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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: Ex-Katten Atty Gets 18 Months In Prison For Shkreli Fraud Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:57:59 +0000 ;),Law360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, August 20, 2018 Law360 TOP NEWS I;;;Law360 Pro Say Podcast Ex-Katten Atty Gets 18 Months In Prison For Shkreli Fraud Former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney Evan Greebel on Friday was sentenced to 18 months in prison over allegations that he aided now- imprisoned former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli in defrauding Retrophin Inc. Read full article » Prenda 'Porn Troll' Atty Pleads Guilty To Fraud Charges A former attorney who filed thousands of copyright suits over pornography in an elaborate scheme known as Prenda Law reached an agreement Friday to plead guilty to federal fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Manafort Judge Talks Threats In Not Releasing Jurors' Names The Virginia federal judge overseeing the Paul Manafort trial on Friday LAW FIRMS revealed he has received threats during the case and expressed concern that revealing the names of jurors deliberating the fate of the former Trump Allen & Overy campaign chair could put their "peace and safety" at risk. Read full article » Anderson Kill Baker Donelson Mueller Wants Up To 6 Months In Prison For Ex-Trump Aide Bartlit Beck Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday recommended a prison sentence Boies Schiller of zero to six months for the former Trump adviser who pled guilty to lying to investigators about his interactions with individuals alleged to have ties to the Butler Rubin Russian government during his time working for the campaign. Read full Chaffetz Lindsey article » Cleary Gottlieb Cohen Milstein Feds Fire Back At Sheldon Silver's Post-Conviction Bail Bid Federal prosecutors on Thursday rejected as "baseless" a request by Cohen Seglias Sheldon Silver to stay free while appealing his conviction and seven-year Cooley sentence for political corruption, telling a Manhattan federal judge that the Coots Henke jury that convicted the former New York Assembly speaker had clear DLA Piper instructions. Read full article » Epstein Becker Green 11th Circ. Affirms Sentence For Disability Group's Ex-CEO Fish & Richardson An Eleventh Circuit panel on Friday backed a five-year prison sentence given Fox Rothschild to the former chief executive of a Florida organization that operated programs Gibson Dunn for the developmentally disabled who had been convicted of scheming to Greenberg Traurig divert clients' Social Security benefits. Read full article » Hinshaw & Culbertson SECURITIES Hogan Lovells Hughes Hubbard 2nd Circ. Won't Revive Madoff 'Feeder Fund' Class Action Jomarron Lopez Katten Muchin EFTA00032642 A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit rejected an effort by investors in Kirkland & Ellis two so-called feeder funds that were linked to Bernie Madoff's fraudulent Kleinbard LLC investment scheme to revive their class action against the funds' managers, Kline & Specter auditors, consultant and administrator, ruling Friday that a lower judge was right to dismiss the case. Read full article » Kobre & Kim US Takes Ex-HSBC Trader's Extradition Win To Top UK Court Lackey Hershman The U.S. is appealing the denial of extradition of a former HSBC foreign Latham & Watkins exchange trader to the U.K.'s highest court, prosecutors said Thursday, to Littler Mendelson face charges in New York alleging he and a colleague defrauded bank client Mayer Brown Cairn Energy PLC by trading ahead of a $3.5 billion forex deal for the Scottish oil and gas developer. Read full article » Meyer Darragh Mintz Levin Dutch National Gets 17 Years For $2.5M Investment Schemes Morgan Lewis An Illinois federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Dutch national to 17 years Nelson Mullins in prison in an international criminal fraud case that saw the man cop to Paul Hastings procuring more than S2.5 million through fake investment schemes between 1998 and 2010. Read full article » Proskauer Rose Quinn Buseck Ex-Constellation CEO Says He Is Victim In Stock Fraud Suit Quinn Emanuel The ex-CEO of bankrupt Constellation Healthcare Technologies Inc. Reed Smith Thursday asked a New Jersey federal court to dismiss claims he engaged in securities fraud, alleging he is the victim of an investor's takeover scheme. Robins Kaplan Read full article » Saul Ewing Selendy & Gay LEGAL ETHICS Senniger Powers Sidley Austin Fraudster's Ex-Wife Gets Email Hunt Paused In Atty Tryst Suit Skadden An Indiana federal court on Friday temporarily paused discovery for emails sent by the ex-wife of an incarcerated hedge fund manager in his suit Stinson Leonard claiming that his attorney had an affair with his wife while representing him in Stradley Ronon his criminal case, but refused to halt discovery all together. Read full article » Vladeck Raskin Analysis Weitz & Luxenberg Despite Abuse Horrors, Attys Feel Duty To Defend The Church White and Williams Despite horrific details in a recently unveiled grand jury report about sexual Williams & Connolly abuse suffered by more than a thousand victims at the hands of Catholic Willkie Farr clergy in Pennsylvania, attomeys who have represented the church say that WilmerHale public scorn hasn't swayed them from their duty to provide a vigorous defense. Read full article » COMPANIES SPORTS Adidas AG Airbnb Inc. Analysis American Civil Liberties Union NCAA Reforms Fail To Fix Basketball's Corruption Problem Apple Inc. The NCAA recently enacted a set of sweeping reforms that provide modest Archdiocese of Washington benefits to the small percentage of student-athletes who pursue a professional basketball career, but experts say the changes do not Bank of America Corporation adequately address the serious issues at the center of a federal corruption CBOE Holdings Inc. probe into college basketball. Read full article » Caim Energy PLC Consumer Federation of America EXPERT ANALYSIS Democratie National Committee Extra Protection For Press In Law Enforcement Investigations Electronic Frontier Foundation When the FBI seized a New York Times joumalist's phone and email records Epic Systems Corp. earlier this year, the press was outraged. The authority to seize documents Facebook from a reporter has a higher threshold of approval than for normal Google Inc. investigations, and the failure to follow those requirements has a unique HSBC Holdings PLC statutory remedy, say Thomas Barnard and Macy Climo of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC. Read full article » Kelly Services, Inc. London Stock Exchange Group Series PLC EFTA00032643 Judging A Book: Lipez Reviews 'Last Great Colonial Lawyer' Microsoft Corporation In his new book, "The Last Great Colonial Lawyer: The Life and Legacy of Monsanto Co. Jeremiah Gridley," Charles McKirdy argues that Gridley — someone I had NBCUniversal Inc. never heard of — was the last great colonial lawyer, and that his cases National Basketball Association illuminate his times. The author largely substantiates both claims, says First Circuit Judge Kermit Lipez. Read full article » National Collegiate Athletic LEGAL INDUSTRY Association New York Times Co. Feature New York University 3rd Circ. Oral Argument Dip Troubling, Chief Judge Says PayPal Inc. The Third Circuit appellate bar is trying to reverse a troubling decline in oral PricewaterhouseCoopers arguments before its panels, which its Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith in an exclusive interview with Law360 says could have been brought on by a Quicken Loans Inc. "stunning" increase in pro se filings he traces to the Great Recession of the Retrophin Inc. late aughts. Read full article » Robert Half International Inc. State Bar of California Quinn Emanuel Says Ex-Partners Can't Duck Fee Arbitration The American Law Institute Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP reiterated on Thursday in New York court that its former partners who launched Selendy & Gay PLLC cannot The City University of New York escape arbitrating a dispute over a clause in their partnership agreement The ERISA Industry Committee requiring them to remit fees earned from clients they took to their new firm. Turing Pharmaceuticals AG Read full article » USA Basketball Feature Villanova University 3 Reasons Attys Should Learn A Foreign Language WeWork LLC Becoming fluent in a foreign language may seem daunting, but the challenge Yahoo! Inc. can offer big rewards, including career opportunities and personal satisfaction, for attorneys willing to take it on. Here, Law360 looks at three GOVERNMENT AGENCIES reasons why lawyers should learn languages other than their own. Read full Federal Bureau of Investigation article » Food and Drug Administration Stinson Leonard Grows In St. Louis With IP Boutique Tie-Up Internal Revenue Service Stinson Leonard Street LLP continued its expansion streak Thursday, Judicial Conference of the United announcing plans to acquire 28-strong St. Louis intellectual property boutique States Senniger Powers LLP, following up on two new office openings earlier this Massachusetts Legislature year. Read full article » Securities and Exchange Commission Kavanaugh Will Meet With Top Senate Opponent Social Security Administration U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will come face-to-face with his opposition Monday as he sits down with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., U.S. Attorneys Office the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the lawmaker U.S. Department of Justice leading the fight against his confirmation. Read full article )> U.S. Supreme Court Ex-Clerk Says NY Courts Protected Judge Who Harassed Her A former law clerk has accused the New York state judicial system of covering up for a judge who she says sexually harassed her, allegations she made in a suit filed in federal court against the jurist and 16 other judges, administrators and attorneys. Read full article » Feature GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week The Sixth Circuit ruled the Fair Labor Standards Act doesn't on its own thwart arbitration agreements, consumer groups fought back against industry attempts to amend a hastily enacted landmark privacy law in California and British police warned of an increase in cryptocurrency fraud. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read full article » In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 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 EFTA00032644 full article » Podcast Law360's Pro Say: Disabled Attys Fight For A Place In BigLaw The legal profession can be a lonely place for attorneys with disabilities. They are often overlooked in diversity discussions, and may feel pressure to downplay their disability out of fear of facing bias and stigma. 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