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From: White Collar Law360 <news®law360.com> To: < a Subject: Convicted Hedge Fund Exec Claims SDNY Hid Evidence Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2020 07:43:50 +0000 isrlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Wednesday, July 8, 2020 ;Follow Law360 TOP NEWS ; t2,Law360 Practice Groups of the Convicted Hedge Fund Exec Claims SDNY Hid Evidence Year Convicted Former Premium Point Investments CEO Anilesh Ahuja says that a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York drafted a cooperators guilty plea and then told a judge he didn't — a fact Ahuja claims casts doubt on the fairness of his trial. Letter attached I Read full article » Deutsche Bank Fined $150M For Epstein, Partner Bank Lapses New York state's financial regulator said Tuesday it fined Deutsche Bank $150 million for failing to appropriately manage its dealings with alleged bad actors including millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in federal custody. 1 document attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS Analysis Barnes & Thornburg Molotov Cases Prosecuted Like Terrorism In All But Name Bird Marella Brooklyn federal prosecutors have stopped just short of invoking the legally Bruce S. Rogow PA and politically fraught term "terrorism" against the defendants, including a now-suspended Pryor Cashman associate, in alleged Molotov cocktail Conrad & Scherer attacks on NYPD vehicles. Crowell & Moring Read full article » Duane Morris Faegre Drinker Gov't Ties Ex-Panama President's Sons To Odebrecht Scheme Ghidotti Berger New York federal prosecutors have charged two sons of former Panamanian Gibson Dunn President Ricardo Martinelli over their alleged roles in a massive bribery and Hughes Hubbard money laundering scheme tied to Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht SA. Jackson Lewis Complaint attached I Read full article » Jomarron Lopez Kang Haggerty Alleged Accomplices To Ghosn Escape Can't Nix US Arrests Kasowitz Benson A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday shot down a bid to invalidate the arrests of a Green Beret and his son who face extradition to Japan for Kozyak Tropin allegedly helping Carlos Ghosn escape the country while on bail over Kramon & Graham criminal financial misconduct charges. Labaton Sucharow 2 documents attached I Read full article » Lieff Cabraser Marino Finley NYC Grand Juries To Return To State Courthouses In August Matthews Shiels Grand juries will begin to reconvene in New York City state courts starting on Aug. 10, and some criminal matters that have been heard remotely since the Mayer Brown beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic may soon be heard in person, the New McDonald Hopkins York State Unified Court System announced Tuesday. Morgan Lewis EFTA00026428 Read full article » Paul Weiss COMPLIANCE Perlman Bajandas Pierce Bainbridge FinCEN Warns Banks About COVID-19-Related Scams Pryor Cashman The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned financial institutions Scott H. Palmer PC Tuesday about two forms of consumer fraud that have proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing an advisory with tips for detecting impostor Seyfarth Shaw scams and money mule schemes. Spertus Landes 1 document attached I Read full article » Summit Law Group Thornton Law Firm LLP FTC Targets Belizean Executive In Real Estate Scam Suit Tripp Scott The Federal Trade Commission has urged a Maryland federal judge to hold a Venable LLP Belizean man liable for more than $138 million in an alleged Belize real estate scam, accusing him of trying to escape his part in running a fraudulent Walden Macht operation that deceived American consumers. Weissberg and Associates Ltd Motion attached I Read full article » Willkie Farr Winston & Strawn SECURITIES COMPANIES Ex-LA Broker Gets 6 Years For $215M Portfolio Pumping Fraud Abbott A former Beverly Hills stockbroker was sentenced on Monday to 72 months American Bar Association in prison after being convicted last year of participating in a stock price BARBRI manipulation scheme that pumped up the reported profits of hedge funds and BNP Paribas SA caused investors to lose $215 million. Braskem SA Read full article » Center for Justice Ex-JPMorgan Trader Can't Ditch Forex-Rigging Conviction Citigroup Inc. A former JPMorgan trader's conviction for scheming with the competition to Democratic National Committee fix prices in the foreign currency market remains intact after a Manhattan Deutsche Bank AG federal judge said the evidence at trial was more than enough to support the Dropbox Inc. verdict. Opinion attached I Read full article » Facebook Inc. Federation Internationale de Football Association SEC Settles With Rabbi For Bilking Jewish Investors Of $10M The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced a Forever 21 judgment against Rabbi Zvi Feiner and his two companies for allegedly Fox Corp. conning at least 62 investors in Chicago's Orthodox Jewish community out of Google Inc. more than $10 million, including $1 million from an 86-year-old Holocaust LexisNexis Group survivor. Linkedln Corp. Decision attached I Read full article » Microsoft Corp. CYBERSECURITY Mylan NV Odebrecht SA Alsup Slams Feds"Stunts' In Trial Of Alleged Russian Hacker State Street Corp. U.S. District Judge William Alsup criticized a prosecutor Tuesday for StubHub Inc. presenting "obviously prejudicial" jailhouse phone records instead of "real TrueCar Inc. evidence" against a Russian national on trial in California for allegedly Twitter Inc. hacking into Linkedln and Dropbox, saying, "You may end up losing this case because of stunts like that." Virage Capital Management LP Read full article » ViroPharma Incorporated Washington Post Co. EBay Cyberstalking Case Expands As Feds Charge Ex-Cop eBay Inc. Federal prosecutors in Boston said Tuesday they have charged a seventh former eBay employee, a retired cop who worked security for the company, in GOVERNMENT AGENCIES connection with an alleged cyberstalking campaign against a Massachusetts Centers for Disease Control and couple who ran an e-commerce industry blog. Prevention 1 document attached I Read full article » Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Trade Commission EFTA00026429 Microsoft Sues To Block 'COVID-19 Themed' Phishing Scheme Financial Crimes Enforcement A Virginia court has unsealed documents related to Microsoft's recent efforts Network to prevent alleged cybercriminals from stealing its users' personal information Internal Revenue Service through a "COVID-19 themed" phishing campaign, the company said. National Economic Council 2 documents attached I Read full article » New York Attorney General's Office New York Police Department LEGAL ETHICS New York State Unified Court System 5th Circ. Clears Texas Gov. From Ex-Judge's Retaliation Suit Small Business Administration The Fifth Circuit ruled Monday that a group of former Texas prosecutors — including Gov. Greg Abbott — are shielded by prosecutorial immunity from a Texas Health and Human Services former state judge's retaliation suit that alleges they investigated, charged Commission and convicted her on bogus bribery charges, but held that one county U.S. Attorneys Office prosecutor is not protected. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Opinion attached I Read full article 0 Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the TAX Second Circuit U.S. Department of Housing and Solar Schemers Threatened With Jail For Defying Court Urban Development Owners of a solar company found to have perpetrated an abusive $50 million U.S. Department of Justice tax fraud were threatened with jail time by a Utah federal judge because U.S. Department of the Treasury they've repeatedly flouted contempt-of-court orders, destroyed evidence and U.S. District Court for the Central deceived the federal government. District of California Order attached I Read full article » U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland COMPETITION U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts FTC Fights Shkreli's Bid To Duck Monopolization Case U.S. District Court for the District of The Federal Trade Commission and a contingent of states have urged a New Minnesota York federal court not to toss their suit accusing former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and a company he founded of monopolizing the U.S. District Court for the Eastern market for a lifesaving drug used to treat parasitic infections. District of New York 3 documents attached I Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia SPORTS & BETTING U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Ex-Fox Execs Want Separate Trial In FIFA Bribery Case U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois A pair of former Fox Sports executives accused of bribing South American soccer officials have urged a New York federal judge to try them separately U.S. District Court for the Southern from other defendants in the sprawling FIFA corruption case, arguing that District of New York prosecutors had hastily and incorrectly "lumped them in" with a host of U.S. Securities and Exchange unrelated defendants. Commission &lotion attached I Read full article » U.S. Sentencing Commission U.S. Supreme Court EXPERT ANALYSIS United States District Court for the District of Utah Are Your Slack Communications Primed For E-Discovery? World Health Organization With the increasing use of channel-based platforms such as Slack, Messenger and Teams in the work-from-home era, companies should assume they may be compelled to produce channel-based data in litigation and take proactive steps to protect sensitive information, say Jessica Brown and Collin James Vierra at Gibson Dunn. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Chief Justice Hospitalized In June, Supreme Court Confirms EFTA00026430 Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring himself in a fall, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a statement Tuesday, confirming a report in the Washington Post. Read full article » Black Leaders Call Out Diversity 'Excuses' Law Firms Make Despite decades of efforts to create a more equal and inclusive legal profession, more change is urgently needed, a panel of top Black attorneys said on Tuesday, pointing to several "excuses" law firms tend to make when failing to hire and promote Black lawyers. Read full article » Midyear Report: The Biggest Legal Ethics Moments So Far With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the headlines and just about everything else this year, there has still been plenty happening in the world of legal ethics, from the culmination of an unusual probe into a lawyer fee award to a major court setback for New York's new prosecutor watchdog group. Read full article » Oyez! High Court's 1st Female Marshal, Reporter Are Retiring U.S. Supreme Court Marshal Pamela Talkin and Reporter of Decisions Christine Luchok Fallon, the first women to serve in those roles, are retiring this year after nearly 50 years of combined service at the court. Read full article » Hughes Hubbard Lays Off Associates Amid Pandemic Despite claiming a small business loan as part of the federal government's COVID-19 relief efforts, New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP confirmed Tuesday that it had laid off an undisclosed number of associates and staff to weather the pandemic. Read full article » Coronavirus Regulations: A State-By-State Week In Review The uptick in the spread of COVID-19 reenergized an emphasis on face coverings this past week, leading to a public awareness campaign in California and a new law in Texas. And in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf shared World Health Organization research in an effort to get commonwealth citizens to cover up. Read full article » Seyfarth Opens Seattle Office With Labor, Real Estate Focus Seyfarth Shaw LLP on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Seattle office with a focus on real estate and labor law, with the firm saying it decided to move ahead with the planned expansion into the Pacific Northwest despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Read full article » Firm Must Produce Email Allegedly Used To Blackmail Judge A Florida judge ordered Tripp Scott PA on Tuesday to produce an email sent to one of its former attorneys allegedly containing nude photographs of a Palm Beach County judge that the judge says were later used by a prominent Fort Lauderdale attorney to blackmail her. Read full article » Ex-National Economic Council Deputy Joins Mayer Brown Former White House economic adviser Andrew Olmem has returned to Mayer Brown LLP, joining the firm's public policy, regulatory and political law practice after taking part in the development and coordination of U.S. economic policies in various sectors. 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