A federal judge has sided with a group of insurance companies, finding that they’re not obligated to cover the criminal defense fees of a former partner with the firm Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, who is accused of conspiring to fraudulently take more than $12.5 million in Somali government assets.
In early 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice served a subpoena on the midsize firm in connection with a criminal investigation regarding various individuals’ activities and efforts to retrieve frozen assets of the Somali government, according to the opinion filed April 28 by U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby of the District of Maryland.
