A judge has cited the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege in ordering a lawyer to testify about work he performed for a group of stock-fraud defendants. The ruling stems from an investor suit charging that Defense Technology Systems' stock was used in a "pump and dump" scheme. Judge Shira Scheindlin said the attorney's deposition testimony provided adequate probable cause to believe that the attorney-client communications at issue were intended to facilitate or conceal criminal activity.
November 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal judge in Manhattan has cited the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege in ordering a lawyer to testify about work he performed for a group of stock-fraud defendants.
A group of investors filed suit in 2005 against Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Defense Technology Systems Inc., as well as several company officers and other individuals, charging that the company’s stock was used in a “pump and dump” scheme.
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