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Ex-FDIC Staffer Found Guilty Of Stealing Banks' Living Wills
A former senior employee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was
convicted by a Brooklyn federal jury on Tuesday of stealing banks'
confidential regulatory filings known as "living wills" that the government
claims she copied so she could prepare for job interviews. Read full article »
Ex-SUNY Prez Gets 3.5 Years For 'Buffalo Billion' Bid-Rigging
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni hit former State University
of New York Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros with three and a
half years in prison Tuesday for rigging bids, but allowed the nuclear scientist
credited with a revitalization of the upstate school to stay free while he
appeals. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here
Ex-Bloomberg, Turner Execs Charged In $15M Bribery Case
LAW FIRMS
Former Bloomberg LP and Turner Construction executives helped steal $15
million from the media giant by rigging bids and handling bribes — Best & Flanagan
sometimes code-named "sandwiches" — linked to interior construction work Bredhoff & Kaiser
at two Bloomberg offices, Manhattan's district attorney alleged Tuesday. Coots Henke
Read full article »
Crowell & Moring
Ex-Deutsche Traders Fight Convictions, Cite Gov't Misconduct Davis Wright Tremaine
Two former traders at Deutsche Bank on Monday urged Manhattan's chief Duane Morris
federal judge to reverse their convictions for rigging the London Interbank Epstein Becker Green
Offered Rate and dismiss the charges against them, arguing that prosecutors Harder LLP
lied and hid evidence throughout the case. Read full article »
Jenner & Block
Hearing Set To Determine If Manafort Lied Levine Lee
A D.C. federal judge Tuesday tentatively scheduled a hearing for Jan. 25 to McGuireWoods
determine whether Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying to Munger Tolles
special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Read full article )> Paul Hastings
MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William A. Burck Paul Weiss
William A. Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP found himself in Peckar & Abramson
the eye of the hurricane surrounding the production of documents in the Quinn Emanuel
contentious confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this Ropes & Gray
year, making him one of Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs. Read full article
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
COMPANIES
SECURITIES
A.P. Moller-Maersk
Minn. Biz Co-Founder Gets 12 Years For $30M Stock Fraud Aeroflex Holding Corp.
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A Minnesota federal judge sentenced a company co-founder to 12 years in BPM LLP
prison Tuesday for his role in a $30 million stock manipulation scheme Bloomberg
involving everything from a defunct tanning salon and his personal polo
Cable News Network Inc.
coach to his and his business partner's fathers posing as the company's
board. Read full article » Consumer Watchdog
Fraudster's Ex-Wife Must Share Emails In Atty Tryst Case Deutsche Bank AG
An Indiana court has ruled that the ex-wife of a convicted hedge fund Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
manager, who claims that she and his defense attorney were having an affair Huawei Technologies
while the attorney was representing him, must turn over all communications
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
she had with the attorney from the time he began representing her ex-
husband until the time the two got married. Read full article » Judicial Watch Inc.
LM Ericsson Telephone Company
PUBLIC INTEGRITY LPCiminelli Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
House Azerbaijan Trip Organizer Pleads Guilty In Ethics Probe
New York Times Co.
An investigation into funding for a 2013 U.S. House of Representatives junket
to Azerbaijan has ended with a guilty plea in D.C. federal court that will result Northern Trust Corporation
in six to 12 months in prison for the trip organizer, a former president of a Penske Media Corp.
nonprofit formed to promote understanding between the U.S. and Turkish Robert Half International Inc.
peoples. Read full article » Sanderson Farms, Inc.
SANCTIONS The Bank of New York Mellon
Corp.
Huawei Exec Granted Bail By Canadian Judge The New York City School
Construction Authority
A Canadian judge granted bail on Tuesday to a top Huawei Technologies Co.
executive facing extradition to the United States, the telecommunications The State University of New York
giant announced. Read full article » Twitter Inc.
U.S. Legal Support Inc.
LEGAL ETHICS
Washington Post Co.
YouTube Inc.
Cape-Wearing Chicago Atty Offers No Excuse For Client Theft
A former Chicago personal injury lawyer known for dressing up in a cape and ZTE Corp.
mask for a superhero persona known as "ExcuseMan" pled guilty Monday in
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
a Chicago court to stealing his clients' settlements. Read full article »
European Union
HEALTH Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Pa. Health Network To Pay $12.5M For Alleged Overbilling Federal Reserve System
Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced on Tuesday that they'd
Federal Trade Commission
inked a $12.5 million settlement with a Lehigh Valley health care network and
its CEO over alleged false Medicare and Medicaid claims for orthopedic Financial Conduct Authority
surgeries. Read full article » Internal Revenue Service
New Jersey Attorney General's
IMMIGRATION Office
New York State Police
NC Atty Charged With Aiding Client's Immigration Fraud
Office of Foreign Assets Control
A North Carolina immigration attorney has been accused of helping an
Securities and Exchange
unauthorized immigrant use a U.S. citizen's identity to apply for Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals status, the U.S. Department of Justice Commission
announced Monday. Read full article » U.S. Attorney's Office
U.S. Department of Defense
Media Errors Hurt Political Chances, Ex-Sheriff Arpaio Says U.S. Department of Justice
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio hit CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone and U.S. Department of the Treasury
several reporters with a $300.5 million defamation lawsuit in D.C. federal
court Monday, claiming that misreporting related to his since-pardoned U.S. House of Representatives
misdemeanor conviction for criminal contempt has hurt his reputation and U.S. Senate
political chances. Read full article » U.S. Supreme Court
United Nations
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
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Contractor Admits Role In Sending Unqualified Guards To IRS
A manager for a company that provided armed guards to the IRS has pled
guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government in a scheme involving the
falsification of firearm shooting scores, prosecutors said Monday. Read full
article »
TAX
Accountant Seeks No Prison Time For $18M Tax Return Fraud
An accountant found guilty of helping a venture capitalist siphon $18 million
from a fund through false tax returns has told a California federal court he
should serve no time behind bars despite prosecutors' request for a
"significant" prison sentence. Read full article »
EXPERT ANALYSIS
A Review Of US Economic Sanctions In 2018
In 2018, the U.S. government strengthened sanctions targeting Iran, Russia
and Venezuela, sanctioned an agency of the Chinese government and
completed the second largest sanctions-related enforcement action on
record. And the evidence suggests 2019 will be equally tumultuous, say
attorneys with Ropes & Gray LLP. Read full article »
Opening Comments: A Key Strategic Decision In Mediation
Opening comments by parties in mediation that are made with the proper
content and tone can diffuse pent-up emotion and pave the way for a
successful resolution. But an opening presentation can do more harm than
good if delivered the wrong way, say Jann Johnson and William Haddad of
ADR Systems LLC. Read full article »
LEGAL INDUSTRY
US Legal Industry Saw Best Growth In Nearly 10 Years
This year has been the U.S. legal industry's best for growth in nearly 10
years, with firms at the large and small ends of the scale reaping the vast
share of the rewards, according to a report released Tuesday. Read full
article »
Legal Hiring Poised For Boom In 2019
Nearly half of U.S. lawyers in charge of hiring say their law firm or corporate
legal department is poised to expand in the next six months, with the majority
predicting that litigation will be the biggest driver of that growth, according to
the results of a survey released Tuesday. Read full article »
Microsoft Singles Out Davis Wright For Diversity Efforts
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday recognized Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as the
top-performing law firm participating in its diversity program, as the
technology company celebrates the 10th anniversary of its effort to address
diversity issues in the legal industry. Read full article »
Senate OKs Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Despite Flake Opposition
The U.S. Senate relied on Vice President Mike Pence for the first time to
confirm one of President Donald Trump's appeals court judges, as he cast
the tie-breaking vote for Eighth Circuit nominee Jonathan Kobes over the
objections of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Read full article »
California's Harris To Keep Senate Judiciary Seat
California is set to have both of its senators on the Senate Judiciary
Committee next year, as a leadership deal allowed potential presidential
candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to keep her spot on the panel. Read
full article »
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Court Reporting Co. Must Follow Calif. Regs
A California state appeals court refused Friday to revive a court reporter's
unfair competition suit against major court-reporting firm U.S. Legal Support
Inc., but held that a lower court incorrectly absolved the company of the
obligation to comply with California regulations for licensed professionals.
Read full article »
Stormy Daniels Owes Trump Attys $300K In Fees, Sanctions
Stormy Daniels must pay President Donald Trump's attorneys approximately
$300,000 in fees, costs and sanctions, which was less than half of what they
originally sought, a California federal judge ordered Tuesday following the
dismissal of the adult film star's defamation suit against the president. Read
full article »
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