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Trump Administration Focus on Opioids Reflected in DOJs Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Action

In what the U.S. Department of Justice called on Thursday the largest health care fraud enforcement action in the agency's history, more than 400 defendants nationwide have been charged with defrauding taxpayers of $1.3 billion.
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New York Law Journal

Silver Corruption Conviction Overturned by Second Circuit

Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conviction on corruption charges was overturned by a federal appeals court Thursday morning. Southern District U.S. Attorney Joon Kim has already announced the office will retry the case.
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New York Law Journal

Observers: Boyland and Silver Cases Hinged on Jury Instruction Objections

In less than a week, the Second Circuit delivered two clear applications of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark public corruption case, 'United States v. McDonnell.' The results for two former state assemblymen could not have been more different.
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National Law Journal

Trump Administration Focus on Opioids Reflected in DOJ's Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Action

The DOJ has brought its largest health care fraud enforcement action ever with more than 400 defendants charged nationwide.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Ex-Lawyer Sentenced to 41-Month Prison Term in Boiler-Room Mortgage Scheme

A former lawyer in Long Beach has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his roles in a mortgage modification scheme which posed as a successful law firm.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Linklaters Associate Is Latest Big Firm Lawyer Tied to Insider Trading Charges

Fei Yan, 31, was arrested on Wednesday on insider trading charges in a case that alleges he profited from knowledge garnered by his wife, a Linklaters associate working on M&A deals.
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New York Law Journal

14 Indicted in Multistate Pump-and-Dump Scheme

A pump-and-dump sting that stretched from New York to San Diego netted 14 in connection with an alleged $147 million stock manipulation scheme, the Eastern District U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

What the Election-Law Camp Is Saying About Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails

Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for Donald Trump Jr., said the disclosure of his client's emails about Russia's work to share dirt on Hillary Clinton was "much ado about nothing." Comments from veteran election law attorneys, however, suggest otherwise—or at least raise more questions for Special Counsel Robert Mueller III's team. What follows is a snapshot of some of what lawyers are telling us and saying around the web about the legal significance of the newly disclosed emails.
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International Edition

'He's in the top 10% of the top 1%' - $9.2m pay packet puts King & Spalding partner in the spotlight

Where does King & Spalding's Christopher Wray - Trump's nominee for FBI director - rank among the best-paid partners in the US?
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Applying 'McDonnell,' Circuit Affirms Ex-Assemblyman's Public Corruption Conviction

With the convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos on appeal before the circuit, the ruling upholding the conviction of William Boyland Jr. is expected to play less of a role as precedent than as an example of the circuit committing to reviews of the facts of each case specifically to determine what, if any, of the U.S. Supreme Court's public corruption precedent should be applied.
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