Baker & Hostetler and partner John Moscow are out as defense lawyers for real estate companies accused of buying Manhattan real estate to launder proceeds for a group that defrauded the Russian Treasury.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday directed the firm be disqualified from the forfeiture defense in U.S. v. Prevezon, 16-132-cv, because there was a possibility its defense would involve what Moscow and other lawyers learned while representing Hermitage Capital Management Ltd., between 2008 and 2009.
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