By Katelyn Polantz | June 16, 2017
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By Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith | June 16, 2017
Jonathan Bach and Reed A. Smith write that a high-profile insider trading prosecution, currently pending in the Southern District of New York, has yielded the first indications that the tide may have turned against a questionable prosecutorial practice of using superseding indictments to channel certain criminal cases around the district's system of random judicial assignment.
By B Colby Hamilton | June 15, 2017
An Argentinian national who worked for Swiss banks admitted to his role in bribing international soccer officials, as the sprawling investigation in FIFA corruption continues in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District.
By Cheryl Miller | June 15, 2017
Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson resigned from office Wednesday, shortly before he pleaded no contest to a felony perjury charge. He was the first district attorney in decades to face removal from office in a proceeding initiated by a civil grand jury. In recent years, a number of elected prosecutors have found themselves under serious professional scrutiny.
By Sue Reisinger | June 15, 2017
The world's leading meat processor, JBS SA, is bringing on some new legal and compliance help as it grapples with scandal.
By Ross Todd | June 15, 2017
The lawsuit brings claims of sexual harassment and intentional infliction of emotional harm against Eichler as well as the bank and its investment arm where he worked, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Inc.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 14, 2017
A Manhattan federal judge granted a sweeping suppression motion in the government's fraud case against financier Benjamin Wey Tuesday, siding with the defendant over Fourth Amendment concerns in a significant setback to federal prosecutors.
By Katelyn Polantz | June 14, 2017
Michael W. Dreeben, a designer of high-end furniture in Chicago, confirmed this week that he—not the Michael Dreeben tapped to assist Russia special counsel Robert Mueller—was behind past donations to Democratic candidates.
By Michael Booth | June 14, 2017
A state appellate panel has indefinitely suspended the law license of William Baroni Jr., a former Port Authority official and one of the key figures behind the Bridgegate scandal that helped crush the presidential hopes of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
By B. Colby Hamilton | June 13, 2017
Harold Levine and a co-defendant pleaded guilty to charges that they failed to report collectively more than $4 million in income, according to the Southern District U.S. Attorney's office.
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