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December 23, 2024
Ex-Pharma Exec Charged With $38M Insider Trading Scheme
A former chief science officer of pharmaceutical company Humanigen faces charges in New Jersey federal court that he dumped shares of the company before it publicly announced its potential COVID-19 drug did not receive federal approval, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
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December 23, 2024
Fugees Star Says He's Not Like Madoff As Sentencing Nears
Former Fugees rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. government's bid to have him serve a life sentence for foreign influence schemes was "absurd," emphasizing that he, unlike infamous American financier Bernie Madoff, did not cause anyone to lose money.
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December 20, 2024
SEC's Dealer Rule Loss Is A Lesson To Regulators, Atty Says
A Sullivan & Cromwell LLP attorney who successfully litigated a crypto industry challenge to vacate a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule expanding the definition of dealer said the Texas federal judge's decision is another block in the recent chain of court decisions warning federal agencies to refrain from stretching old statutory terms to reach new contexts that aren't clearly within their authority.
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December 20, 2024
TD Bank, Boeing And Medicare: Compliance Headlines In 2024
Corporate compliance lessons were never far from the headlines in 2024, as regulatory challenges and headaches facing industries ranging from healthcare to aerospace played front and center, including TD Bank's historic $3.1 billion money laundering settlement that federal prosecutors billed as one for the risk-management textbooks.
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December 20, 2024
Argentina Asks Justices To Review Bondholders' $310M Win
Argentina wants the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split over what law applies when determining whether a country's assets are shielded from creditors under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, saying its reversionary interests worth $310 million in collateral backing recently matured 1990s Brady bonds are immune.
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