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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Bridgegate lb Reach High Court In McDonnell's Shadow Date: "Cue, 14 Jan 2020 08:27:22 +0000 ;law360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, January 14, 2020 G Follow Law360 TOP NEWS `''.,Law360 Pro Say Podcast Analysis Bridgegate To Reach High Court In McDonnell's Shadow The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will explore the line where political mischief turns criminal in the wake of its landmark McDonnell decision, with justices examining whether prosecutors in the so-called Bridgegate case overreached in applying federal statutes to a scheme to realign lanes on the George Washington Bridge. Read full article » Ex-FinCEN Staffer Cops To BuzzFeed Russia Probe Leaks A former senior adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Monday admitted to revealing banks' Listen to our new podcast here suspicious activity reports related to a probe of Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election to a journalist. LAW FIRMS Read full article » Aidala Bertuna Feds Dispute Ariad Insider Suspect's 'Wrong Man' Theory Atrium LLP Federal prosecutors asked a Manhattan jury Monday to rely on what they call Baker Donelson "overwhelming" circumstantial evidence to convict an entrepreneur of leaking Bona Law PC secrets about his father's pharmaceutical company to a trader friend, pushing Bonsignore Trial Lawyers back against a defense theory that another suspect is the tipper. Brafman & Associates Read full article » Butler Snow LLP Jury Hears Of Ex-Barbados Official's Purported Corruption Cadwalader Wickersham Jurors on Monday heard of "lies, corruption and greed" as the trial began for Cleary Gottlieb a former Barbados government official accused of laundering money from Cloth Fair Chambers bribes he took while steering state contracts to an insurance company. Dechert Read full article » Donnelly Conroy Startup's CEO Stole Investor Cash For Maserati, Jury Told Fick & Marx Federal prosecutors kicked off the money laundering trial of Sanovas Inc. Fishman Haygood CEO Lawrence Gerrans on Monday, telling a San Francisco jury that the Greenberg Traurig medical device startup executive embezzled nearly $3 million from investors Hogan Lovells — money he spent on a mansion, a Maserati and a $50,000 diamond ring. Javerbaum Wurgaft Read full article » Kasowitz Benson Weinstein Judge Threatens Jail For Jurors' Social Media Posts Keker Van Nest & Peters A Manhattan state court judge presiding over the rape trial of Harvey Kemp Jones Weinstein warned prospective jurors — including supermodel Gigi Hadid — King & Spalding not to post on social media about their experience, threatening possible jail Kirkland & Ellis time for anyone violating a court order against it. Lewis Baach EFTA00032549 Read full article » Linklaters SECURITIES Lucas Magazine Mayer Brown Asset Manager Pleads Guilty In $164M Pump-And-Dump Scam McGuireWoods The accused mastermind of a $164 million international pump-and-dump Milton Laurence stock scheme pled guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud in Boston federal court Monday. Miner Orkand Read full article » Morgan Lewis Morrison & Foerster Ex-Deutsche Trader Says DOJ Outsourced Spoofing Probe Mukasey Frenchman A former trader at Deutsche Bank is seeking to convince an Illinois federal Nutter McClennen judge that prosecutors outsourced their investigation into spoofing to the bank and its counsel at Linklaters, Cadwalader and Kirkland, raising the O'Melveny & Myers same constitutional rights issue as in U.S. v. Connolly. Orrick 6 documents attached I Read full article » Outten & Golden Paul Weiss FDA Slams Theranos Execs"Unprecedented' Doc Bid Pierce Bainbridge A U.S. Food and Drug Administration attorney on Monday criticized demands Proskauer Rose by former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and another executive for QEB Hollis Whiteman internal documents to help them prepare their criminal defense against fraud charges, saying the scope of the requests are "wholly unprecedented" and Reed Smith diverting the agency's valuable resources. Riemer & Braunstein Read full article » Robinson Bradshaw Ropes & Gray BANK FRAUD Saul Ewing Saveri & Saveri Qatar Move To Steer Biz To Barclays There 'In Black & White' Shaheen & Gordon There is clear evidence that Qatar tried to steer business toward Barclays after it struck a controversial side deal with the country that prosecutors Sideman & Bancroft allege was used to hide payments linked to emergency fundraising, a former Skadden bank executive told a jury on Monday. Steptoe & Johnson LLP Read full article » Sullivan & Cromwell 'Cocaine Cowboy' Can't Kick Conviction For Car Fraud Three Raymond Buildings Former drug trafficker Michael "Mickey" Munday couldn't shake his fraud Todd & Weld conviction and 12-year prison sentence after the Eleventh Circuit upheld a Watkins & Eager Florida federal court's ruling over a $1.7 million vehicle "title-washing" White & Case scheme Monday. Wilkinson Walsh Opinion attached I Read full article » Williams & Connolly WilmerHale Banks Call TelexFree Suit Revision A Waste of Time Zeichner Ellman A slew of financial services providers including Wells Fargo, Bank of America, TD Bank and PwC pushed back Friday in Massachusetts federal court COMPANIES against an attempt to revise allegations linking them to the TelexFree Ponzi scheme, arguing the repeat bids for revision are wasting the court's time. American Bankers Association 1 document attached I Read full article » American Bar Association Andreessen Horowitz LLC LEGAL ETHICS BNP Paribas SA Bank of America Corp. Pierce Bainbridge Says Ex-Partner's Suit Must Be Arbitrated BuzzFeed Inc. Pierce Bainbridge has told a New York state court that a contentious Centerview Partners LLC defamation suit by a former partner belongs in arbitration, saying that the Clearspire partner signed an arbitration agreement when he was hired. Read full article » DISH Network LLC Deutsche Bank AG HEALTH Deutsche Telekom AG Facebook Inc. Ex-Insys Exec Gets Nearly 3 Years For Opioid Kickbacks International Payout Systems Inc. EFTA00032550 A former Insys Therapeutics Inc. executive was sentenced to 33 months in Law Foundation of Silicon Valley prison for his role in an opioid kickback scheme after a Massachusetts Linkedln Corp. federal judge heard emotional testimony Monday from patients who said their Maserati North America Inc. lives had been ruined by the drug. Read full article » Oxford University Press Ltd. Insys Judge Wonders If Potential Punishment Is Too Harsh PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. The Massachusetts federal judge overseeing the case of seven former Insys Therapeutics Inc. executives convicted in an opioid kickback scheme said ProPay Inc. Monday that the lengthy sentencing guidelines and the government's $306 Sprint Nextel Corporation million dollar restitution ask may be too severe for the conduct at issue. T-Mobile US Inc. Read full article » TelexFree LLC The New York Times Co. COMPETITION Toronto-Dominion Bank Justices Skip Case Over 'Per Se' Rule In Antitrust Convictions Wells Fargo & Co. The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review criminal antitrust ZTE Corp. convictions handed down against three California residents for bid-rigging, despite arguments from criminal justice nonprofits that the way federal GOVERNMENT AGENCIES prosecutors went after the violations is unconstitutional. California Labor and Workforce Read full article » Development Agency Centers for Medicare & Medicaid EXPERT ANALYSIS Services European Central Bank FinCEN's Most Lethal AML Weapon Against Foreign Banks Federal Bureau of Investigation As the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network plans to increase its use Financial Crimes Enforcement of so-called special measures under the USA Patriot Act, it is a good bet Network FinCEN will focus its efforts to exile foreign banks it believes pose a money laundering threat to the U.S. financial system, says Arthur Middlemiss at Food and Drug Administration Lewis Baach. Port Authority of New York & New Read full article » Jersey Securities and Exchange Series Commission Judging A Book: Dyk Reviews 'Democracy And Equality' Serious Fraud Office In their new book "Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional U.S. Attorney's Office Vision of the Warren Court," Geoffrey Stone and David Strauss provide valuable context for U.S. Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice Earl U.S. Court of Appeals for the Warren that have profoundly affected the country, but their overly protective Eleventh Circuit attitude sometimes obscures reality, says Federal Circuit Judge Timothy Dyk. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Read full article » Federal Circuit U.S. Department of Justice LEGAL INDUSTRY U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. District Court for the District of 'NewLaw' Firm Atrium Lays Off Attorneys And Staff Massachusetts Venture capital-backed legal technology company and corporate law firm U.S. District Court for the Eastern Atrium has reportedly laid off a number of attorneys and staff just over two District of New York years after its splashy entrance into the legal market and less than a year U.S. District Court for the Northern after one of its co-founders left the company. District of California Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Firm Leaders Expect Sluggish Growth, Worsening Economy U.S. District Court for the Southern Law firm managers scanning the horizon in early 2020 have an increasingly District of Mississippi pessimistic outlook on both firm performance and the economy, according to U.S. District Court for the Southern a new report, with firm leaders' confidence in the U.S. economy dipping District of New York below neutral for the first time in over three years. Read full article » U.S. Supreme Court Ex-Kasowitz Atty Says He Was Victim Of Racial, Gay Bias A former partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP is suing the firm in California court, alleging he faced discrimination because he's black and gay before EFTA00032551 being suddenly fired. Read full article » Ex-Facebook GC Approved To Monitor Sprint/T-Mobile Merger A D.C. federal judge overseeing the government's settlement allowing T- Mobile to buy Sprint has approved the appointment of former Facebook general counsel Theodore W. Ullyot to monitor compliance with the $56 billion deal should it get greenlighted by the court. Read full article » Ex-King & Spalding Atty Asks To Exclude News Articles A former King & Spalding LLP associate who says he was fired for raising ethical red flags at the firm asked a New York court Friday to revisit the issue of allowing trial testimony about news coverage of his fee fight with a former counsel and a related court decision. Read full article » Harvard Law Prof Lessig Sues NYT For 'Clickbait Defamation' Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig launched what he called a "clickbait defamation" action against The New York Times on Monday in Massachusetts federal court, claiming an article in the newspaper falsely implied he defended the notion of taking charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein. Read full article » Receiver Says Baker Donelson Must Face Timber Scam Suit A court-appointed receiver for a timber mill business in Mississippi embroiled in Ponzi scheme allegations is defending her suit against Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, contending she can sue the firm now because she also represents the business' investors. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Peet's Coffee's General Counsel For general counsel Kristin Ashurst, one of the most exciting aspects of the new year is Peet's Coffee's growing e-commerce channel. 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