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Connecticut Law Tribune

Norm Pattis: Lawyer Belatedly Realizes That The Government Lies

I've never understood why some criminal defense lawyers feel the need to make a great public display about how they only represent those whom they believe are truly innocent. There's a self-indulgent, almost moralistic quality to such declarations that render the lawyers untrustworthy. And hence my problem with Sidney Powell's otherwise excellent book, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice (Brown. 2014).
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Kansas Gun Dealer, Glock Execs Face Indictment

A Kansas firearms distributor and two high-ranking officials with Glock Inc. are among five people indicted by a federal grand jury on charges involving bribes and kickbacks to gain preferential treatment.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Boies Partner Tanya Chutkan Confirmed as Federal Trial Judge

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner Tanya Chutkan to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
2 minute read

Daily Business Review

3rd DCA Sides With Ex-Mayor In Beef With Suspended Mayor

The Third DCA says former North Miami Mayor Kevin Burns can challenge the residency of suspended Mayor Lucie Tondreau.
2 minute read

Litigation Daily

Ex-ArthroCare Execs Convicted of Fraud

A federal jury in Austin convicted former ArthroCare CEO Michael Baker and former CFO Michael Gluk of inflating financials at the surgical device company.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

The Morning Wrap

A round-up of news from ALM affiliated publications and news outlets around the country: a Florida judge assaults a public defender on courtroom video, the Environmental Protection Agency rule will spark lawsuits, and an insider trader sentenced to prison.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Revisiting Criminal Insider Trading Liability

In their White-Collar Crime column, Robert J. Anello and Richard F. Albert discuss whether in an insider trading case the government must prove that the inside information at issue was a substantial factor in the defendant's trading activities, an issue that is the the first question raised in Raj Rajaratnam's petition seeking review of his conviction by the U.S. Supreme Court.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters Welfare Fund v. Cephalon, Inc. PICS Case No. 14-0850 (E.D. Pa. May 21, 2014) Bartle, J. (25 pages).

RICO Mail and Wire Fraud • Fed.R.Civ.P. 9(b)
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Co-Defendant Sentenced in KPMG Insider-Trading Scheme

The golfing buddy of a former KPMG LLP senior partner in Los Angeles was sentenced to five months in prison for making about $1.6 million in stock trades from insider tips.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

New Twist in Case of Alleged Banamex Fraud

The fallout continued to spread last week in the wake an investigation into a $400 million bank fraud tied to Citigroup's Mexican Banamex unit.
2 minute read

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