Magistrate judge case numbers: 

  1. April 05, 2017

    Chinese Billionaire Wants To Delay UN Bribery Trial

    Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng urged a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday to delay his upcoming trial over allegations that the real estate developer bribed United Nations officials, saying his team needs time to sift through thousands of documents produced by federal prosecutors.

  2. March 10, 2017

    Judge Nixes UN Bribery Suspect's Bid To Block Key Evidence

    A Manhattan federal judge has denied a bid by Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng to restrict evidence that has yet to be produced by federal prosecutors looking to convict the real estate developer of bribing United Nations officials, following weeks of both sides trading barbs.

  3. March 08, 2017

    UN Bribery Suspect Blasts Feds Over Discovery Timeline

    Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng has taken another shot in a discovery fight with federal prosecutors seeking to convict the real estate developer of trying to bribe United Nations officials, citing "troubling" differences in the government's assertions and the case record.

  4. February 28, 2017

    Feds Say UN Bribery Suspect Started 'Interrogation'

    Prosecutors on Tuesday told a New York federal judge in a bribery suit against billionaire real estate developer Ng Lap Seng that he should not grant Ng's motion to suppress statements he'd made to the FBI, saying Ng initiated the interview he is now calling an interrogation.

  5. February 24, 2017

    Feds Hit Back At UN Bribery Suspect's Discovery Grumbles

    Federal prosecutors on Thursday pushed back against complaints from Chinese real estate tycoon Ng Lap Seng that the government has been slow to produce key evidence in the case accusing him of trying to bribe United Nations officials, calling the gripes inaccurate.

  6. February 21, 2017

    UN Bribery Suspect Complains Of Slow Evidence Production

    The legal team for Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng complained Monday that federal prosecutors seeking to convict the real estate developer of trying to bribe United Nations officials have been slow to produce key evidence, keeping up a theme of putting pressure on the government ahead of trial.

  7. February 16, 2017

    Judge Suggests UN Bribe Indictment Gets By McDonnell

    Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng told U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick on Thursday that the McDonnell precedent requires prosecutors to detail what official acts were taken in exchange for Ng's payments, but the judge intimated that he was unlikely to dismiss the high-profile bribery case on those grounds.

  8. January 31, 2017

    Tax Charges In UN Bribery Case Should Stand, Feds Argue

    A Chinese man accused of helping his billionaire boss bribe United Nations officials to move an annual conference to his property in Macau can't escape tax-related charges, the federal government argued in New York federal court Monday, saying there's enough detail in a superseding indictment to support the counts.

  9. January 02, 2017

    White Collar Cases To Watch in 2017

    The coming months will provide a glut of trials and enforcement cases to watch as federal prosecutors attempt to broaden foreign bribery liability, navigate a new public corruption landscape, shield corporate monitorships and convince juries that some bond sales practices are crimes.

  10. December 08, 2016

    Chinese Billionaire Denied Separate Trial In UN Bribe Case

    A Manhattan federal judge refused on Thursday to split the government's allegations of bribery at the United Nations into two cases, denying Chinese real estate billionaire Ng Lap Seng's request for a separate trial from the one against his alleged accomplice Jeff C. Yin.