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From: White Collar Law360 <news(Oaw360.com> To: Subject: Manhattan DA Investigating 'Missing' NYC Real Estate Atty Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:49:35 +0000 Lelaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, April 12, 2021 Law360 TOP NEWS Law360 Manhattan DA Investigating 'Missing' NYC Real Estate Atty The Manhattan District Attorney's Office is investigating a city real estate attorney who has allegedly gone missing along with millions in client funds, a ;,,Law360 Rising Stars source familiar with the probe told Law360. Letter attached I Read full article » Biden Floats $1.8B Boost In Justice Department Funding President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $1.8 billion discretionary funding increase to the U.S. Department of Justice for the next fiscal year, with more money going to civil rights enforcement, immigration courts and state and local criminal justice reforms. Read full article » Gaetz Lawyers Up With Prominent NYC Defense Team Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has retained a pair of top-shelf New York defense attorneys amid a federal sex trafficking investigation. Read full article » LAW FIRMS Alston & Bird Former Netflix Exec Faces Bribery Charges As Trial Kicks Off Arnold & Porter Prosecutors accused a former Netflix executive of illegally receiving Baker Botts kickbacks and stock options from startups in exchange for lucrative contracts Bernstein Litowitz with the streaming giant during opening arguments in a bribery trial in California federal court Friday, while defense counsel argued the deals Bracewell LLP were legitimate and a product of Netflix's "no rules" culture. Bramnick Law Read full article » CMBG3 Law Clayman & Rosenberg House Slams DOJ's 2nd Bid To Delay McGahn Subpoena Case Conn Kavanaugh A top House attorney has rebuked the Biden administration's claim that Crowell & Moring they've made "sufficient progress" toward a settlement that warrants another postponement of oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in House Democrats' D'Agostino Levine long-running bid to compel testimony from former Trump White House DLA Piper counsel Don McGahn. Davis Polk Letter attached I Read full article » Eckert Seamans Epstein Becker Green Ulbricht Floats Theory That 2nd Silk Road Plea Offer Existed Fenwick & West A federal judge on Friday directed the Manhattan U.S. attorneys office to Foley & Lardner check if there was a second plea deal offered to Ross Ulbricht, besides one he famously rejected, after the former Silk Road operator's lawyer cited a Gibson Dunn published report and said it suggests another offer existed. Goodwin Procter Order attached I Read full article Govemo Law Firm EFTA00032691 Judge Mulls Trump Appointee's Jail Release Bid In Riot Case Greenberg Traurig A D.C. federal judge seemed hesitant Friday to continue detaining a former Griesing Law Trump U.S. Department of State appointee seeking release from jail pending Hawkins Pamell his trial on charges for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Haynes & Boone Capitol. Herrick Feinstein 2 documents attached I Read full article » Hinckley Allen Feds Drop Criminal Charges In Alleged Fintech Fraud Scheme Hogan Lovells Federal prosecutors on Friday sought to drop wire fraud and securities fraud Jackson Lewis P.C. charges against a former financial planner, noting that his alleged co- Jenner & Block conspirator had been pardoned by former President Donald Trump. 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Pierce Bainbridge Read full article » Quinn Emanuel Richards Layton SECURITIES Rimon PC Boat-Buying Ponzi Schemer Admits Luring Investors Robins Kaplan A self-professed venture capitalist from Boston admitted Thursday to duping Rosenberg & Estis investors with promises of easy, no-risk profits as part of a Ponzi-like fraud Salvi Schostok scheme that prosecutors say netted him a powerboat. Schulte Roth Read full article » Sheppard Mullin MONEY LAUNDERING Smith Duggan Stroock & Stroock Fed Asks Banks For Input On AML Risk Models Thompson Hine The Federal Reserve Board and a group of U.S. banking agencies asked the Wiggin and Dana nation's banks on Friday for input on how they use risk models to comply with Wilmer Hale Bank Secrecy Act regulations, including models used to track and report Wilson Sonsini suspicious activities. Wolf Haldenstein 2 documents attached I Read full article » Young Conaway HEALTH COMPANIES Activision Blizzard Inc. Parents Want Wholesaler Sanctioned In Drug Death Suit American Bar Association The parents of a woman who fatally overdosed on an Insys Therapeutics opioid called on a New Jersey federal court Friday to sanction a Apple Inc. pharmaceutical wholesaler for allegedly deleting documents relevant to their Associated Press wrongful-death suit, saying they wasted time and money searching empty Bridgewater Associates LP hard drives. Brookfield Property Partners LP 2 documents attached I Read full article » CS Disco Inc. EXPERT ANALYSIS Cable News Network Inc. EFTA00032692 3 Reasons Securities Fraud Litigation Exposure Fell In Q1 Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Nessim Mezrahi and Stephen Sigrist at SAR analyze data on securities class Network actions filed against public companies in the first quarter of 2021, and explore Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. factors that may have contributed to issuers facing their lowest exposure to Dynex Capital Inc. such claims in years. 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Judge Sandra Feuerstein Killed In Fla. Hit-And-Run NAACP Legal Defense and U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein of the Eastern District of New York Educational Fund Inc. was killed on Friday after being fatally struck by a vehicle in a hit and run National Association for the crash in Florida, authorities said. Advancement of Colored People Read full article » National LGBT Bar Association Netflix Inc. Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Salvi Schostok's Patrick A. Salvi Oracle Corp. Almost 40 years after founding Salvi Schostok & Pritchard PC, and with more than $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements under his firm's belt, trial attorney Pacer International, Inc. Patrick A. Salvi still loves few things more than the chance to argue for his Papa John's International Inc. clients in court. PepsiCo Inc. Read full article » Rochester Drug Cooperative Inc. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Law360's 2021 Legal Industry Editorial Board Spotify Technology SA Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2021 Legal Industry Editorial Advisory Board. State Street Corp. Read full article » The Allstate Corp. The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Bonus Spotlight The New York Times Co. Baker Botts And MoFo Join Special Bonuses Action University of Southern California Morrison & Foerster LLP and Baker Botts LLP are joining the dozens of major U.S. law firms handing out special bonuses this year, according to reports University of Virginia and details Law360 confirmed on Friday. Virage Capital Management LP Read full article » Wells Fargo & Co. Wolters Kluwer Biden Forms Commission To Study Supreme Court 'Reform' XPO Logistics Inc. President Joe Biden on Friday followed through on his plan to form an Yahoo! Inc. outside commission to study possible reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court amid progressive criticism of the court's conservative majority. 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Office of the Comptroller of the Read full article » Currency Gibson Dunn, Recruiter Agree To Arbitrate Hiring Fees Dispute Texas Supreme Court A California judge Friday sent to arbitration Lateral Link Group Inc.'s suit U.S. Attorney's Office claiming Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP cheated it out of its recruiting U.S. Attorney's Office for the commission for the hire of a lateral partner, after the legal recruiting company Eastern District of New York didn't oppose the law firm's motion. U.S. Attorney's Office for the Read full article » Northern District of California U.S. Attorney's Office for the Studio Can't Slip Gay Asst.'s Bias Suit Against Atty's Cos. Southern District of New York A California judge Friday overruled a bid by an attorney's dance studio to U.S. Court of Appeals for the escape a lawsuit brought against the lawyer and her companies by her gay District of Columbia Circuit former legal assistant over claims the attorney's namesake firm didn't pay U.S. Court of Appeals for the him minimum wage, harassed him and wrongfully fired him after he informed Second Circuit a superior he had HIV. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Read full article » Seventh Circuit McCormick Picked As Bouchard's Del. Chancery Successor U.S. Department of Homeland Security Gov. John Carney nominated Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick on Friday to become the first woman to lead Delaware's nationally important U.S. Department of Justice Chancery Court, replacing Chancellor Andre G. 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District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week U.S. District Court for the Northern Experts have urged general counsel to lean into innovation following a survey District of Texas that found significant challenges facing lawyers amid shrinking corporate U.S. District Court for the Southern legal budgets, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decadelong case that District of Florida Google made fair use of Oracle's software. These are some of the stories in U.S. District Court for the Southern corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. 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