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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Cohen Nixes Congressional Hearing Over Trump 'Threats' Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:25:04 +0000 .,1_aw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Thursday, January 24, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS `'',,Law360 Pro Say Podcast Cohen Nixes Congressional Hearing Over Trump 'Threats' Michael Cohen will not appear at a scheduled hearing before a House panel next month in light of "ongoing threats against his family" from President Donald Trump, Cohen's lawyer said Wednesday, casting uncertainty over the longtime Trump attorney's testimony about crimes he committed in dealings with the president. Read full article » Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Team Owners Launch Parole Reform Group Music mogul Jay-Z, rapper Meek Mill, and several professional sports team owners and asset managers on Wednesday launched a $50 million criminal justice reform effort aimed at revamping laws to reduce the number of people on parole or probation. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Ex-Rock Capital Trader Gets 5 Years For False Profits Scheme LAW FIRMS A former Rock Capital Markets LLC trader accused of creating false profits and causing his firm to fold after losing over $13.7 million has been Akin Gump sentenced by an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to five years in prison after Arent Fox pleading guilty to one wire fraud charge last year. Read full article » Brafman & Associates Brownstein Hyatt Manafort Disputes Plea Breach, Ordered To Attend Hearing Buchalter PC Former Donald Trump presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort said Wednesday his faulty memory should not be equated to a plea agreement- Cloth Fair Chambers violating lie as a D.C. federal judge ruled that he must show up for his Friday Covington & Burling hearing rather than let his attorneys handle it. Read full article » DLA Piper Desai Law Firm PC Weinstein Hires Casey Anthony Atty, Harvard Law Professor A week after announcing a split from his former criminal defense lawyer, Dinsmore & Shohl Harvey Weinstein has a new legal team consisting of Jose Baez, who led Epstein Becker Green Casey Anthony's murder trial acquittal, and Harvard Law School professor Essex Court Chambers Ronald S. Sullivan, Baez confirmed Wednesday. Read full article » Farella Braun COMPLIANCE Frost Brown Todd Gibson Dunn Deutsche Bank Facing Global Scrutiny Over Danske Scandal Gupta Wessler Deutsche Bank AG said Wednesday that it has received requests for Hoagland Longo information from law enforcement agencies and regulators across the globe Hogan Lovells looking into an alleged multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme at Danish Holland & Knight lender Danske Bank. Read full article » Irell & Manella SECURITIES Jomarron Lopez K&L Gates Ex-Barclays Execs Accused Of Duping Shareholders At Trial Kasowitz Benson EFTA00032577 Four former Barclays PLC directors deceived the bank's shareholders by Kennedys CMK failing to declare additional fees they paid Qatari investors at the height of the Kennedys Law LLP financial crisis and by using other agreements as a "smokescreen" to cover King & Spalding their tracks, prosecutors told a London jury on Wednesday. Read full article » 'Shell Factory' Atty Sees Sentence Cut For Helping Feds Knobbe Martens An attorney rounded up in the massive prosecution of a group that created Ogletree Deakins fake shell companies in a pump-and-dump scheme had his three-year Parker Bunt sentence trimmed by two years Tuesday because he assisted the Paul Hastings government in taking down his cohorts. Read full article » Quinn Emanuel DC Circ. Judges Criticize Advisory Firm's Ties To Fund Broker Reed Smith Two members of a D.C. Circuit panel on Wednesday derided a Houston- Reid Collins based investment advisory firm that recommended investments without fully Samuel J. Rabin Jr. PA disclosing it was being paid by the broker offering them. Read full article » Sanford Heisler Sharp Snell & Wilmer CYBERSECURITY Squire Patton Boggs House Passes Bill Inviting Researchers To Hack State Dept. Stearns Weaver The U.S. House of Representatives has resoundingly passed a bipartisan bill Steptoe & Johnson LLP that would direct the State Department to invite security researchers to The Hoffinger Firm expose flaws in its digital defenses in exchange for rewards. Read full article Ulmer & Berne Venable LLP LEGAL ETHICS White & Case Williams & Jensen Beverly Hills Atty Accused Of Peddling Pills On Craigslist Winston & Strawn A Beverly Hills attorney who has a "long history" of selling drugs on the internet, including black tar heroin and methadone, was arrested for allegedly COMPANIES selling $1,200 in oxycodone pills on Craigslist, the U.S. Department of Aliph Inc. Justice said. Read full article » American Arbitration Association NJ Atty Accused Of Raping Gov.'s Staffer Won't Face Charges American Bar Association A second prosecutor's office in New Jersey on Wednesday said it will not Apple Inc. pursue criminal charges against an attorney accused of raping a staffer in Attorneys' Liability Assurance Gov. Phil Murphy's administration when they were working on the governor's Society Ltd. campaign, citing "a lack of credible evidence and corroboration that a crime Barclays Investment Bank was committed." Read full article » Barclays PLC HEALTH BlackBerry Ltd. Brooklyn Nets Ex-Hospital Director Pleads Guilty In $1B Health Fraud Case Danske Bank A former Miami-area hospital director pled guilty Wednesday in Florida Deutsche Bank AG federal court to conspiring to defraud the United States and paying and DowDuPont Inc. receiving health care kickbacks as part of a $1 billion health care fraud scheme. Read full article » Ferrari SpA Fitbit Inc. 5 NY Doctors Denounce DOJ Charges Of Insys Kickbacks Fitch Ratings Ltd. Five New York doctors on Tuesday assailed a U.S. Department of Justice Genentech Inc. indictment accusing them of pocketing kickbacks to prescribe a fentanyl Google Inc. painkiller sold by Insys Therapeutics Inc., saying there are no concrete signs of an illicit quid pro quo. Read full article » Home Depot Inc. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. SPORTS Linkedln Corp. Marriott International Inc. Grassley Seeks Answers From USOC After Nassar Report Moody's Corporation Sen. Chuck Grassley has asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to outline the steps it's taking to improve its culture and protect athletes after the release of NAVEX Global Inc. a scathing December report about sexual abuse in the Olympic community, NFL Enterprises LLC the lawmaker said Wednesday. Read full article » NYU Langone Medical Center National Consumer Law Center EXPERT ANALYSIS EFTA00032578 New England Patriots 3 Trends In Criminal Trade Secret Prosecution New York Post While white collar filings are significantly down nationwide, the prosecutorial appetite for bringing criminal trade secret cases appears voracious, even Philadelphia 76ers where no foreign actor or national security concern is involved, say Jessica Promontory Financial Group LLC Nall and Janice Reicher of Farella Braun & Martel LLP. Read full article Ranbaxy S&P Global Inc. DOJ's Wire Act Opinion Is A Game Changer State Bar of Arizona The U.S. Department of Justice's updated guidance on the Wire Act contains a fundamental distinction between civil risk and criminal risk, and this will State Bar of California slow down the proliferation of gambling-related online offerings in the intemet Sun Pharmaceutical gambling community, says Tim Lowry of DLA Piper. Read full article >> Target Corp. Twitter Inc. LEGAL INDUSTRY Uber Technologies Inc. 10 Firms That Made The Most Money Lobbying In 2018 United Microelectronics Ten law firms bested the rest of the sector and raked in millions of dollars in Corporation revenue from federal lobbying clients in 2018, with year-end figures reported United Services Automobile to the government showing strong results across the industry even though it Association was an election year. Read full article >> United States Olympic Committee Voya Financial Inc. GOP Mulling 'Nuclear Option' To Speed Judicial Nominations Wells Fargo & Co. Republicans could again turn to the "nuclear option" to change Senate rules and advance President Donald Trump's nominees, one senator said this Yahoo! Inc. week, cutting down the time the Senate takes on judicial and other nominees. Read full article » GOVERNMENT AGENCIES California Supreme Court Ex-Snell & Wilmer Chair John Bouma Fatally Struck By Cars Commodity Futures Trading John J. Bouma, who led Snell & Wilmer LLP for more than three decades, Commission guiding it from a single Arizona office to a national force, was fatally hit by Drug Enforcement Administration cars Tuesday night, Phoenix police confirm. He was 82. Read full article » European Union Arent Fox Sues Former IP Partner Over Move To Kasowitz Federal Bureau of Investigation Arent Fox LLP filed suit Tuesday in D.C. federal court against a former Federal Reserve System intellectual property partner in its New York office, alleging that he agreed to Federal Trade Commission pay over $90,000 in order to make an immediate exit to Kasowitz Benson Financial Conduct Authority Torres LLP and then failed to pay up. Read full article » Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Bear Stearns Hits Reed Smith With $500M Malpractice Suit Securities and Exchange Reed Smith LLP bungled its representation of two now-defunct Bear Stearns investment funds that had sued ratings agencies for overvaluing residential Commission mortgage-backed securities they bought, the funds claimed in a suit filed Serious Fraud Office Tuesday in New York state court seeking more than half a billion dollars in U.S. Attorneys Office damages. Read full article U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Homeland Gilstrap 'Offended' By Gamesmanship Of Irell, Winston Attys Security U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has said he's "offended" by how Irell & Manella LLP and Winston & Strawn LLP have handled the opening stages of U.S. Department of Justice an infringement case involving USAA electronic check patents asserted U.S. House Committee on Energy against Wells Fargo, finding the firms' legal maneuvers demonstrate a "clear and Commerce lack of respect" for his court. Read full article » U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Feature The Legal Threat Giving Compliance Officers Nightmares U.S. Supreme Court Compliance officers across industries all name the same concern when asked what keeps them up at night. Here, Law360 looks at that issue and what compliance officers can do to mitigate the risk. Read full article >> Ogletree Looks To Gut Ex-Shareholder's Sex Bias Suit Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC wants a California federal court to kick the bulk of a former firm shareholder's gender discrimination lawsuit to EFTA00032579 arbitration, saying she was bound by an arbitration pact even though she didn't sign it. Read full article » Retired Judges Urge Fed. Circ. To Make PACER Free Seven retired federal judges, including ex-Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner, told the Federal Circuit that the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system should be free, according to an amicus brief filed Wednesday in an appeal over a class action challenging the government's fees. Read full article » UK Watchdog Drops GCs From Manager Accountability Plan The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday that it had dropped plans to hold the heads of legal departments at banks and insurance firms responsible for ignoring misconduct, saying the proposed rule would hamper lawyers from giving independent legal advice. Read full article » Interview Law Firm Leaders: Kennedys CMK's Meg Catalano Meg Catalano, managing partner of the U.S. arm of British commercial firm Kennedys Law LLP, spoke to Law360 recently about the ramifications of the transatlantic tie-up, how she balances her practice and managerial duties, and where she sees the business of law evolving. Read full article JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Insurance Coverage Litigation Associate Insurance Coverage Litigation Associate (4-8 yrs) (4-8 yrs) Gordon & Rees Gordon & Rees San Francisco, Oakland. 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