payment for failing to hit the goals. U.S. Supreme Court Read full article » White And Male: Federal Bench Still Struggling With Diversity White men still dominate the bench in U.S. federal courts, and that lack of diversity could lead litigants to question the federal judiciary's legitimacy, according to a new study released Thursday, which found that more than a third of all federal district courts did not have even one nonwhite judge. Read full article » Garland Succeeded By Srinivasan As DC Circ. Chief Judge Merrick Garland was replaced by Sri Srinivasan on Wednesday as chief judge of the powerful D.C. Circuit after completing a seven-year term marked by widely praised transparency initiatives, a crippling government shutdown and, of course, an unsuccessful nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read full article » Judge Weinstein Steps Back From Bench After 53 Years U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein, a nonagenarian who worked on the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and has sat on the Eastern District of New York bench since 1967, is effectively retiring, his law clerk confirmed Wednesday. Read full article » Gibson Dunn Partner Among Picks For NY Federal Bench The White House on Wednesday said it would nominate a Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP litigation partner to the federal trial court in Manhattan and a New York-based U.S. Department of Justice official to the one in Brooklyn. Read full article » BakerHostetler, Bradley Arant Partners On Track For Bench Two BigLaw partners and two other judicial nominees sailed through a perfunctory Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday with just four senators questioning President Donald Trump's picks for district courts in Texas, Florida and Alabama and the Court of Federal Claims. Read full article » Husch Blackwell Vet, Pirro Pick Among 4 New District Judges The Senate on Wednesday approved four nominees to district courts in New York, Illinois, Missouri and Alaska, confirming a Husch Blackwell partner, a New Yorker recommended by Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a Winston & Strawn alum and a Trump administration lawyer. Read full article » Trump's Alaska Trial Court Pick Worth $761K President Donald Trump's just-confirmed pick for a federal trial court seat in Alaska, a regional solicitor for the U.S. government and former counsel to the state's oil and gas lobby, is worth close to $761,000, according to his financial disclosures to Congress. Read full article » EFTA00032945 Law Firm Leaders: Akerman's Scott Meyers Scott A. Meyers took on the chairman and CEO role at Akerman on Feb. 3, following up two years serving as the law firm's managing partner. Here, Meyers discusses why he thinks Akerman is "less bureaucratic' than the typical BigLaw firm, his goals for the firm's future, and how he approaches hiring lawyers that are a good cultural fit. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Labor & Employment Associate Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone. LLP Mineola, New York Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. 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