White Collar

  • November 05, 2024

    Top French Soccer League, CVC Snared In Corruption Probe

    French financial law enforcement officials searched the offices of France's top professional soccer league and of private-equity investment partner CVC Capital Partners on Tuesday, Law360 confirmed, as part of an investigation of possible corruption in their collaboration on the league's media rights company.

  • November 05, 2024

    Fla. Agency's Election Fraud Power Needs Review, Court Told

    A man accused of election fraud is asking the Florida Supreme Court to consider whether the Florida Office of Statewide Prosecution has the authority to pursue the claims against him.

  • November 05, 2024

    Georgia Atty Disbarred After Theft Conviction

    A Waco, Georgia, attorney was disbarred Tuesday after he was convicted of "theft by conversion" for taking advantage of an elderly client.

  • November 05, 2024

    On Election Eve, Trump Fights Reviving Nixed Charges In Ga.

    With voters set to decide on his bid to return to the White House, former President Donald Trump has urged a Georgia state appeals court to reject an attempt by the Fulton County District Attorney's Office to reinstate six criminal charges against him and five of his co-defendants in an election interference case.

  • November 05, 2024

    Conn. Politician Asks To Avoid Jail In Voter Fraud Conspiracy

    A former Connecticut city councilor has asked a federal judge to impose a "non-custodial sentence" after he admitted to a misdemeanor tied to a voter fraud conspiracy, citing his lack of criminal history and a need to support his family.

  • November 05, 2024

    DOJ Says Ga. Poll Worker Arrested For Bomb Threat Letter

    The U.S. Department of Justice said a Georgia man was arrested on Tuesday after mailing a threatening letter to the superintendent of the Jones County election office in mid-October, a day after the man had served as a poll worker there.

  • November 05, 2024

    Georgia Man To Appeal Concrete Bid-Rigging Conviction

    A Georgia man who, alongside his brother, was found guilty this summer of involvement in a scheme that fixed prices and rigged bids for tens of millions of dollars of ready-mix concrete contracts said Monday that he plans to appeal his conviction to the Eleventh Circuit.

  • November 05, 2024

    On The Ground: How Attorneys Safeguarded The Election

    Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.

  • November 04, 2024

    Va. Co., Execs Charged For Transshipping US Tech To Russia

    A Virginia-based e-commerce company and two senior executives transshipped over $6 million worth of sensitive American technology to Russia through Turkey, Finland and Kazakhstan in violation of U.S. export law and sanctions imposed to counter Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine, a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Virginia federal court alleges.

  • November 04, 2024

    Adams Loses Bid To Sanction Feds Over Alleged Leaks

    A Manhattan federal judge Monday rejected New York City Mayor Eric Adams' bid to sanction the prosecutors handling his bribery and corruption case for allegedly leaking secret grand jury information to journalists, saying he hasn't shown the news articles contain protected information or that prosecutors were behind any leaks.

  • November 04, 2024

    UK Stock Pumper Admits To $100M Market Manipulation Rap

    A London-based trader on Monday admitted to his role in what prosecutors say was a $100 million multi-faceted international stock manipulation scheme that used a Swiss asset manager tied to numerous claims of securities fraud to secretly control and falsely inflate the stock of several microcap companies.

  • November 04, 2024

    Couple Avoids Prison For $500K Emission-Tampering Scheme

    A Washington federal judge on Monday sentenced a married couple who owned an auto repair shop to four months of GPS monitor and four years of probation for raking in more than $500,000 by illegally altering pollution-control devices on hundreds of diesel trucks.

  • November 04, 2024

    Full 4th Circ. Asked To Hear Fraud Witness, Jury Issues

    Two men convicted of investment fraud have asked the full Fourth Circuit to reconsider their appeal concerning a jury hidden from view of the public and accusers allowed to testify by deposition, saying a split panel blessed trial practices that were "unprecedented on multiple levels."

  • November 04, 2024

    SEC Must Prep For Legal Challenges To Regs, Watchdog Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should prepare for more litigation over its rulemaking agenda and make sure its new regulations can pass judicial muster, particularly in light of budget constraints, the agency's inspector general warned in a Monday report.

  • November 04, 2024

    Whistleblowers Win Cut Of Medical Kickback Settlement

    Three whistleblowers who tipped off the federal government to a medical device company's multimillion-dollar kickback scheme are entitled to a cut of the $3 million in False Claims Act settlements paid by surgeons who admitted participating in the sham consulting ploy, a Boston federal judge ruled Monday.

  • November 04, 2024

    BofA Unit Escapes Trading Firm's Spoofing Suit For Now

    An Illinois federal judge has tossed a trading firm's proposed class action claiming that a Bank of America unit manipulated markets for U.S. Treasury futures and options, ruling that the firm fails to allege actual damages, but giving it an opportunity to amend the suit.

  • November 04, 2024

    Binance Says Lawsuit Can't Connect It To Terrorism Finance

    Cryptocurrency platform Binance has asked a New York federal judge to toss a suit alleging the firm helped foster terrorist activity, saying that it "unequivocally condemns all acts of terrorism" and that the complaint does not connect the company to the alleged acts.

  • November 04, 2024

    FINRA Fines Morgan Stanley $1M For Controls Violations

    Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC has agreed to pay $1 million to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims it violated the Exchange Act by failing to safeguard its customers against the entry of orders that were placed in error.

  • November 04, 2024

    Colo. Justices Say Expert Testimony OK Without Formalities

    The Colorado Supreme Court held Monday that the formal offer and acceptance of an expert isn't required for that expert's testimony to be admissible, finding in a published opinion that there's no actual state requirement for courts to use such a practice.

  • November 04, 2024

    Ex-LA City Hall Lobbyist Dodges Jail For Bribery Scheme

    A California federal judge Monday sentenced a former Los Angeles City Hall lobbyist to six months home confinement for his role in conspiring to bribe a then-city councilmember, telling the defendant he started the day planning to sentence him to prison but changed his mind after hearing his "sincere" comments.

  • November 04, 2024

    Worker Says Ga. City Fired Him For Opposing Mayor's Fraud

    The former finance director of Norcross, Georgia, has slapped the city, its mayor and a city council member with a complaint in Georgia federal court alleging he was subjected to "vicious retaliation" and fired after disclosing the mayor's "fraud, waste, abuse and violations of the law."

  • November 04, 2024

    Atty Moves To Oust DA Who Cleared Cops In Brother's Death

    A Littler Mendelson PC shareholder's effort to remove the Massachusetts district attorney who absolved officers in the 2021 fatal shooting of his brother left justices on the state's highest court grappling with the reach of a seldom-used state statute allowing them to oust government officials for "the public good."

  • November 04, 2024

    Ohio Justices Tap 3 To Mull Suspension For Indicted Mayor

    The Ohio Supreme Court appointed three retired judges Monday to decide whether East Cleveland Mayor Brandon King should be suspended in light of his felony indictment for allegedly using his position to funnel public funds to his own companies.

  • November 04, 2024

    Feds Slam Ozy Media CEO's 'Last-Ditch' Effort To DQ Judge

    Prosecutors have pushed back against Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's "last-ditch effort" to get his fraud and identity theft convictions undone, insisting that investments owned by the New York federal judge overseeing his case are in hedge funds and not in Watson's victims, and are too small to matter.

  • November 01, 2024

    'Mutant Ape' NFT Developer Avoids Prison For 'Rug Pull'

    A 26-year-old French citizen was spared further incarceration on Friday for a $2.9 million scheme to fraudulently market "Mutant Ape Planet" nonfungible tokens to investors, a sentence in large part driven by the uncertainty over the purchasers' loss.

Expert Analysis

  • A Timeline Of Antisemitism Legislation And What It Means

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    What began as hearings in the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce has expanded to a House-wide effort to combat antisemitism and related issues, with wide-ranging implications for education, finance and nonprofit entities, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Criminal Enforcement Considerations For Gov't Contractors

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    Government contractors increasingly exposed to criminal liability risks should establish programs that enable detection and remediation of employee misconduct, consider voluntary disclosure, and be aware of the potentially disastrous consequences of failing to make a mandatory disclosure where the government concludes it was required, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Opinion

    States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions

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    Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • FBI Raid Signals Growing Criminal Enforcement Of Algorithms

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    The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's increased willingness to pursue the use of algorithmic pricing as a potential criminal violation means that companies need to understand the software solutions they employ and stay abreast of antitrust best practices when contracting with providers, say attorneys at Rule Garza.

  • How Attorneys Can Reduce Bad Behavior At Deposition

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    To minimize unprofessional behavior by opposing counsel and witnesses, and take charge of the room at deposition, attorneys should lay out some key ground rules at the outset — and be sure to model good behavior themselves, says John Farrell at Fish & Richardson.

  • Best Text Practices In Light Of Terraform's $4.5B Fraud Deal

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    Text messages were extremely important in a recent civil trial against Terraform Labs, leading to a $4.5 billion settlement, so litigants in securities fraud cases need to have robust mobile data policies that address the content and retention of messages, and the obligations of employees to allow for collection, say Josh Sohn and Alicia Clausen at Crowell & Moring.

  • Tricky Venue Issues Persist In Fortenberry Prosecution Redo

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    Former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry was recently indicted for a second time after the Ninth Circuit tossed his previous conviction for improper venue, but the case, now pending in the District of Columbia, continues to illustrate the complexities of proper venue in "false statement scheme" prosecutions, says Kevin Coleman at Covington.

  • Series

    Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.

  • Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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    The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

  • 6 Lessons From DOJ's 1st Controlled Drug Case In Telehealth

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    Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s first-ever criminal prosecution over telehealth-prescribed controlled substances in U.S. v. Ruthia He, healthcare providers should be mindful of the risks associated with restricting the physician-patient relationship when crafting new business models, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State

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    On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.

  • Opinion

    Justices' Malicious-Prosecution Ruling Shows Rare Restraint

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, declining to limit malicious-prosecution suits, is a model of judicial modesty and incrementalism, in sharp contrast to the court’s dramatic swings on other rights, says Steven Schwinn at the University of Illinois Chicago Law School.

  • Opinion

    Trump Immunity Ruling Upends Our Constitutional Scheme

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s Trump v. U.S. decision elevates the president to imperial status and paves the way for nearly absolute presidential immunity from potential criminal prosecutions — with no constitutional textual support, says Paul Berman at the George Washington University Law School.

  • High Court Paves Middle Ground For Proceedings Obstruction

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Fischer sensibly leaves the door open for prosecutors to make more nuanced assessments as to whether defendants' actions directly or tangentially impair the availability or integrity of anything used in an official proceeding, without criminalizing acts such as peaceful demonstrations, say attorneys at Perry Law.

  • How To Clean Up Your Generative AI-Produced Legal Drafts

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    As law firms increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence tools to produce legal text, attorneys should be on guard for the overuse of cohesive devices in initial drafts, and consider a few editing pointers to clean up AI’s repetitive and choppy outputs, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

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