Lawyers for an investment advisory firm that fell victim to a scheme to defraud $230 million from the Russian treasury want Baker & Hostetler, which represented a real estate firm that was accused of taking part in the scheme, to cough up $1.4 million in attorney fees.
Baker & Hostetler previously represented Prevezon Holdings, a real estate firm accused of helping to launder funds from the treasury fraud—including investing a portion of it in luxury apartments in Manhattan—that was the target of a civil forfeiture and money laundering suit prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District.
