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Nelson Mullins Nabs A New White-Collar Leader

Bart Daniel, a former top federal prosecutor in South Carolina, has closed up his own solo shop in Charleston to join Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a litigation partner and co-head of the firm's white-collar crime and government investigations group.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Yanchukov v. Finskiy

RICO Act Cross-Claims Dismissed; Foreign Parties Failed to Allege Domestic Injury
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FIFA's First Compliance Chief Helping to Get It Back in the Game

Edward Hanover, FIFA's first-ever chief compliance officer, speaks exclusively to Corporate Counsel about his job.
23 minute read

International Edition

FRC executive counsel set to join King & Spalding in London

Gareth Rees QC to join the US firm as a partner in the coming months
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC Drops Securities Fraud Suit Against Benjamin Wey

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it, too, was dropping its case against Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey, in the face of a sweeping evidence suppression order in the criminal suit against Wey.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

The 'Right to Control' Theory in Mail and Wire Fraud Prosecutions

White-Collar Crime columnists Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack discuss SDNY Judge Loretta Preska's recent decision in 'United States v. Davis', in which she analyzed the Second Circuit's "right to control" decisions and concluded that a guilty verdict should be set aside. The authors then address practical steps defense counsel can take when facing a mail or wire fraud prosecution premised on this sometimes elusive doctrine.
23 minute read

National Law Journal

NLRB Takes on Tesla, Cordray Mum About Plans: Roundup

Our latest weekly roundup of big news on the regulatory and compliance front, featuring: NLRB takes on Tesla for alleged unfair labor practices. Prosecutors open an early inquiry into whether Uber violated foreign-bribery laws. Richard Cordray, the CFPB director, isn't opening up about any plans to leave the agency before his term expires in July. Home Depot's big settlement with product-safety regulators portends changes at the agency, and lawyers for Google this week told EU regulators how the company will comply with an order requiring it to stop giving improper preference.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Remote Employee in NJ Charged With Stealing $243,000 From Apple

A grand jury in New Jersey has indicted a former Apple employee on charges that she embezzled $243,000 while working remotely for the California-based tech giant.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

'U.S. v. Martoma': The End of the 'Newman' Personal Benefit Test

Antonia M. Apps analyzes the Second Circuit's decision in 'U.S. v. Martoma', where the court held that the gloss of a "meaningfully close personal relationship" as part of the personal benefit test was "no longer good law," and that liability requires the government to prove that the tipper expected the tippee would trade on the information and the tip "resembled trading by the insider followed by a gift of the profits" to the tippee.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

USA v. American International Group, Inc.

FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Firm's 'Infiltration' By Mafia Dismissed as Frivolous, Baseless
2 minute read

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