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September 17, 2025
Del. Judge's US Atty Application Plan Draws Blanche's Ire
Delaware's chief district judge, a Trump appointee, is seeking applications for the state's U.S. attorney position to prepare for an upcoming vacancy in the interim position, a move that drew the ire of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday.
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September 17, 2025
Feds Seek Prison Time For 'Pattern' Of Insider Trading
Federal prosecutors urged a Connecticut federal judge to sentence a former Irving Investors LLC trader to prison for illegally pocketing roughly $220,000 through insider trading, saying the length of his scheme and the need to deter others warrant a sentencing that includes a period of incarceration.
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September 17, 2025
Boeing, DOJ Say FAA Fines Don't Sway Conspiracy Case
Boeing and the federal government have told a Texas federal judge that the Federal Aviation Administration's recent proposal to fine Boeing $3.1 million for safety violations shouldn't factor into the 737 Max 8 criminal conspiracy case they're hoping to have wiped from the docket.
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September 17, 2025
Criminal Restitution Fails Defendants, Victims, Report Says
Federal criminal restitution often fails to benefit victims of crime and throws defendants into a "Sisyphean struggle" with debt, with $100 billion in outstanding restitution deemed uncollectable, according to a report released this week by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
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September 17, 2025
Union Settles FCA Suit Over Pandemic Loans for $2M
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 will pay just over $2 million in restitution and interest to settle allegations that it improperly obtained a Paycheck Protection Program loan for which it was not eligible, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston announced Wednesday.
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September 17, 2025
Giuliani Must Pay Attys $1.4M After Missing Bills Claim Fails
A New York state judge has awarded nearly $1.4 million to Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP in its lawsuit accusing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of racking up unpaid legal bills for the firm's work in various criminal, civil and administrative matters.
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September 17, 2025
Colo. Woman Admits To $3.4M Money Laundering Scheme
A Castle Rock woman on Wednesday pled guilty in Colorado federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after she was accused earlier this year by the government of numerous counts of money laundering for stealing more than $3.4 million from people over the internet.
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September 17, 2025
Womble Bond Hires Longtime Clifford Chance Leader In DC
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP has hired a career Clifford Chance LLP lawyer in Washington who served in a number of leadership roles with the firm in his more than 35 years there, including most recently as the global co-head of its risk team and leader of its U.S. regulatory investigations and financial crime group.
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September 17, 2025
Substitute Expert Testimony Is Hearsay, Mass. Justices Rule
Trial prosecutors' use of a state crime lab supervisor to introduce results of drug tests performed by a former subordinate violated the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, the Massachusetts high court said Wednesday, in a decision with potentially far-reaching implications for the use of forensic evidence.
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September 17, 2025
Ex-Pharmacy Tech Gets 20 Mos. For $5M Drug Scheme
A former pharmacy technician was sentenced to 20 months in prison Wednesday for her role in what a Michigan federal judge called an elaborate scheme that led to Medicare and an insurer paying more than $5.6 million for fraudulent prescriptions.
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September 17, 2025
Venezuelan Bondholder Asks 11th Circ. To Revive Suit
The holder of a $43.2 million judgment against Venezuela over defaulted bonds asked the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive its suit seeking to gain control of various Miami properties controlled by a wealthy businessman accused of bribing Venezuelan officials.
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September 17, 2025
CORRECTED: NYC Construction Co. Prez Gets 4 Years For Contract Fraud
The 65-year-old president of a New York City construction company has been sentenced to 48 months in prison after pleading guilty in New York federal court to being part of a fraud scheme involving NYC homeless shelter contracts worth $12 million, the New York City Department of Investigation announced.
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September 16, 2025
Exactech Enters $8M Deal To Resolve Implant Failure Claims
Orthopedic implant-maker Exactech Inc. agreed to pay $8 million to resolve allegations it marketed and sold faulty components of its knee-replacement systems that were to be used on patients on Medicare, Medicaid and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs assistance, federal prosecutors in Maryland and Alabama announced Tuesday.
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September 16, 2025
Ex-Navy Admiral Sentenced To 6 Years In Bribery Case
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former top U.S. Navy admiral to six years behind bars after he was convicted of awarding a government contract to a company in exchange for a lucrative job there after he retired from the military, according to a case docket entry.
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September 16, 2025
Fla. Seafood Wholesaler Exec Cops To Fixing Lobster Prices
The vice president of a Miami-based seafood wholesale company on Tuesday pled guilty in Florida federal court to scheming with competitors to fix the prices paid to fishermen for stone crab claws and spiny lobster.
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September 16, 2025
Feds Seek 12 Years For Frank Founder; She Wants No Prison
The startup founder convicted of lying to JPMorgan Chase so it would buy her college-aid startup, Frank, for $175 million deserves a 12-year prison sentence, Manhattan federal prosecutors argued, countering her request that she serve no time.
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September 16, 2025
Smoke Shop Owners Slam NY Tribe's Sanctions Request
Retailers accused by the Cayuga Nation of running an unsanctioned cannabis shop on tribal land have pushed back on a bid seeking sanctions against them for failing to turn over daily cannabis sales records despite a New York federal court's order to do so, arguing "two wrongs don't make a right."
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September 16, 2025
Strip Club Execs Accused Of Bribing Auditor With Lap Dances
Executives of strip club operator RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. bribed a tax auditor for more than a decade to avoid paying $8 million in New York City sales taxes, providing him free trips to Florida strip clubs and expensive lap dances, the state of New York alleged Tuesday.
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September 16, 2025
Denver Pastor's $3M Crypto Scheme Was Fraud, Judge Says
A Colorado state court judge has entered a judgment of more than $3 million against a Colorado pastor and his wife, whom state regulators accused of inducing attendees of their online church to invest in a worthless cryptocurrency.
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September 16, 2025
Miami Hospital's Ex-COO Admits To Embezzling $4.3M
The former chief operating officer of the fundraising arm for a taxpayer-funded Miami health system pled guilty to a wire fraud charge in Florida federal court, admitting to embezzling $4.3 million from the nonprofit and receiving kickbacks after submitting false vendor invoices.
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September 16, 2025
Goldman, Morgan Stanley Beat Archegos Suit At 2nd Circ.
The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley of profiting off insider knowledge that the investment firm Archegos Capital Management was about to collapse, ruling that the companies had no duty to withhold from trading on the information.
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September 16, 2025
Bitcoin Fog Operator Fights Conviction Over Venue, Evidence
The alleged operator of the Bitcoin Fog crypto mixer is urging the D.C. Circuit to overturn his conviction, claiming federal prosecutors failed to tie him to a crime in the district and relied on circumstantial forensic evidence to link him to money launderers' use of the anonymizing service.
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September 16, 2025
4th Circ. Revives RICO Claims On Amazon Project Kickbacks
The Fourth Circuit in a published decision Tuesday revived racketeering and other claims from Amazon.com Inc. after two former employees, a real estate developer and an attorney operated a kickback scheme as the company spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a set of data center projects in northern Virginia.
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September 16, 2025
FDIC Gets More Discovery In SVB Fraud Coverage Row
A Chubb unit must comply with a previous order forcing it to give documents relating to the drafting history of certain policy provisions to Silicon Valley Bank former parent SVB Financial Group in a $73 million private equity fraud coverage dispute, a North Carolina federal court ruled.
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September 16, 2025
Twitter Stock Maven Tells Jury He Was 'Addicted' To Trading
An Ohio salesman accused of securities fraud told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was hooked on trading penny stocks, after a rough morning of testimony during which a lawyer from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission forced him to admit his goal was to move share prices.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable
As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.
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The Int'l Compliance View: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Changes to the enforcement landscape in the U.S. and abroad shift the risks and incentives for global compliance programs, creating a race against the clock for companies to deploy investigative resources across worldwide operations, say attorneys at Dentons.
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'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight
The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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How DOJ's New Data Security Rules Leave HIPAA In The Dust
The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how healthcare providers collect, store, share and use data — and approach vendor oversight — that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute
The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility
Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Opinion
Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery
Claims that Paramount’s decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Román at the Florida International University College of Law.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement
To withstand the tightening of workforce-related immigration rules and the enforcement uptick we are seeing in the U.S. and elsewhere, companies must strike a balance between responding quickly to regulatory changes, and developing proactive strategies that minimize risk, say attorneys at Fragomen.
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DOJ-HHS Collab Crystallizes Focus On Health Enforcement
The recently announced partnership between the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat False Claims Act violations, following a multiyear trend of high-dollar DOJ recoveries, signals a long-term enforcement horizon with major implications for healthcare entities and whistleblowers, say attorneys at RJO.
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What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking
As recently seen in the news, clients may find themselves facing parallel U.S. Department of Justice and congressional investigations, requiring a comprehensive response that considers the different challenges posed by each, say attorneys at Friedman Kaplan.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery
In recent months, several courts have issued opinions on handling discovery issues involving artificial intelligence, which collectively offer useful insights on integrating AI into discovery and protecting work product in connection with AI prompts and outputs, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.