By Marcia Coyle | July 14, 2017
Federal prosecutors have taken it on the chin in recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that pushed back against the government's expansive reading of federal criminal laws. The latest setback came Thursday, when a federal appeals court voided the corruption conviction of a once-powerful New York state Assembly speaker. Here's a snapshot of the McDonnell decision and other rulings, four of which were issued by the Roberts Court, that restricted prosecution offices.
By Kristen Rasmussen | July 13, 2017
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.
By Josefa Velasquez and Andrew Denney | July 13, 2017
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.
By B. Colby Hamilton | July 13, 2017
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.
By Kristen Rasmussen | July 13, 2017
The DOJ has brought its largest health care fraud enforcement action ever with more than 400 defendants charged nationwide.
By Ross Todd | July 12, 2017
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.
By Roy Strom | July 12, 2017
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.
By B. Colby Hamilton | July 12, 2017
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.
By Marcia Coyle | July 12, 2017
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.
By B. Colby Hamilton | July 10, 2017
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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