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March 07, 2025
For Many Biden Clemency Grantees, Freedom Is On Hold
Former President Joe Biden set records when he granted approximately 2,500 people clemency at the end of his term, but the process of getting out of prison for those people has not been so straightforward and two months later, a majority remain in custody.
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March 07, 2025
Trump DOJ's Shift Threatens To Upend Police Reform
As the Trump administration abandons consent decrees — court-ordered agreements designed to curb police misconduct — experts warn that a crucial mechanism for law enforcement accountability is disappearing.
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March 07, 2025
Ex-Santos Staffer Gets 1 Year For Fundraising Fraud
A former staffer for expelled U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Friday after pleading guilty to posing as a top aide to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to solicit donations.
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March 07, 2025
Husband Of Ex-Takeda VP Gets 2½ Years For Invoice Scam
The husband of a former Takeda Pharmaceuticals vice president was sentenced in Massachusetts federal court Friday to two and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to dupe the drug giant out of $2.3 million through bogus invoices.
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March 07, 2025
Ex-Olympian Added To FBI Most Wanted List, $10M Reward
The FBI has placed former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, on its ten most wanted list with a $10 million reward for his alleged role in running a drug enterprise and ordering several murders, according to a statement from the agency.
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March 07, 2025
DOJ Cites SDNY Prosecutors' Texts In Bid To End Adams Case
President Donald Trump's Justice Department doubled down Friday on its bid to toss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing newly released internal correspondence showing "troubling conduct" by Southern District of New York prosecutors the agency criticized as "careerist" and insubordinate.
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March 07, 2025
Investment Adviser Charged In 2-Year Client Swindle Scheme
Federal prosecutors in Chicago have charged a suburban investment adviser with wire fraud for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from clients by convincing them to invest in nonexistent business opportunities.
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March 07, 2025
'Exhausted' Jury To Deliberate 3rd Week In Judge Murder Trial
A California state jury was told to come back Monday for a third calendar week of deliberations over whether Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson intentionally shot his wife in 2023, after reporting that they were "exhausted" but had "further movement" toward a verdict.
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March 07, 2025
DOJ Indicts 2 In Connection With Crypto Site Takedown
The U.S. Department of Justice said Friday it seized website domains and froze assets tied to Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, alleging in a criminal case against two operators that it violated sanctions and helped terrorist groups and other international crime organizations launder money.
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March 07, 2025
Calif. Atty, Reality TV Hopeful Gets 5 Years For Client Theft
A California lawyer who claimed to be developing a Bravo TV show about himself has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for looting his firm's client trust accounts, an offense that appears to be only one tentacle of "a larger criminal scheme."
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March 07, 2025
Conn. Atty Convicted Of Manslaughter In Parking Lot Shooting
A Connecticut jury on Friday convicted a Cramer & Anderson LLP partner of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a man who followed him to his Litchfield law firm's parking lot and attacked the lawyer as he exited his car.
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March 07, 2025
Judge Upholds Denial Of Class Cert. For 'Bridgegate' Drivers
A New Jersey federal judge has refused to disturb his 2023 denial of class certification for George Washington Bridge travelers who claimed the infamous "Bridgegate" traffic jam violated their constitutional rights, ruling that the plaintiffs' arguments were already considered and found to be immaterial to the case.
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March 07, 2025
2nd Circ. Backs Warrantless Utility Pole Surveillance
The Second Circuit on Friday ruled that police using cameras mounted to utility poles to observe potential criminal activity without a warrant does not amount to an illegal search under the Fourth Amendment, comporting with other circuits that have pondered the same issue.
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March 07, 2025
Ga. Court Urged To Weigh Genealogy Of Wife Killed By Ex-Atty
The administrator of the estate of a woman killed by a former BigLaw attorney is urging a Georgia state court to reject the woman's godson's assertion that her cousins aren't her relatives, arguing that a genealogy report proves they are her family in the dispute over the proceeds from a wrongful-death suit settlement.
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March 07, 2025
DOJ's Criminal Division Chief Of Staff Moves To Pillsbury
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has hired the former acting chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Justice's Criminal Division, who is joining the firm in Washington, D.C., as counsel to work on corporate investigations and white collar defense matters.
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March 07, 2025
Accused $31M Tech Support Fraudster Extradited From Spain
A Dubai resident has been extradited from Spain to appear in North Carolina federal court for allegedly running a $31.2 million scam using fake error screens on victims' computers to trick them into paying for needless tech support services, acting U.S. Attorney Lawrence J. Cameron announced Friday.
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March 07, 2025
Menendez Co-Defendant Gets 3 Years In NJ Bank Fraud Case
The former Mariner's Bank chief executive who was convicted alongside former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in a blockbuster bribery indictment was sentenced Friday in a separate bank fraud case to three years and one month in prison to run concurrently with his seven-year sentence in the Menendez case.
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March 07, 2025
Jailed Developer Dropped From RICO Foreclosure Suit
A Michigan federal judge dropped a developer from a suit alleging a racketeering scheme stripped homeowners of their foreclosed homes' surplus equity, finding the harm they allege is not tied closely enough to a bribery scheme the developer later pled guilty to.
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March 07, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen an Iranian oil company sued for $95 million, Betfred hit with a lawsuit from a property company and NHS England face a human rights claim brought by a man detained under the Mental Health Act for over 20 years. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 07, 2025
Goldstein Must Be Tracked Amid 'Ongoing' Crimes, Feds Say
The federal government has doubled down on allegations that U.S. Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein has been secretly moving cryptocurrency, urging a federal judge to keep monitoring his electronic devices to prevent him from fleeing tax evasion charges.
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March 07, 2025
Retrial In Landmark Graft Case Faces Potential Roadblocks
A retrial in a public corruption case tied to an infrastructure initiative under former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faces possible obstacles after being returned to a federal judge by the U.S. Supreme Court, with the parties awaiting further legal guidance from the justices and the defense saying the Trump administration's priorities may sink the case.
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March 07, 2025
How A Showcase Prosecution Collapsed For New Jersey's AG
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin took a risk that backfired when he used over 100 pages to lay out his case accusing George E. Norcross III, one of the Garden State's most influential businessmen, of leading a racketeering enterprise to deepen his commercial footprint in a struggling city.
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March 06, 2025
Trump Executive Order Creates 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve'
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order establishing a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" that White House crypto czar David Sacks said would hold Bitcoin forfeited in criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings.
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March 06, 2025
Diddy Threatened Employees, Feds Say In New Indictment
Manhattan federal prosecutors on Thursday filed a new indictment in the sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, revealing new details about the hip-hop mogul's alleged practices of forcing his employees to work long hours, while subjecting them to physical and psychological harm.
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March 06, 2025
Frank Wanted Artificial Data To Ensure $175M Deal, Jury Told
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. engineering executive on Thursday told a Manhattan federal jury that Frank founder Charlie Javice and her deputy asked him to produce artificial data for millions of purported users of the education company's services, in order to induce the bank into buying the startup for $175 million.
Expert Analysis
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What Companies Should Consider During FCPA Pause
While waiting for updated guidance on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act criminal investigations after a Feb. 10 executive order froze FCPA enforcement, companies should consider the implications of several possible policy shifts, rather than relaxing internal oversight of questionable business practices, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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How Criminal Enforcement Of Trump Tariffs May Work
While tariff enforcement has traditionally been handled as a civil matter, tariffs are central to President Donald Trump's broader economic, immigration and national security agendas — making it likely that the U.S. Department of Justice will be tasked with criminal enforcement of tariff evasion, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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Preparing For Stricter Anti-Boycott Enforcement Under Trump
Given the complexity of U.S. anti-boycott regulations and the likelihood of stepped-up enforcement under the new administration, companies should consider adopting risk-based anti-boycott compliance programs that include training employees to recognize and assess potential boycott requests, and to report them expeditiously when necessary, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Opinion
New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions
First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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What Day 1 Bondi Memos Mean For Corporate Compliance
After Attorney General Pam Bondi’s flurry of memos last week declaring new enforcement priorities on issues ranging from foreign bribery to diversity initiatives, companies must base their compliance programs on an understanding of their own core values and principles, says Hui Chen at CDE Advisors.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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Perspectives
DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol
The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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Managing Transatlantic Antitrust Investigations And Litigation
As transatlantic competition regulators cooperate more closely and European antitrust investigations increasingly spark follow-up civil suits in the U.S., companies must understand how to simultaneously juggle high-stakes multigovernment investigations and manage the risks of expensive new claims across jurisdictions, say lawyers at Paul Weiss.
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Cos. Must Prepare For Heightened Trade Enforcement Risks
Recent trade enforcement cases — including criminal prosecutions for tariff evasion — as well as statements from the Trump administration make it clear that companies must assess their risk profiles, review compliance programs and communication policies, and consider protocols for responding to subpoenas, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Engaging With Feds On Threats To Executives, Employees
In an increasingly polarized environment, where companies face serious concerns about how to protect executives and employees, counsel should consider working with federal law enforcement soon after the discovery of threats or harassment, says Jordan Estes at Gibson Dunn.