United States
Jenner & Block
Marcus Childress sat down with CNN's Laura Coates to discuss the verdict in the 14th Amendment case against former President Donald Trump in Colorado.
Perkins Coie LLP
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review an apparent circuit split over how long after a criminal conviction the United States can forfeit a criminal defendant's property.
Pryor Cashman LLP
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), published a declination letter on November 16, 2023, that provides valuable information concerning the potential benefits of self-reporting bribery to the DOJ.
Gray Reed & McGraw
Since the birth of the U.S. tax system more than a century ago, taxpayers have made purposeful attempts to avoid paying taxes that they lawfully owe. In a standard case, a taxpayer...
Cullen and Dykman
Yesterday, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Clean Slate Act (S.7551A/A.1029C), which will automatically seal some criminal convictions after a certain passage of time from either imposition of sentence...
Arnold & Porter
In 2017, Aegerion Pharmaceuticals agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor misbranding violations and paid more than US$35 million to resolve criminal and civil liability relating to patient and reimbursement support and the promotion of its cholesterol drug, Juxtapid.
Venable LLP
In SEC v. Govil, No. 22-1658, 2023 WL 7137291 (2d Cir. Oct. 31, 2023), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit made clear that, in the Second Circuit, the disgorgement remedy...
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
As we embark on the 15th anniversary of Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, Buchanan was proud to partner with FTI Consulting for a special panel discussion.
WilmerHale
In this op-ed published in The New York Times, Partner Preet Bharara discusses the legal double standard of closure. Only the famous and powerful receive a notice from the Department of Justice...
Bass, Berry & Sims
Two recent opinions released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) serve as a reminder that even under the strictly enforced Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Highlights from October 2023 include a new M&A safe harbor
policy from the DOJ, an extradition to Malaysia in the 1MDB saga...
Perkins Coie LLP
On November 1, 2023, significant amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines went into effect after Congress took no action to veto the proposed amendments.
Arnold & Porter
Last month, the Cleveland Museum of Art (the Museum) mounted a rare legal challenge to an attempt by the New York County District Attorney's Office (DANY)...
Eckland & Blando
Recently, I won a motion to dismiss establishing that the NJCFA, while broad, does not extend to and cover estoppel agreements for factoring relationships brought by the account debtor as a party to the estoppel agreement.
WilmerHale
After a laborious passage through the United Kingdom Parliament, the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act (the Act) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Director of the UK Serious...
Barnes & Thornburg
When parallel civil enforcement investigations or third-party lawsuits occur concurrently with criminal cases, the government will take full advantage of the information-sharing opportunities they provide.
Reed Smith
Our best college era summer job was working as a staffer for the New Jersey State Senate. The Abscam investigation was ongoing, and it seemed that every week there'd be another empty seat...
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
On Oct. 25, 2023, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) voted 6-1 to release a proposed rule to lower the cap on debit card interchange fees in Regulation II.
McGuireWoods LLP
September was an active month for Ponzi litigation with nearly a dozen new complaints filed alleging fraudulent investment activity.
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
In August 2023, the U.S. Sentencing Commission announced that it would allow for the retroactive application of Amendment 821, which provides (in Part B)