By Jane Wester | July 26, 2023
Attorneys from Skadden are defense counsel to Joe Lewis, 86, founder of a private equity firm, who was charged in an indictment with 16 counts of securities fraud.
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By Jane Wester | July 25, 2023
Under the terms of the agreements, which were impacted by case law stemming from the "Bridgegate" affair, the U.S. Attorney will move to dismiss the remaining charges with prejudice presuming the three men follow the law and stay in touch with U.S. Pretrial Services for the next three months.
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By Emily Saul | July 20, 2023
Deutsche Bank says former trader Gavin Black has failed to meet the elements necessary to show he was the victim of malicious prosecution. Black was convicted of wire fraud and later exonerated.
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By Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack | July 20, 2023
In May 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit set aside the convictions of two individuals in the government's high-profile "Varsity Blues" prosecution of fraud and bribery in the college admissions process. In part one of this two-part series, we addressed the court's holding that the government charged an improper "hub and spoke" conspiracy, which resulted in an unfair trial due to the admission of irrelevant prejudicial evidence against defendants. In this article, we address the court's bribery and fraud rulings.
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By Sarah Hyser-Staub and Conner Porterfield | July 20, 2023
The Supreme Court recently held that when determining culpability in an FCA case, liability turns on a defendant's own subjective belief and not just what an "objectively reasonable" person knew or believed. The court's June 1 decision in Schutte v. SuperValu, No. 21-1326, will greatly impact how future FCA cases are litigated.
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By Jane Wester | July 17, 2023
Kasten argued that the best way to protect investors would be to provide cryptocurrency platforms with a path to registration, but federal regulators have so far failed to do so.
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By Jane Wester | July 13, 2023
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York accused Mashinsky of portraying Celsius as a secure "bank" for crypto deposits while actually operating the company as a investment fund whose risks were not disclosed to customers.
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By Jane Wester | July 12, 2023
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, who noted this was her first time sentencing a corporation in 25 years on the federal bench, described the amount of money involved as "astronomical."
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By Brad Kutner | July 11, 2023
Justice Department brings Foreign Agents Registration Act charges against dual U.S-Israeli citizen who allegedly worked with a Chinese national.
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By Jonathan B. New, Patrick T. Campbell, James A. Sherer and Luke E. Record | July 10, 2023
Regulators increasingly are scrutinizing employee use of personal devices and third-party messaging apps. This article summarizes the DOJ's recent guidance and the SEC's enforcement trends and priorities in this area, and it provides information governance best practices companies can implement now to ensure they are meeting regulators' expectations and recordkeeping rules.
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