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May 11, 2022
Ex-Platinum Execs Can't Get New Trial In Fraud Case
A Brooklyn federal judge refused to acquit or retry two former executives of defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners who were convicted of defrauding bondholders of an oil and gas company, saying the pair have not demonstrated "the jury's verdict presents a manifest injustice."
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September 23, 2020
Platinum Partners Co-Founder Wants $5M Bond Cut To $500K
Platinum Partners co-founder Mark Nordlicht is asking a New York federal judge to soften his release conditions while prosecutors continue to appeal the judge's decision to grant Nordlicht a new trial on fraud charges.
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July 02, 2020
Platinum Receiver Settles With Insurers For $14M
The receiver for defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners agreed to pay around $14 million to settle with insurers that say Platinum owed them more than $44 million, a move the receiver said eliminated one of the biggest obstacles to investors finally recouping some of their losses.
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January 28, 2020
Ex-Black Elk CEO Gets Deal Canceling 2nd Platinum Trial
Former Black Elk CEO Jeffrey Shulse has dodged an impending trial over his alleged involvement in a scheme to let hedge fund Platinum Partners defraud the company's bondholders, scoring a deferred prosecution deal that further shrinks the troubled case.
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December 19, 2019
The Biggest White Collar Cases Of 2019
From men on the periphery of a presidential scandal to rich parents bribing their kids' way into college, 2019 was rife with headline-grabbing white collar cases, even while prosecutors suffered defeat in some of their most complicated fraud trials. Here, Law360 looks back at a few of the biggest white collar rulings of 2019.
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November 15, 2019
Recently Reversed: How J&J, Avis & LG Toppled Big Verdicts
Johnson & Johnson's escape from a $110 million verdict in Missouri and the overturning of a pair of federal fraud convictions in New York highlight this edition of Law360's recurring look at recently reversed trial verdicts.
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October 08, 2019
Feds Ask To Delay Next Platinum Trial While Appeal Plays Out
Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a New York federal judge to delay the upcoming bond fraud trial of a former Platinum Partners managing director pending their expected appeal of the judge's ruling that gave a new trial to the hedge fund's co-founder and acquitted another executive.
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October 04, 2019
Platinum Prosecutors To Appeal Acquittal, New Trial Orders
Brooklyn federal prosecutors indicated Friday they plan to appeal a ruling that tossed the convictions of two former executives at defunct hedge fund Platinum Partners, a ruling in which the judge found it would be a "manifest injustice" not to grant one man an acquittal and the other a new trial.
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September 27, 2019
Ex-Platinum Exec Acquitted, Co-Founder Gets New Trial
A New York federal judge on Friday acquitted a former Platinum Partners executive who had been convicted of defrauding bondholders in an oil and gas company and ruled that a second defendant, the defunct hedge fund's co-founder, will get a new trial.
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August 21, 2019
Feds Rip Platinum Bids To Dodge Fraud Raps Post-Trial
Prosecutors on Wednesday urged a New York federal judge to reject attempts by two former Platinum Partners executives to overturn their convictions for defrauding bondholders in one of the defunct hedge fund's oil and gas portfolio companies, ripping their arguments as "inflammatory baseless allegations."