A compliance monitor’s report filed in connection with a Justice Department’s deferred prosecution case against HSBC Bank must be unsealed, a federal judge has ruled.
Granting a pro se application, Eastern District Judge John Gleeson on Thursday said the report was “a judicial record, and that the public has a First Amendment right” to see it. He rejected arguments by the U.S. Department of Justice and the bank that the report stay out of the public domain.
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