White Collar

  • October 16, 2024

    Davis Wright Grows In SF With Ex-Prosecutor From Boutique

    A former federal prosecutor and experienced trial lawyer who co-founded boutique Long & Stout PC brought his practice to Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in San Francisco.

  • October 16, 2024

    Combs Asks To ID His Accusers, Citing 'Media Circus'

    Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has asked a Manhattan federal judge to identify the accusers behind his sex-trafficking and racketeering case, claiming the "media circus" surrounding the prosecution and related civil suits has made it impossible for him to develop an adequate defense.

  • October 16, 2024

    'Fat Leonard' Faces 11 Years For Navy Bribery Scheme

    Federal prosecutors are seeking more than 11 years in prison for Leonard Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor and ex-fugitive known as "Fat Leonard" who led a sprawling bribery and corruption scheme that allegedly caused over $20 million in losses for the U.S. Navy.

  • October 16, 2024

    2 SDNY Terror Finance Cases Against Binance Stay Separate

    Two suits claiming Binance unlawfully fostered terrorist activity, filed in the wake of the cryptocurrency platform's $4.3 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, will proceed separately in the Southern District of New York, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday.

  • October 16, 2024

    RTX To Pay $1B For Qatari Bribes And Defrauding US Gov't

    RTX Corp. and its Raytheon subsidiary have agreed to pay approximately $1 billion and enter into two separate deferred prosecution agreements in connection with a bribery scheme to secure Qatari military contracts, as well as separate ploys to defraud the U.S. government in deals for Patriot missile and radar systems.

  • October 16, 2024

    Ex-BigLaw Partner Gets 16 Months For Tax Evasion

    A former partner at Husch Blackwell LLP and Dykema Gossett PLLC who pled guilty to refusing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income was sentenced to 16 months in prison.

  • October 16, 2024

    US Fails To Revoke Bail Of Crypto Chief Wanted In Fraud Case

    The U.S. government failed on Wednesday to keep the former chief executive of a $7.5 billion crypto-asset business in custody while he fights extradition for allegedly manipulating the market for his company's virtual tokens, as a judge deemed him a low flight risk.

  • October 15, 2024

    Boeing Judge Wants DEI Monitor Pick Info Before Plea Ruling

    The Texas federal judge overseeing prosecutors' criminal case against The Boeing Co. on Tuesday said he needs more information on a provision of the proposed plea deal regarding how the U.S. Department of Justice would select an independent monitor in compliance with the agency's diversity and inclusion policies.

  • October 15, 2024

    CFPB Funding Shouldn't Stop Texas' Fraud Suit, Judge Says

    A Houston federal magistrate judge has endorsed allowing the state of Texas to proceed with a real estate fraud suit against land developer Colony Ridge, rejecting objections tied in part to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding from Federal Reserve "earnings."

  • October 15, 2024

    Chicago Wants To Ditch $50M Wrongful Conviction Verdict

    Chicago is asking a federal judge to overrule a jury that awarded $50 million to an innocent man wrongly convicted of first-degree murder, saying officers who allegedly coerced the man's confession are immune.

  • October 15, 2024

    Combs Hit With Slew Of Assault Suits Dating Back To 1995

    Sean "Diddy" Combs was hit with six new lawsuits in Manhattan federal court Monday, alleging that for decades the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted women, men and minors at parties and other events, including one woman who says he raped her at a promotional party for a Notorious B.I.G. music video.

  • October 15, 2024

    Exec's $77M WeWork Offer Was Stupid, Not Fraud, Jury Told

    Counsel for the former CEO of real estate investment firm Arciterra told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday his client was a fool for making what prosecutors described as a fake $77 million tender offer for a controlling stake in WeWork before its bankruptcy, but he wasn't trying to falsely pump up the coworking company's stock price.

  • October 15, 2024

    Crypto Huckster Slammed With 20 Years For Forcount Fraud

    A New York federal judge on Tuesday sentenced an Ecuadorean man from Florida to 20 years in prison for pushing the $14 million, international Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme on his fellow Latinos over five years, saying he caused incalculable damage.

  • October 15, 2024

    Transport Monopoly Judge Accepts Antitrust Guilty Plea

    A Texas federal judge has accepted a guilty plea from one of a dozen individuals in an antitrust case whom the government accused of using violence and intimidation to monopolize cross-border sales of used vehicles and other goods from the U.S. to Central America.

  • October 15, 2024

    SafeMoon Execs Can't Beat Fraud Charges Now, Feds Say

    The crypto executives behind the alleged SafeMoon fraud can't claim their conduct was beyond the reach of U.S. courts at this stage of litigation, federal prosecutors said in a brief that pushed back on the executives' bid to dismiss the indictment.

  • October 15, 2024

    Navajo President Asks Vice President To Resign From Office

    Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has asked Vice President Richelle Montoya to resign from her position, arguing that her efforts backing a recent petition led by the tribe's former human resources director to recall him from office is the second-in-command's "formal break" from his administration.

  • October 15, 2024

    SEC Says Robot Co.'s AI Caretaker Was Mostly A Dummy

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued a robotics and artificial intelligence startup and its founder in Florida federal court Tuesday, accusing them of misleading investors about the company's ability to develop an AI-infused hologram and a robot to help families with childcare and other tasks.

  • October 15, 2024

    No New Trial For Bid-Rigging, Price-Fixing Concrete Bros.

    A Georgia federal judge refused Tuesday to grant a new trial to a pair of brothers convicted in July for their role in a scheme fixing prices, rigging bids and carving up the coastal Georgia ready-mix concrete market, finding no jury confusion in witness testimony about antitrust compliance training.

  • October 15, 2024

    Justices Won't Look Into Avenatti's Identity Theft Conviction

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider whether the Second Circuit used an incorrect standard when ruling that identity theft played a "key role" in celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti's forging of ex-client Stormy Daniels' name and signature, upholding the disbarred lawyer's aggravated identity theft conviction.

  • October 15, 2024

    No 'Third Bite' For Ex-Lender's FDIC Suit, Judge Rules

    A D.C. federal judge has tossed a lawsuit from a former small business financier contesting the constitutionality of a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. enforcement action against him, saying the plaintiff has already twice litigated and lost the case in Rhode Island.

  • October 15, 2024

    Ex-FCA Exec's Wife Must Turn Over Notes In GM RICO Suit

    A Michigan state judge said Tuesday that the wife of a former Fiat Chrysler executive accused of participating in a bribery scheme must turn over notes she took about their conversations, ruling that a state law protecting spouses from testifying against each other only applies to in-court testimony.

  • October 15, 2024

    Justices Mull RICO's Scope In Trucker's CBD Case

    U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared conflicted whether to sanction a commercial trucker's attempt to bring a racketeering claim against CBD companies, whose allegedly mislabeled products the trucker claims led to his firing.

  • October 15, 2024

    Mich. Judge Unsure If PE Firm's Loan Broke Usury Law

    The interest rate on a private equity firm's loan to a Detroit house-flipping venture exceeded usury limits, but it was unclear whether the lender knowingly charged an excessive rate, a Michigan state judge ruled after the case returned from a trip to the Michigan Supreme Court. 

  • October 15, 2024

    Ga. Fund Manager Who Fled Country Cops To Fraud Charge

    An Atlanta financier admitted Tuesday to running a fund that ripped off investors to the tune of millions of dollars before fleeing the country as the scheme collapsed, pleading guilty to a single charge of interstate transfers of stolen money, prosecutors said.

  • October 15, 2024

    Feds Cut Whistleblowers Out Of Kickback Deal, Court Told

    Whistleblowers who accused a medical device company of a kickback scheme said Tuesday that the government left them out to dry when it settled False Claims Act claims with surgeons for $3.3 million and refused to share any of it with them.

Expert Analysis

  • Avoiding Legal Ethics Landmines In Preindictment Meetings

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    U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's recent bribery conviction included obstruction charges based on his former lawyer's preindictment presentation to prosecutors, highlighting valuable lessons on the legal ethics rules implicated in these kinds of defense presentations, say Steve Miller and Hilary Gerzhoy at HWG.

  • Series

    Being A Luthier Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    When I’m not working as an appellate lawyer, I spend my spare time building guitars — a craft known as luthiery — which has helped to enhance the discipline, patience and resilience needed to write better briefs, says Rob Carty at Nichols Brar.

  • Lead Like 'Ted Lasso' By Embracing Cognitive Diversity

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    The Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso” aptly illustrates how embracing cognitive diversity can be a winning strategy for teams, providing a useful lesson for law firms, which can benefit significantly from fresh, diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.

  • 3 Areas Of Enforcement Risk Facing The EV Industry

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    Companies in the EV manufacturing ecosystem are experiencing a boom in business, but with this boom comes increased regulatory and enforcement risks, from the corruption issues that have historically pervaded the extractive sector to newer risks posed by artificial intelligence, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • Boeing Plea Deal Is A Mixed Bag, Providing Lessons For Cos.

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    The plea deal for conspiracy to defraud regulators that Boeing has tentatively agreed to will, on the one hand, probably help the company avoid further reputational damage, but also demonstrates to companies that deferred prosecution agreements have real teeth, and that noncompliance with DPA terms can be costly, says Edmund Vickers at Red Lion Chambers.

  • Justices' Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review

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    Each of the 11 criminal decisions issued in the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently concluded term is independently important, but taken together, they reveal trends in the court’s broader approach to criminal law, presenting both pitfalls and opportunities for defendants and their counsel, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • 25 Years Of OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention

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    Marking its 25th anniversary this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery convention has advanced legislative reforms and reshaped corporate conduct in dozens of countries amid the persistent challenges of uneven enforcement and political pressure, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Challenging Prosecutors' Use Of Defendants' Jail Phone Calls

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    Although it’s an uphill battle under current case law, counsel for pretrial detainees may be able to challenge prosecutors’ use of jail-recorded phone calls between the defendant and their attorney by taking certain advance measures, say Jim McLoughlin and Fielding Huseth at Moore & Van Allen.

  • 3 Policyholder Tips After Calif. Ruling Denying D&O Coverage

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    A California decision from June, Practice Fusion v. Freedom Specialty Insurance, denying a company's claim seeking reimbursement under a directors and officers insurance policy for its settlement with the Justice Department, highlights the importance of coordinating coverage for all operational risks and the danger of broad exclusionary policy language, says Geoffrey Fehling at Hunton.

  • Playing The Odds: Probing Sports Betting Allegations

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    With gambling-related controversies becoming a mainstay of the athletics landscape, it's essential for in-house and outside counsel to stay abreast of best practices for conducting sports betting investigations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Opinion

    Now More Than Ever, Lawyers Must Exhibit Professionalism

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    As society becomes increasingly fractured and workplace incivility is on the rise, attorneys must champion professionalism and lead by example, demonstrating how lawyers can respectfully disagree without being disagreeable, says Edward Casmere at Norton Rose.

  • What FTX Case Taught Us About Digital Asset Recoverability

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    FTX's Chapter 11 plan has drawn lots of attention, but the focus should be on the anticipated outcome for investors, which counters several myths about digital currencies, innovation and recoverability, says Kyla Curley at StoneTurn.

  • 'Outsourcing' Ruling, 5 Years On: A Warning, Not A Watershed

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    A New York federal court’s 2019 ruling in U.S. v. Connolly, holding that the government improperly outsourced an investigation to Deutsche Bank, has not undercut corporate cooperation incentives as feared — but companies should not completely ignore the lessons of the case, say Temidayo Aganga-Williams and Anna Nabutovsky at Selendy Gay.

  • Series

    Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.

  • Opinion

    Post-Chevron, Good Riddance To The Sentencing Guidelines

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the Chevron doctrine may signal the end of the U.S. sentencing guidelines, which is good news given that they have accomplished the opposite of Congress’ original intent to bring certainty, proportionality and uniformity to sentencing, say attorneys Mark Allenbaugh, Doug Passon and Alan Ellis.

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