By Elkan Abramowitz and Jonathan Sack | September 1, 2017
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.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 1, 2017
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.
By Michael Booth | August 30, 2017
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.
By Antonia M. Apps | August 30, 2017
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.
By newyorklawjournal | New York Law Journal | August 25, 2017
FCA Qui Tam Suit Alleging Firm's 'Infiltration' By Mafia Dismissed as Frivolous, Baseless
By Sue Reisinger | August 25, 2017
Nearly a decade after the financial crisis, costs related to conduct still continue to cost banks big time.
By Rebecca Cohen | August 23, 2017
King & Spalding has hired white-collar litigation partner Brian Michael in Los Angeles, where he was deputy general counsel at 21st Century Fox and group chief compliance officer at the Fox Networks Group. Michael comes to King & Spalding a week after the firm opened an office in Chicago by adding another ex-federal prosecutor.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 23, 2017
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit found Wednesday that its own prior interpretation of insider trading precedent was "no longer good law" after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last year in 'U.S. v. Salman'.
By Jenna Greene | August 22, 2017
Lawyers from Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher are mounting a full-throated defense of Evan Greebel, a former corporate partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman and Kaye Scholer who faces criminal charges in connection with his work for “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli.
By B. Colby Hamilton | August 22, 2017
The firm at the heart of federal allegations of insider trading on government information on changing Medicare rates has agreed to a $4.6 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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