New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mark Bini, Kaela Dahan and Victoria Jaus | June 26, 2023
Crypto companies, for their part, have complained that it is not clear what digital assets, if any, are securities, and that they have not been given clear regulatory rules of the road.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By William Jay, Charles Brown, Daniel Roeser, Justin D. Ward and William Evans | June 26, 2023
The court's opinion endorses a large body of lower court authority that had come to the same conclusion, and it also makes clear that this tracing requirement applies with full force to Section 11 suits arising from "direct" listings.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mayling Blanco, Katey Fardelmann and Matthew Niss | June 26, 2023
Although government enforcers plainly remain undeterred, reckoning with these thorny legal issues introduces additional complications to any enforcement action. To cut the Gordian knot, New York prosecutors increasingly take a different tack: charging defendants in the cryptocurrency space under neutral statutes that do not require the government to prove that the asset in question is a security or commodity.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Pravin Rao and Gabriel Tong | June 26, 2023
"Controlling person liability" claims have become increasingly common in securities litigation. Due to a circuit split in how these claims can be established, plaintiffs have taken advantage of the relatively low threshold required in some jurisdictions to establish a prima facie case of controlling person liability.
By Jane Wester | June 22, 2023
Documents unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of New York revealed that Rep. George Santos, R-New York, had his father and aunt co-sign his bond…
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joan Vollero | June 22, 2023
It's a bad look for federal prosecutors' offices to add to the spectacle already happening in court, but they also know the power of the court of public opinion, writes a former communications director for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office
By Jane Wester | June 21, 2023
U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert of the Eastern District of New York ordered the unsealing Tuesday afternoon, giving Rep. George Santos approximately 44 hours to potentially "move to modify the conditions of his release, should the suretors seek to withdraw from serving as suretors."
By Abigail Adcox | June 20, 2023
Deborah Curtis will be based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, focusing her practice on national security investigations and defense, and other litigation and enforcement matters.
By Jane Wester | June 16, 2023
Trump removed the case to the Southern District of New York in early May, weeks after he was indicted on 34 counts of falsifying business counts in connection with an alleged scheme to pay hush money to the adult film actress Stormy Daniels. The former president pleaded not guilty.
By Jane Wester | June 16, 2023
Jason Kurland was convicted of wire fraud, honest services wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering at the conclusion of his trial in the Eastern District of New York in summer 2022.
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