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From: White Collar Law360 <news-alt@law360.com> To: Subject: DOJ Eyes Fraud Section Acting Chief For Permanent Gig Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 07:50:53 +0000 ; lbaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS ; t2,Law360 Pro Say Podcast DOJ Eyes Fraud Section Acting Chief For Permanent Gig Robert Zink, the acting chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, is expected to be tapped as permanent head of the corporate crime- fighting unit, sources familiar with the matter have confirmed to Law360. Read full article » Epstein Accusers Appear At Bail Hearing, Ask He Be Jailed The government sparred with sex-trafficking suspect Jeffrey Epstein at a bail hearing on Monday, decrying his "offensive" arguments it said minimized the charges — arguments punctuated by pleas to jail him from two women who say Epstein had victimized them. Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here PR Exec Files As Foreign Agent After Callout In Craig Case LAW FIRMS A London public relations executive expected to take the stand as a Akin Gump prosecution witness at the upcoming trial of former Skadden partner Gregory Bayard PA Craig registered Friday with the U.S. Department of Justice as a foreign agent of Ukraine. Campbell & Williams Read full article » Cleary Gottlieb Cosgrove Eisenberg DOJ Urges 'Rigorous' Conflict Inquiry In 'Varsity Blues' Case Covington & Burling Federal prosecutors have again urged a Boston federal judge overseeing the Davis Polk "Varsity Blues" college admissions cheating case to hold a "rigorous inquiry" Donnelly Conroy into conflicts of interest at BigLaw firms representing parents and the University of Southern California. Eisner Gorin Read full article » Freedman + Taitelman Gellert Scali Couple Can Get Separate Trials In Fraud Suit, 3rd Circ. Says Gibson Dunn The Third Circuit has ordered a new trial for a woman convicted alongside Gupta Wessler her husband in Pennsylvania federal court in a benefits fraud case after finding that she'd been improperly forced to choose between taking the stand Hogan Lovells in her own defense and exercising her privilege not to testify against her Horack Talley spouse. Hughes Hubbard Opinion attached I Read full article >> Katten Muchin Kaye McLane HBO 'Neverland' Arbitration Row Paused In Anti-SLAPP Effort Kinsella Weitzman A California federal judge on Monday held back on deciding whether the Latham & Watkins estate of Michael Jackson's breach of contract suit over HBO's "Leaving Neverland" documentary should go to arbitration right away, instead allowing Mark Beck Law HBO to address First Amendment issues underlying the allegations it Motley Rice disparaged Jackson's character. Nixon Peabody EFTA00032956 Read full article » O'Melveny & Myers SECURITIES Offit Kurman Pepper Hamilton Nomura Settles SEC's Shoddy Supervision Claims For $26.5M Richards Layton Nomura agreed Monday to pay more than $26 million to resolve the U.S. Robbins Geller Securities and Exchange Commission's allegations that the bank failed to supervise traders who allegedly lied to clients about the pricing of residential Ropes & Gray mortgage-backed securities and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Scheper Kim 2 documents attached I Read full article » SeegerWeiss Skadden SEC Settles With Broker In Woodbridge Ponzi Scheme Stradley Ronon The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled claims Monday with a Wachtell Lipton Tennessee-based broker the agency accused of selling unregistered securities in connection with two Ponzi schemes, including the $1.2 billion Weil Gotshal scheme allegedly perpetrated by the Woodbridge Group of Cos. LLC. WilmerHale 2 documents attached I Read full article » Zuckerman Spaeder Venezuelans Hit Gem-Tied Crypto Co. With $30M Ponzi Suit COMPANIES A group of Venezuelan nationals filed a fraud suit in Florida federal court on Barnes & Noble Inc. Friday, claiming they were reeled into a $30 million Ponzi scheme with Clinique Laboratories LLC promises of lofty returns on investments in a diamond-backed cryptocurrency. ConvergEx Group LLC Complaint attached I Read full article » Ennis Inc. Estee Lauder Companies Inc. Reckitt Hit With Stock Drop Suit Over $1.4B Opioid Probe Deal FTI Consulting Inc. British pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC was hit with a Home Box Office Inc. stock drop suit Monday in New Jersey federal court, shortly after announcing it will pay U.S. authorities up to $1.4 billion to settle an investigation into an Indivior PLC opioid addiction medication. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Complaint attached I Read full article » National Consumer Law Center New Jersey On-Line LLC PUBLIC INTEGRITY New York Times Co. New York University Boston City Aides Make 11th-Hour Bid To Toss Extortion Case Nomura Holdings, Inc. Two Boston City Hall aides charged with pressuring a music festival to hire unneeded union labor made a final bid to get extortion charges thrown out Pacific Investment Management Co. Monday in federal court just a week before jury selection is scheduled to begin. Pitney Bowes Inc. Read full article » Podesta Group Inc. Purdue Pharma LP BANK FRAUD Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC Tommy Hilfiger Corp. Feds Say Tribal Immunity No Bar Against Criminal Charges UBS AG The federal government told the Third Circuit on Friday that another court's recent ruling on tribal immunity to civil suits didn't help an attorney and Woodbridge Group of Cos. LLC businessman sentenced to jail on criminal charges for helping provide loans with illegally high interest rates through tribe-owned companies. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Letter attached I Read full article » Administrative Conference of the United States HEALTH Department of Commerce Executive Office of the President Insys Proposes Novel Gov't Committee Deal In Ch. 11 Case Federal Bureau of Investigation Bankrupt drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. reached a deal with a group of Federal Trade Commission government entities seeking representation in its Chapter 11 case Monday by Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians proposing the formation of a limited-purpose committee of local agencies that Internal Revenue Service will be able to participate in plan negotiations. Kalispel Tribe of Indians Read full article » Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake IMMIGRATION Superior Chippewa Indians EFTA00032957 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Tent Rental Biz Used Unauthorized Workers To Make Millions Administration A Florida tent rental company and its officers allegedly raked in millions while Securities and Exchange concealing from federal investigators that their workforce was composed of Commission immigrants not authorized to work in the country, U.S. Department of Justice officials said Friday. U.S. Attorney's Office Read full article » U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Ex-Navy Official Sentenced To 70 Mos. For Kickback Plot U.S. Court of Appeals for the A former civilian senior procurement official has been sentenced in California Second Circuit federal court to 70 months in prison for taking $1.2 million in kickbacks and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth paying fraudulent invoices for U.S. Navy contracts, prosecutors said Monday. Circuit Read full article » U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit TAX U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Department of Homeland 10th Circ. Axes Tax Conviction Over Faulty Pro Se Waiver Security The Tenth Circuit on Monday vacated a $342,000 judgment against a man U.S. Department of Justice convicted of tax evasion and obstruction, saying a Utah federal court did not properly warn him that he needed to follow federal court rules if he U.S. District Court for the Central represented himself. District of California Opinion attached I Read full article 0 U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts PEOPLE U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey Judge Who Oversaw Sen. Menendez Trial Dies At 86: Report U.S. District Court for the Southern U.S. District Judge William H. Walls, who presided over Sen. Bob District of Florida Menendez's New Jersey federal jury trial and acquittal for bribery, has died at U.S. District Court for the Southern the age of 86, according to a report from NJ.com. District of New York Read full article » U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EXPERT ANALYSIS U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Immigration and Customs What To Know About Pending Insider Trading Legislation Enforcement Recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Insider U.S. Navy Trading Prohibition Act will represent a potentially significant clarification of U.S. Senate U.S. insider trading laws if it proceeds further. And it could be viewed as extending criminal liability to "reckless" conduct, say attorneys at Cleary. U.S. Supreme Court Read full article » United States District Court for the District of Utah Federal Agencies Need A Uniform Record-Keeping Process The administrative record is very important to federal agency litigation — as showcased in last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census — yet there is no set of consistent principles to guide agencies in compiling these official records, say attorneys at WilmerHale. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Conservative Lawyers Slam Trump's 'Ignorant Racist' Tweets Checks and Balances, a group of conservative and libertarian attorneys, on Monday tore into tweets in which President Donald Trump suggested four Democratic congresswomen of color should "go back" to their "crime infested" countries, condemning the president's "ignorant racist nature" and calling his rhetoric "a rejection of those founding principles of our nation." Read full article » EFTA00032958 Estee Lauder Promotes General Counsel To Vice Chairman Estee Lauder elevated its executive vice president and general counsel to the newly created position of vice chairman, a role in which she will continue to promote women's professional development. Read full article » Offit Kurman Deal With NC Firm Paves Way For 13th Office Offit Kurman PA announced Monday that it is entering into an affiliation with Charlotte-based Horack Talley Pharr & Lowndes PA, allowing the firm to expand into its 13th office and its first in North Carolina. Read full article » Gov't Can't Duck Review Of PACER Fee Use, Fed. Circ. Told A certified class of PACER users has urged the Federal Circuit to find that the judiciary can review whether the government improperly spent more than $200 million it collected from fees, saying the government can't rebut their claims and has resorted to making a "novel" jurisdictional argument that has no weight. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Barnes & Noble's General Counsel Since he officially started working as the first in-house lawyer at Barnes & Noble in 2000, Brad Feuer said he has done "everything and anything" at the company. 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