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From: White Collar Law360 <news@law360.com> To: Subject: 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:35:33 +0000 tlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Thursday, June 17, 2021 GiFollow Law360 TOP NEWS ;`',Law360 Rising Stars 2021 Analysis 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption, new anti-money laundering rules looming, and vulnerabilities that were amplified by the pandemic, companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their compliance programs, experts say. Read full article » Robbins Geller Wants To Fight FIFA Suit DQ At 2nd Circ. Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has asked a New York federal judge to give the firm time to appeal his ruling that it committed fraud worthy of disqualification by failing to disclose short positions held by the lead plaintiff in a securities class action stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal, a request the defendant company said comes way too late. LAW FIRMS 2 documents attached I Read full article Aidala Bertuna Akin Gump Greenberg Traurig's NY Bill May Aid Russian Oligarch Client Arent Fox Greenberg Traurig successfully lobbied for a New York state bill that will make it harder to enforce foreign judgments, which could be worth $700 Arnold & Porter million or more to a Vladimir Putin-linked Russian oligarch who is a client of BakerHostetler the firm. The state senator who sponsored the bill had no idea. Ballard Spahr Letter attached I Read full article » Blackstone Chambers Blank Rome Ex-Goldman Exec's Virus-Delayed 1MDB Trial Set For January Bracewell LLP Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng will face trial in January Brafman & Associates over his purported role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, a Cadwalader Wickersham New York federal judge said Tuesday, rescheduling the proceeding after a pandemic-related delay. Clarence Dyer Read full article » Cloth Fair Chambers Clyde & Co ENRC Adviser Regrets Lying In SFO Tipoff About Dechert Atty Cohen & Gresser A former ENRC security consultant testified on Wednesday that he regretted Cohen Milstein lying in an anonymous letter he sent to the Serious Fraud Office accusing a Conrad & Metlitzky Dechert attorney investigating alleged corruption at the Kazakh mining company of colluding with the agency's officials. Constantine Cannon Read full article » Cravath Swaine Crowell & Moring NYC Bar Wants Arrest Question On Bar Application Amended DLA Piper The New York City Bar Association has urged the New York state court Davis Polk system not to ask state bar applicants about their involvement with the Davis Wright Tremaine EFTA00032732 juvenile justice system or criminal cases that were sealed, adjourned or Dechert dismissed. Derek Smith Law Group Read full article » Dinsmore & Shohl Ex-Cognizant Execs Want Cooperator's Bribery Probe Docs Ellsworth Law Firm Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives charged with Erskine Chambers foreign bribery are seeking to force an Indian conglomerate to hand over information that could help clear their names, arguing that a New Jersey Essex Court Chambers federal court has jurisdiction over the conglomerate because it cooperated Faegre Drinker with U.S. investigators. Fine Kaplan Motion attached I Read full article » ForsterBoughman Frankfurt Kurnit Jailed Maxwell Decries 'Raw Sewage,' Nosy Guards Freshfields Ghislaine Maxwell cannot defend herself against child sex-trafficking charges with feces raining down in her cell and federal prison guards listening in on Friedman Kaplan her privileged conversations, one of her attorneys told a Manhattan federal Gateley PLC judge in a letter Tuesday. Gelb & Gelb Letter attached I Read full article » Gibbons PC Girardi & Keese Ex-NASA Chief Gets 30 Days For Hiding Ties To China Goodwin Procter A New York federal judge on Wednesday hesitantly sentenced a NASA Greenberg Traurig nanotechnology pioneer to 30 days in prison for concealing his ties to the Chinese government, pointing out that defendants with lesser bona fides are Haddon Morgan routinely locked up for lying to the government. Hagens Berman 2 documents attached I Read full article » Hogan Lovells Holland & Knight COMPLIANCE Iredale & Yoo Jomarron Lopez Ex-City National VP Says He Was Fired For Tax Whistleblowing Jones Day A former senior vice president for the Royal Bank of Canada's U.S. subsidiary City National Bank sued his ex-employer in California federal King & Siegel court, claiming he was wrongfully fired because he raised concerns about Krieger Kim possible tax fraud and misconduct. Lathrop GPM Complaint attached I Read full article » Law Office of John D. Cline Levene Neale SECURITIES Lowenstein Sandler Margulies Faith Trader Pushes Back Against Witness In Illumina Insider Trial Mayer Brown Counsel for a San Diego stock speculator accused of insider trading worked Wednesday to undermine the credibility of a former Illumina Inc. accountant McDermott Will who told a Manhattan jury she tipped him to earnings secrets in exchange for Milbank LLP envelopes stuffed with cash. Moses & Singer Read full article » Neal R. Sonnett PA Nelson Mullins 6 Members Of $1.7M Tech Insider Trading Ring Get Pinned Norton Rose Three members of an alleged $1.7 million insider trading ring were hit with criminal charges Tuesday, while much of the ring settled claims lobbed by the One Essex Court U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they traded off of material Orrick Herrington nonpublic information on two technology companies. Paul Weiss 4 documents attached I Read full article Perkins Coie Post & Schell PUBLIC INTEGRITY Quinn Emanuel Robbins Geller Former Boston Cop 4th To Admit Stealing OT Pay A retired Boston cop detailed to the department's evidence warehouse Ropes & Gray admitted Wednesday to embezzling more than $36,000 from the city by filing Scharf Banks for overtime hours she never worked, becoming the fourth officer to plead Selendy & Gay guilty in the scheme. Skadden Arps Read full article » Squire Patton EFTA00032733 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Stroock & Stroock Swanson & McNamara GSK Denied Restitution In Trade Secrets Theft Case Three Raymond Buildings A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline LLC is not Vorys Sater entitled to recoup fees and costs incurred by outside counsel from DLA Piper Wachtell Lipton as part of a criminal case over trade secrets stolen from the company. Opinion attached I Read full article » WilmerHale COMPANIES ENVIRONMENTAL 1-800 Contacts Inc. 7-Eleven Inc. Feds Say No To Vacating Guilty Plea In $42M Pollution Case Government prosecutors urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject a Amalgamated Transit Union contractor's bid to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing there was no difference or Amazon.com Inc. conflict of interest between him and his company when he copped to American Bar Association dumping pollutants in the Susquehanna River during a bridge restoration Apple Inc. project. Chevron Corp. Brief attached I Read full article >> City National Bank APPELLATE Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. 1st Circ. OKs Hefty Prison Term For Lottery, Emerald Hoaxes Equal Justice Initiative The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 13-year prison Facebook Inc. sentence for an Ohio man who sweet-talked victims into parting with their Federation Internationale de retirement savings and other investments with colorful schemes about uncut Football Association emeralds and vast lottery winnings frozen in a New York bank account. Fortinet Inc. Opinion attached I Read full article » George Washington University Georgetown University HEALTH Google LLC Analysis Grupo Televise SAB Escobar 5 Years Later: How FCA Earthquake Is Reverberating Humana Inc. Five years ago Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a billing ICAP dispute tied to one patient's treatment at a Massachusetts clinic and in the Illumine Inc. process rattled the nation's entire False Claims Act docket with new doctrine. Infinera Corporation Here, Law360 explores the landmark case's aftermath and finds a litigation landscape that hasn't come close to stabilizing. International Business Machines Opinion attached I Read full article Corp. JAMS Inc. NYC Doc Gets Over 4% Years For Taking Insys Kickbacks Larsen & Toubro Ltd. A former New York City doctor on Wednesday was sentenced to more than London Stock Exchange Group 4% years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks PLC from now-defunct drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. in exchange for Michelin Group prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to his patients. National Association for the Read full article » Advancement of Colored People New York City Bar Association Humana Claims In Telemed RICO Case Advance In Fla. Court New York State Bar Association A Florida federal judge has ruled that a telemedicine company and several physicians cannot escape Humana's lawsuit accusing them of preying on its PG&E Corp. policyholders through a complex nationwide scheme that allegedly billed the Porsche insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription creams. QUALCOMM Inc. Order attached I Read full article » Royal Bank of Canada SolarWinds Corp. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Space Exploration Technologies Corp. San Antonio Man Admits To Role In Air Force Fraud Scheme The Lawyers' Committee for Civil A former U.S. Air Force civilian employee has pled guilty to receiving more Rights Under Law than $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes in return for his help in securing Universal Health Services Inc. EFTA00032734 multimillion-dollar government contracts through a fraud scheme that lasted YouTube Inc. more than a decade. Zeughauser Group LLC Read full article » TAX GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Consumer Financial Protection Magistrate Assigned To Roger Stone's $2M Tax Case Recuses Bureau A U.S. magistrate judge assigned to Roger Stone's $2 million unpaid tax suit Economics and Statistics in Florida recused himself from the case Wednesday. Administration Order attached I Read full article » Executive Office of the President Federal Trade Commission COMPETITION Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Fights Antitrust Conviction At 9th Circ. Information Commissioner's Office Former Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski urged the Ninth Circuit on Internal Revenue Service Wednesday to overturn his conviction for his role in an alleged tuna price- fixing conspiracy, arguing that the trial judge gave erroneous instructions that National Aeronautics and Space provided jurors with too many details on antitrust law and led to his wrongful Administration conviction. Serious Fraud Office Read full article » U.S. Air Force U.S. Attorneys Office EXPERT ANALYSIS U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Massachusetts Law Firm Talent Must Reflect Shifting US Demographics U.S. Attorneys Office for the Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks and Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan District of New Jersey analyze and project U.S. demographic trends to show that law firms that U.S. Attorney's Office for the hope to succeed long-term must recruit, retain and advance female lawyers and lawyers of color, and they outline six steps for meeting these goals. Eastern District of New York Read full article » U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorneys Office for the LEGAL INDUSTRY Middle District of Pennsylvania U.S. Attorneys Office for the Client Data Stolen From UK Law Firm Gateley In Cyberattack Northern District of California London law firm Gateley PLC revealed on Wednesday that it has been U.S. Attorneys Office for the targeted by a cyberattack that resulted in some of its clients' information being compromised, making it the latest casualty of an online security breach Southern District of New York in the legal industry. U.S. Attorneys Office for the Read full article » Western District of Texas U.S. Census Bureau 7 More Firms Raise Associate Salaries U.S. Court of Appeals for the First A host of law firms this week have moved to match Davis Polk & Wardwell Circuit LLP and raise U.S. associates' starting salaries, and one firm has combined U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth the announcement with a plan to accelerate its promotion track. Circuit Read full article » U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Justice Federal Claims Judge Confirmed To Md. District Court U.S. Department of the Treasury A bipartisan Senate vote on Wednesday confirmed a DLA Piper alum to move from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to a lifetime seat on Maryland's U.S. District Court for the Central federal district court. District of California Read full article » U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Cravath Donating $6M Fee To Groups Supporting Civil Rights U.S. District Court for the District of Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced on Tuesday it will donate $6 million New Jersey it earned in attorney fees in pro bono work to five national and local Alabama U.S. District Court for the Eastern organizations supporting civil rights and diversity efforts. District of New York Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Dechert Hit With Discrimination Suit By Ex-Billing Manager U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania EFTA00032735 A former billing manager at Dechert LLP said her supervisor created a hostile U.S. District Court for the Northern work environment and set impossibly high standards for her because she District of California was Black, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit she filed against the U.S. District Court for the Southern firm in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday. District of Florida Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Southern Girardi's Ex-Clients Go After His Wife In State Malpractice Suit District of New York Former clients of celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, along with the U.S. District Court for the Western bankruptcy trustee liquidating the embattled attorney's personal property, District of Texas have urged a California bankruptcy judge to lift a stay so the ex-clients can continue their collection pursuit against his estranged wife, "Real Housewives U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi. U.S. Securities and Exchange Read full article » Commission U.S. Senate Analysis U.S. Supreme Court Khan Goes From Commissioner To Chair In Under 6 Hours U.S. Uniform Law Commission In a single afternoon, Lina Khan was confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission, sworn in, and made its chair in a surprise move that sets up the Big Tech critic for a role she was not anticipated to play and has left observers wondering what to expect. Read full article » Marshals Need More Staff To Protect Judges, DOJ Report Says Less than a year after the killing of a New Jersey federal judge's son by an angry male rights attorney, a U.S. Department of Justice audit found that the U.S. Marshals Service is understaffed and not properly equipped to protect the judiciary. Read full article » Ex-Orrick Atty Now 'Supreme Court Director' At Georgetown Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection has named former Orrick partner Kelsi Brown Corkran as its first U.S. Supreme Court director, a role in which she will manage the group's litigation strategy for civil rights and criminal justice in the nation's top court. Read full article » NY DAs Urge Gov. Cuomo To Veto Conduct Commission Bill An association that represents New York state prosecutors urged Gov. 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