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From: White Collar Law360 <news@law360.com> To: Subject: 2nd Circ. Rejects Immediate Stay In Trump Tax Subpoena Suit Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:54:45 +0000 claw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, August 24, 2020 Gtfollow Law360 TOP NEWS '''„Law360 Rising Stars 2nd Circ. Rejects Immediate Stay In Trump Tax Subpoena Suit The Second Circuit said Friday that it will consider President Donald Trump's request to pause a decision allowing a Manhattan grand jury to subpoena his tax records pending an appeal, but the court denied his request for an immediate stay. 4 documents attached I Read full article » Loughlin Gets 2 Mos., Husband 5 Mos. In 'Varsity Blues' Case Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced Friday to two months and five months in prison, respectively, for their roles in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal after admitting to paying bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits. Read full article » LAW FIRMS Adam Leitman Feds Want Accused Chinese Spy Held As 'Extreme Flight Risk' Akin Gump U.S. attorneys in Hawaii endeavored to convince a federal judge to deny bail Arnold & Porter to an ex-CIA agent accused of spying for China in a filing released Thursday, citing a "war chest of damning evidence" and calling him "an extreme flight Baker Botts risk." Beach Cowdrey Memorandum attached I Read full article » Becker & Poliakoff Bernstein Liebhard Feds Say Maxwell Can't Use Criminal Discovery In Civil Suits Bervar & Jones Federal prosecutors urged a New York federal judge on Friday to deny a Blank Rome request by Ghislaine Maxwell to let her file certain criminal discovery Cadwalader Wickersham materials under seal in unspecified civil suits against her, arguing that Calfee Halter Maxwell is attempting to "blur the lines between the criminal discovery process and civil litigation." Carella Byrne Letter attached I Read full article » Clark Hill Cohen & Gresser LA Blast That Injured Firefighters Sparks Criminal Charges Consovoy McCarthy An explosion at a commercial property in downtown Los Angeles that injured Cozen O'Connor a dozen firefighters earlier this year has sparked criminal charges against the Donnelly Conroy building's owners and managers, the city attorney's office announced Friday. Ericksen Arbuthnot 4 documents attached I Read full article Fenwick & West Fish & Richardson COMPLIANCE Flachsbart & Greenspoon Feds Stress Risk Focus For 'Politically Exposed' Bank Clients Foley & Lardner Fox Rothschild EFTA00025258 The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and federal banking regulators Franklin Soto LLP said Friday that banks should make sure their "politically exposed" clients Fried Frank receive customer due diligence that matches their risk levels but don't need Gibson Dunn to subject these clients to special extra scrutiny. Statement attached I Read full article » Glancy Prongay Haddon Morgan SECURITIES Hogan Lovells Traders Sue Scotiabank After $127M Spoofing Deal With DOJ Jones Day A pair of commodities traders sued Scotiabank on Friday after the Toronto- K&L Gates based bank admitted in a $127 million settlement with the U.S. government King & Spalding to an eight-year scheme to manipulate the market for precious metals futures Kirkland & Ellis contracts. Latham & Watkins Complaint attached Read full article » Law Offices of Alan S. Futerfas Fiat Chrysler Aims To Dump Investor Suit Over UAW Bribes Levi & Korsinsky Fiat Chrysler on Friday urged a New York federal court to ditch a stock-drop Lewis Brisbois suit accusing the automaker of concealing a scheme to bribe officials at the Lowenstein Sandler United Automobile Workers, insisting that none of its executives was aware of Manatt Phelps the bribery scheme and its financial disclosures therefore weren't misleading Mark Beck Law or inaccurate. Marshall Gerstein Motion attached I Read full article » Miller Canfield SEC Says There's 'No Dispute' Biotech Brass Broke Law Morgan Lewis The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday sought partial Mukasey Frenchman judgments against the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Munger Tolles biotechnology company Osiris Therapeutics Inc., telling a Maryland federal Nussbaum Law Group PC judge that there was no good faith argument to be made that the men didn't Patterson & Sheridan violate federal securities law by scheming to cook the company's books. Paul Hastings 2 documents attached I Read full article » Paul Weiss SEC Sues Ex-Brokers For Role In $22M Belize Airport Ponzi Quinn Emanuel The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission targeted two former brokers Reed Smith in New York federal court on Friday for the unregistered sale of securities to Ropes & Gray about half of the investor victims in a $22 million Ponzi scheme fronted by a Rosen Law Firm PA purported airport project in Belize. Scheper Kim Complaint attached ' Read full article » Selendy & Gay Sheppard Mullin CFTC Seeks $572M From Vanished Crypto Fraud Suspect The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking a default Sidley Austin judgment against apparent U.K. resident Benjamin Reynolds that would put Squire Patton Boggs him on the hook for $572 million after the agency alleged he stole 22,858 Stoel Rives bitcoins in a Ponzi scheme-like fraud and failed to appear in the case. Sullivan & Cromwell 2 documents attached I Read full article » Swanson Martin Vogl Meredith Investor Claims Ohio Utility Played Role In $60M Bribery Plot White & Case American Electric Power Co. Inc. is facing a proposed class action from an investor who says the utility's stock lost value after an Ohio newspaper ran WilmerHale an investigative report implicating AEP in a more than $60 million corruption Wilson Elser plot. Complaint attached Read full article » COMPANIES Amazon.com Inc. LEGAL ETHICS American Airlines Group Inc. American Bar Association Dallas Atty Hit With 6-Month Suspension For Misconduct American Electric Power Co. Inc. A three-judge panel of the Northern District of Texas has suspended a Dallas Appaloosa Management LP criminal defense attorney from practicing before the court for six months, Apple Inc. finding she violated a judge's order to stop communicating with an ex-client and lied to prosecutors. Association of Corporate Counsel EFTA00025259 Order attached I Read full article » Center for Justice HEALTH Cisco Systems Inc. Dealogic LLC NextHealth Marketer Charged In $60M Kickback Scheme Deutsche Bank AG A pharmacy marketer has been charged in a $60 million health care kickback Eli Lilly & Co. scheme, accused of helping a pharmacy and laboratory services company FCA US LLC recruit physicians, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Read full article » Federalist Society Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV III. Doctors With Same Name Agree To End Trademark Fight Financial Industry Regulatory An Illinois federal judge on Friday permanently dismissed a case between a Authority Inc. doctor and another physician of the same name, the latter of whom was FirstEnergy Corp. accused of capitalizing off their similar names to run an opioid "pill mill" and Fred Alger & Co. Inc. tarnish the plaintiffs professional standing. Google Inc. I document attached I Read full article » Humana Inc. Fla. Telemedicine Schemers Cost Humana Millions, Suit Says Janus Henderson Group PLC Humana Insurance Co. sued a Florida telemedicine company on Thursday Liberty Mutual Insurance Group for allegedly preying upon Humana members through a telemedicine scheme Mazars LLP that billed the insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription Michelin Group creams. Microsoft Corp. Complaint attached I Read full article » National Futures Association Osiris Therapeutics Inc. IMMIGRATION Skype Technologies SA Feds Arrest Va. Man Over Alleged $21M H-1B Scam Spotify Technology SA A Virginia information technology business owner was arrested Thursday on The Bank of Nova Scotia charges of orchestrating a $21 million immigration fraud scheme that saw The Boeing Co. him using his companies to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas for foreign tech The Clorox Co. workers. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Read full article » Rights Under Law Trump Organization Inc. CONSUMER PROTECTION U S Chamber of Commerce Pa. AG Hits Amazon Seller With Sanitizer Price-Gouging Suit United Auto Workers Pennsylvania's attorney general is seeking $1 million in penalties against a University of Southern California Philadelphia-based company accused of illegally jacking up the price of hand YouTube Inc. sanitizer it sold on Amazon.com as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in March. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Complaint attached I Read full article » Central Intelligence Agency Commodity Futures Trading EXPERT ANALYSIS Commission Congressional Research Service Opinion Equal Employment Opportunity Pandemic Is No Excuse To Limit Defendants' Trial Rights Commission Chicago federal prosecutors' recent argument that the pandemic compels two ex-Deutsche Bank traders to choose between their right to a speedy trial European Union and the right to confront witnesses in person is not only inconsistent with Executive Office of the President current law but fundamentally unfair, say John Richter and Christina Kung at Federal Bureau of Investigation King & Spalding. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Read full article » Federal Judicial Center Why Remote Depositions Are Likely Here To Stay Federal Reserve System As attorneys and their clients realize it is possible to conduct video Financial Crimes Enforcement depositions just as smoothly as in-person sessions while eliminating travel, Network catering and other costs, they will likely demand that remote procedures Florida Supreme Court remain in place even after the pandemic is contained, says Darren Goldman Library of Congress at Becker & Poliakoff. EFTA00025260 Read full article » Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court LEGAL INDUSTRY National Credit Union Legend In Law: Liberty Mutual Insurance's James Kelleher Administration Kelleher, chief legal officer for one of the largest U.S. insurers, has been National Labor Relations Board named a Burton Awards Legend in Law, a distinction reserved for the top Office of the Comptroller of the general counsel in the nation. Currency Read full article » Ohio House of Representatives U.S. Attorney's Office BigLaw And The Ballot: The Pro Bono Fight For Mail-In Voting U.S. Court of Appeals for the With the U.S. presidential election looming and the coronavirus pandemic still Eleventh Circuit raging, pro bono attorneys at BigLaw firms are increasingly jumping into court U.S. Court of Appeals for the First battles over mail-in voting that are moving at unprecedented speed. Circuit Read full article » U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 33-Year-Old Trump Judicial Pick Attacked Over Experience U.S. Department of Homeland Liberal advocates are lambasting President Donald Trump's youthful pick for a Florida federal judgeship, questioning the trial experience of a Jones Day Security associate who graduated law school in 2012 and would be the youngest U.S. Department of Justice federal judge in over 30 years. U.S. District Court for the District of Read full article » Hawaii U.S. District Court for the District of Stoel Rives Walks Back COVID-19 Cuts But Will Remain Wary Maryland Stoel Rives LLP has announced that it will partly roll back the salary U.S. District Court for the District of reductions it implemented in the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Massachusetts although the firm said that it will continue to "operate cautiously." U.S. District Court for the District of Read full article » New Jersey U.S. District Court for the Eastern Lowenstein Securities Chair Forms New Firm With Colleagues District of New York Lawrence Rolnick, the chair of Lowenstein Sandler LLP's securities litigation U.S. District Court for the Eastern practice, is taking nine of his colleagues with him to start a new firm catering District of Virginia to the investment management industry, he told Law360 on Friday. U.S. District Court for the Northern Read full article » District of California Calif. Atty Says Lewis Brisbois Cheated Him Of $1M Fee Award U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois A California attorney has filed a fraud suit against Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, one of its partners and several other firms and attorneys who U.S. District Court for the Northern allegedly cheated him out of over $1 million in attorney fees from a District of Texas settlement in a personal injury lawsuit. U.S. District Court for the Southern Read full article » District of Florida U.S. District Court for the Southern GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week District of New York The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came closer to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed rule that modifies its presuit conciliation process for settling bias U.S. Postal Service claims against employers, and a new survey found that staff changes have affected a majority of in-house attorneys' workload. These are some of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read full article » U.S. Supreme Court United States District Court for the In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 Southern District of Ohio For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read full article » Podcast Law360's Pro Say: The Artistry Of The Courtroom Sketch The courtroom sketch artist has one of the legal world's most fascinating professions and, so long as television access to court proceedings remains limited, maybe one of the most important. EFTA00025261 Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Criminal Defense and White•Collar Associate Director of IP or Patent Counsel Associate - Chemical Varghese & Associates, P.C. Seattle Genetics New York. New York Bothell. 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