White Collar Crime

  • New York Law Journal

    SDNY Takes New Tone on Judicial Assignment in Insider Trading Case

    By Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith | June 16, 2017

    Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith write that a high-profile insider trading prosecution, currently pending in the Southern District of New York, has yielded the first indications that the tide may have turned against a questionable prosecutorial practice of using superseding indictments to channel certain criminal cases around the district's system of random judicial assignment.

  • New York Law Journal

    Former Swiss Banker Pleads to FIFA-Connected Scheme

    By B Colby Hamilton | June 15, 2017

    An Argentinian national who worked for Swiss banks admitted to his role in bribing international soccer officials, as the sprawling investigation in FIFA corruption continues in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District.

  • New York Law Journal

    Federal Judge Grants Sweeping Suppression Motion in Wey Fraud Case

    By B. Colby Hamilton | June 14, 2017

    A Manhattan federal judge granted a sweeping suppression motion in the government's fraud case against financier Benjamin Wey Tuesday, siding with the defendant over Fourth Amendment concerns in a significant setback to federal prosecutors.

  • New York Law Journal

    Baroni, Convicted in Bridgegate Scheme, Loses NY License

    By Michael Booth | June 14, 2017

    A state appellate panel has indefinitely suspended the law license of William Baroni Jr., a former Port Authority official and one of the key figures behind the Bridgegate scandal that helped crush the presidential hopes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

  • New York Law Journal

    Former Herrick Tax Practice Chair Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges

    By B. Colby Hamilton | June 13, 2017

    Harold Levine and a co-defendant pleaded guilty to charges that they failed to report collectively more than $4 million in income, according to the Southern District U.S. Attorney's office.

  • New York Law Journal

    Another Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Tapped for Key SEC Post

    By Christine Simmons | June 9, 2017

    Sullivan & Cromwell saw another of its own chosen this week to serve in the Trump administration, as partner Steven Peikin was named a co-director of enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alongside former Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner Stephanie Avakian, now the division's acting director.

  • Daily Report Online

    Trump Tweets: King & Spalding Lawyer to Head FBI

    By Katheryn Hayes Tucker and Katelyn Polantz | June 8, 2017

    President Donald Trump tweeted his choice for the new FBI director Wednesday morning – former prosecutor Christopher Wray, now with Atlanta's King & Spalding.

  • New York Law Journal

    Supreme Court Ruling Set to Shake Up SEC Enforcement Landscape

    By B. Colby Hamilton | June 8, 2017

    Both regulators and financial litigators can expect to see cases moving rapidly through the courts in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kokesh v. Securities and Exchange Commission, observers say.

  • New York Law Journal

    The Significance of 'U.S. v. Blaszczak' for Insider Trading Prosecutions

    By Antonia M. Apps | June 8, 2017

    Antonia M. Apps writes that recent charges brought in the Southern District against a "political intelligence" consultant, the government employee who had been his alleged source of inside information, and three hedge fund analysts whom he tipped marks the second time the government has brought insider trading charges against a "political intelligence" consultant. The case also signals that the government is confident that the recent Supreme Court decision in 'Salman v. United States' has overruled the Second Circuit's personal benefit holding in 'Newman' in its entirety.

  • New York Law Journal

    The Hon. Reich v. Lopez

    By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | June 6, 2017

    RICO Claims Against Energy Firm's Principals Properly Dismissed; Predicate Acts Insufficient

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