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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: < Subject: Ex-White House Counsel McGahn Ordered To Testify To House Date: "Cue, 26 Nov 2019 08:39:43 +0000 rlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS ;,,Law360 Pro Say Podcast Ex-White House Counsel McGahn Ordered To Testify To House A D.C. federal judge ruled Monday that former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a subpoena to testify in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to obstruct former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election interference. Order attached I Read full article » Katten Settles $69M Malpractice Row Over Lending Scam A Missouri federal judge on Monday dismissed a malpractice suit against Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP after it settled the matter with several corporate entities linked to a decade-long payday lending scam that resulted Listen to our new podcast here in a $69 million judgment against the companies. I document attached I Read full article » LAW FIRMS Allen & Overy Atty Lied In Hyundai Construction's CAA Case, DOJ Says Bartle & Marcus A Chicago-area attorney is facing charges of perjury and obstruction of Berger Harris justice for allegedly lying under oath before a federal grand jury in a criminal Bird & Bird Clean Air Act case against Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc., the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. Blank Rome Indictment attached I Read full article » Boies Schiller Bruce S. Rogow PA Ex-CEO Gets Over 4 Years For Cooking Hedge Fund's Books Buschel & Gibbons A Manhattan federal judge hit former Premium Point Investments CEO Butler Royals Anilesh "Neil" Ahuja with 50 months in prison Monday for directing a scheme Cahill Gordon to overinflate his fallen hedge fund's assets by $100 million, rejecting a Clifford Chance defense argument that his underlings were responsible. Read full article » Cloth Fair Chambers Consovoy McCarthy SEC Expands Ad Fraud Suit Against Outcome Health Execs Cotsirilos Tighe Less than two weeks after federal prosecutors and regulators targeted a Cravath Swaine former Outcome Health executive over an alleged "massive" advertising Critchley Kinum fraud scheme, three additional former executives have been named in the parallel criminal and civil cases, according to court documents filed Monday. Crowley Fleck 2 documents attached I Read full article » Doughty Street Chambers Fried Frank Epstein Guards Face April Trial, Decry Broken Prison System German May A Manhattan federal judge on Monday set an April trial date for two prison Hogan Lovells guards charged with failing to check on inmates the night wealthy financier Holwell Shuster Jackson Lewis EFTA00032932 and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his cell, overruling bids by Jenner & Block the defense to delay. Jones Day Read full article » Katten INVESTIGATIONS Keker Van Nest & Peters Kirkland & Ellis Justices Pause House Panel's Trump Records Subpoena A House committee must wait to enforce a subpoena on President Donald LeClairRyan Trump's longtime accounting firm seeking eight years of his business Martin G. Weinberg PC records, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, allowing Trump's attorneys McGuireWoods to file a petition to the high court. Michael Best Order attached I Read full article » Milbank LLP Modus Law COMPLIANCE Monico & Spevack Alstom UK Unit Ordered To Pay £16.4M For African Bribes O'Hagan Meyer A judge ordered the British subsidiary of Alstom SA to pay £16.4 million ($21 Paul Weiss million) on Monday after it was convicted of bribing officials to secure a PilieroMazza PLLC lucrative infrastructure contract in Africa, closing the Serious Fraud Office's Proskauer Rose long-running probe into the French rail and energy giant's worldwide QEB Hollis Whiteman business dealings. Quinn Emanuel Read full article » Rimon PC SECURITIES Robbins Russell Saul Ewing Insider Trading Verdict Backed By Evidence, 1st Circ. Rules Sidley Austin A jury had ample evidence to convict a man of passing along inside Three Raymond Buildings information about a tire company merger from his wife, the company's general counsel, despite newly unearthed documents and witnesses that he Wilson Sonsini says show there was public news of the imminent merger, the First Circuit Young Conaway has ruled. Opinion attached I Read full article » COMPANIES Alstom SA DOJ, Mine Investors Say Och-Ziff Unit Can't Duck Restitution Amazon.com Inc. At the court's beckoning, the U.S. Department of Justice and investors in an American Bar Association African mining company each said Friday that an Och-Ziff Capital American Civil Liberties Union Management Group unit can't be excused from paying restitution over a American Federation of Labor and bribery scheme. Congress of Industrial 2 documents attached I Read full article » Organizations Apollo Tyres Ltd. Qatar PM Wanted To Be Barclays"Special Gulf Guy,' Jury Told Apple Inc. The former prime minister of Qatar wanted to be Barclays'"special Gulf guy" Bumble Bee Foods LLC in the bank's financial crisis-era fundraising and was against other Middle Eastern investors participating, a London jury heard during testimony from Bunge Ltd. the bank's rainmaker in the region on Monday. Capital One Financial Corp. Read full article » Citizens Financial Group Inc. ContextMedia Inc. Three Traders In Newswire Hack Plot Liable For $47.6M Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Three traders and their companies are liable for nearly $47.6 million after Court of Arbitration for Sport years of ignoring a 2015 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit alleging that they traded off of stolen earnings information, a New Jersey Deutsche Bank AG federal judge said Monday. Instagram Inc. Order attached Read full article International Olympic Committee JPMorgan Chase & Co. Al Co. Investor Says Founder Skimmed Assets, Nuked Critics Lambda Legal Defense & An investor in augmented intelligence company MondoBrain Inc. accused its Educational Fund founder Monday of skimming company assets and setting up deals that Mazars USA LLP benefited him personally, with critics subjected to "nuclear" retaliation, during Microsoft Corp. arguments in Delaware Chancery Court over blocking the conduct. EFTA00032933 Read full article » National Association for the PUBLIC INTEGRITY Advancement of Colored People National Rifle Association of 'Bridgegate' Convictions For Fraud Must Stand, Justices Told America Two former associates of ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were convicted Nike Inc. for lying about a purported traffic study to create massive gridlock as part of Och-Ziff Capital Management the "Bridgegate" scandal and not for hiding political motives for an otherwise Group LLC lawful decision, prosecutors have said in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to Outcome Health maintain the convictions. Brief attached Read full article » Planned Parenthood Federation UnitedLex Corp. Roger Stone's Bid To Shake Guilty Verdicts Falls Flat Wells Fargo & Co. Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone can't escape guilty verdicts on World Anti-Doping Agency the seven felony charges against him because he made no argument that the YouTube Inc. evidence used to convict him was lacking in any way, a D.C. federal judge explained Monday. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Order attached l Read full article » Consumer Financial Protection Bureau CYBERSECURITY Delaware Court of Chancery Executive Office of the President Assange Not Fit For US Extradition Hearing, Doctors Say Federal Bureau of Investigation More than 60 doctors have written to British authorities saying they fear Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could die in prison unless he gets medical treatment before a trial hearing as the U.S. seeks to extradite him to face Federal Reserve System espionage charges. Maryland Attorney General's Office Read full article » Office of Foreign Assets Control Port Authority of New York & New SANCTIONS Jersey Securities and Exchange Apple Strikes Deal With Treasury Over Sanctions Lapse Commission Apple Inc. will pay nearly $467,000 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury Serious Fraud Office for allegedly hosting a sanctioned Slovenian software developer on its U.S. Attorney's Office platform and processing more than $1 million in payments to the company, the Treasury Department announced Monday. U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Notice attached I Read full article » Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth LEGAL ETHICS Circuit U S Department of Homeland Avenatti Attack On Fraud Charge Is 'Hyperbole,' Gov't Says Security Michael Avenatti ignores the "unmistakable" wording of an allegation that he U.S. Department of Justice defrauded a client as he plotted to extort millions from Nike Inc., the federal U.S. Department of the Treasury government has told a New York judge, hoping to knock down the lawyer's U.S. District Court for the Central arguments that the indictment against him is flawed because it doesn't use District of California the word "bribe." U.S. District Court for the District of Memorandum attached I Read full article » Idaho U.S. District Court for the District of IMMIGRATION New Jersey U.S. District Court for the Eastern Ex-China Diplomat Hit With 16 Years On Forced Labor Rap District of New York A former Chinese diplomat convicted at trial of using workers from his home U.S. District Court for the Eastern country as forced labor for U.S. construction projects was sentenced Monday District of Virginia to nearly 16 years in prison, with a New York federal judge decrying a U.S. District Court for the Northern yearslong scheme to profit off of alleged slaves. District of California Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS U S District Court for the Northern US Sues Contractor Over 'Sham Office' Used To Earn $52M District of Illinois EFTA00032934 The U.S. government has accused an Idaho-based company of fraudulently U.S. District Court for the Southern obtaining more than $52 million in federal contracts by allegedly creating a District of New York sham office with no-show employees to qualify for benefits intended to help U.S. District Court for the Western small businesses in economically depressed areas. District of Missouri Complaint attached j Read full article » U.S. Environmental Protection SPORTS & BETTING Agency U.S. Supreme Court Ex-Marketing Exec Cops To Embezzling $22M For Poker, Debts A professional poker player and former executive at digital marketing company StyleHaul Inc. has admitted to embezzling more than $22 million from his employer and spending that money gambling and paying off his credit cards, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Read full article » Russia Should Face Olympic Ban, Anti-Doping Panel Says A World Anti-Doping Agency committee recommended Monday that Russia face a four-year ban from the Olympics and other international competitions after finding the country had destroyed or altered doping test data it was required to turn over because of past allegations of state-sponsored doping. Read full article » COMPETITION Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Admits Getting Non-Public Info On Rivals Over repeated objections by defense attorneys, federal prosecutors on Monday cross-examined ex-Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski about allegations that he engaged in tuna-industry price fixing, drawing out concessions that he "occasionally received non-public information from competitors and "may have asked his employees to gather it. Memorandum attached I Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS Series Judging A Book: Donald Reviews 'Usual Cruelty' The provocative new book by Alec Karakatsanis, "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System," shines a searing light on the anachronism that is the American criminal justice system, says Sixth Circuit Judge Bernice Donald. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY BigLaw Revenue Still On The Rise Through 3rd Quarter 2019 The legal industry has continued to have a strong year through the third quarter, according to a report released Monday by the Wells Fargo Private Bank's Legal Specialty Group, although numbers have not reached the peak levels seen in 2018. Read full article » Kavanaugh Interested In Revisiting Executive Power Doctrine Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday said he is open to the idea of reviving the so-called nondelegation doctrine in a future case, the latest conservative on the court to suggest support for bringing back separation of powers principles that one liberal justice feared would make "most of government" unconstitutional. Read full article » High Court Won't Hear 'Serial' Subject Syed's New Trial Appeal EFTA00032935 The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday it won't hear Adnan Syed's appeal challenging his 19-year-old murder conviction, which was profiled in the popular podcast "Serial," leaving intact a controversial 4-3 ruling by Maryland's high court that denied Syed a new trial due to his defense counsel's shortcomings. Read full article » 9th Circ. Pick's Views Too Extreme, Liberal Groups Warn After a party-line committee vote last week to advance the nomination of former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke to the Ninth Circuit, liberal groups have urged senators to block his confirmation, saying his record shows an extreme ideological agenda. Read full article » Allen & Overy Matches Milbank On Associate Bonuses Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy is the latest to follow the example set by Milbank LLP, with the firm confirming Monday that it will be awarding bonuses for its associates that are in line with the levels provided at Milbank and several other firms this year. Read full article » LeClairRyan, Joint Venture Settle Worker's Pay Bias Suit Defunct law firm LeClairRyan PLLC and its operational services joint venture with UnitedLex have settled claims that they discriminated against a former marketing employee by paying her less than a male subordinate. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Citizens Financial Group's General Counsel Steve Gannon, the top lawyer at Citizens Financial Group, has been representing similar institutions for most of his career. 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