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September 11, 2025
Ex-Mars Risk Exec Cops To Wire Fraud In $28M Fraud Case
Mars Inc.'s former risk executive copped to wire fraud and tax evasion in Connecticut federal court Thursday over a scheme where he bilked the company out of more than $28 million by diverting funds from Mars assets to an account of a shell entity he created, and billing Mars for phony services.
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September 11, 2025
Atty Accused Of Cyberstalking Law Firm Partner, Another Atty
A Texas attorney has been arrested for allegedly cyberstalking and threatening to kill two other attorneys, one of whom is believed to be a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP.
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September 11, 2025
Nigerian Man Cops To Wire Fraud In $1.3M PPP Loan Case
A Nigeria-born man pled guilty to one count of wire fraud on Thursday after being accused in 2023 of filing for more than $1.3 million in fraudulent COVID-19 relief loans from the Small Business Administration, while also agreeing to pay restitution and forfeit certain assets.
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September 11, 2025
2 DOJ Veterans Join Lawyers For Good Government
Lawyers for Good Government announced Thursday that two longtime U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have joined the organization's ranks to help expand the reach of its Pro Bono Litigation Corps.
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September 11, 2025
Mistrial Declared For Execs Accused Of Bribing Navy Admiral
A D.C. federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of two consulting company executives accused of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral with a lucrative post-retirement job in exchange for government contracts.
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September 11, 2025
Nadine Menendez Gets 4½ Years In Bribery Case
A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday sentenced Nadine Menendez to 4½ years in prison following her conviction at trial for aiding her husband Bob Menendez's corruption by acting as the go-between for bribe payments made to the former U.S. senator to help further the business and personal interests of three New Jersey businessmen.
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September 11, 2025
Italian Firm Adds Obama Counsel For Cross-Border Advice
A former senior U.S. Department of Justice lawyer and senior counsel for former President Barack Obama has joined Italian digital media technology and life sciences firm Portolano Cavallo to bolster its cross-border capabilities, it announced Thursday.
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September 10, 2025
Medical Pot Manager Appeals $2M Judgment In Fraud Case
The manager of a medical marijuana collective is appealing a $2.25 million judgment against him after losing a jury trial and a subsequent motion for a new trial in a lawsuit brought by an investor concerning shareholder rights in a cannabis corporation.
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September 10, 2025
SEC Says Adviser Startup Broke Investor Data Privacy Rule
An investment adviser representative and his firm were hit with a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday over claims that the adviser, among other things, emailed himself confidential client information from his former employer as a step in creating his own investment firm.
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September 10, 2025
Ga. Panel Says Privilege Can Cover Unlicensed In-House Atty
The Georgia Court of Appeals said a trial court rightly found that Church's Chicken and its chief legal officer were protected by attorney-client privilege in a franchisee's contract suit, finding privilege can sometimes cover communications between a corporation and unlicensed in-house counsel.
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September 10, 2025
Ex-NYPD Officer Gets 3 Years For Forex Fraud Scheme
A former New York City police officer turned foreign currency exchange investor on Wednesday was sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding investors out of over $4 million through lies about nonexistent risk mitigation measures.
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September 10, 2025
Feds Want 10 Years For Ex-Navy Admiral In Bribe Case
Prosecutors asked a federal judge Tuesday to sentence a former top U.S. Navy admiral to more than 10 years for corruption, while his own legal team said a sentence without prison time will be enough punishment.
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September 10, 2025
Unions' Challenge To Fed. Layoffs, Reorganizations Proceeds
The Trump administration must continue facing a union-backed challenge to its federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations, a California federal judge ruled, tossing the administration's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court cast enough doubt on the suit's legitimacy by pausing an injunction to justify dismissing the case.
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September 10, 2025
CORRECTED: Fla. Court Affirms $131M Judgment For Trinidad And Tobago
A Florida appeals court Wednesday affirmed a $131 million judgment against a trio of businessmen a jury found conspired to defraud the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago out of more than $32 million in a bid-rigging scheme that involved the government awarding hyperinflated airport construction contracts.
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September 10, 2025
Trump To Take Fed Gov. Cook's Removal Case To DC Circ.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the government will appeal the judge's decision granting a temporary win to Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook in her challenge to the president's attempt to remove her from her position.
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September 10, 2025
DOJ Must Hand Over Documents To Ex-JPMorgan Trader
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice did not properly withhold portions of documents that reference grand jury exhibits from a former JPMorgan trader that were part of a market manipulation case that he beat in 2018, and ordered the DOJ to turn over the documents in question.
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September 10, 2025
Private Equity Fund CEO Charged In $62.5M Ponzi-Like Fraud
The founder of a private equity fund was charged with wire fraud in California federal court for allegedly scamming about $62.5 million from 500 investors through sham promissory notes that purported to yield investment returns up to 15%, while using investors' cash to pay interest to other investors in a Ponzi-like scheme.
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September 10, 2025
Fired FBI Officials Claim 'Campaign Of Retribution' In New Suit
Three former senior FBI officials sued the Trump administration in D.C. federal court on Wednesday, accusing FBI Director Kash Patel of politicizing the agency and firing them as part of a "campaign of retribution" in a bid to keep his own job.
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September 10, 2025
Guo Trustee, Law Firms Get OK For Deals On $4.4M Disputes
A Connecticut bankruptcy judge has approved deals between Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 trustee and the law firm McDermott Will & Schulte, four other law firms and one consulting firm, ending $4.4 million in potential clawback claims without formal litigation.
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September 10, 2025
Jones Day Adds Ex Fed. Prosecutor To SF Healthcare Team
Jones Day is expanding its health care team, bringing in a former assistant U.S. attorney as of counsel in its San Francisco office.
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September 10, 2025
Mass. Justices Reject Former State Senator's Immunity Claim
Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday that a former state senator is not immune from prosecution for using his State House staff to work on his reelection campaigns in 2018 and 2020.
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September 10, 2025
AT&T Gave Prosecutor's Data To Trump-Tied Attys, Suit Says
Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor who exited the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump after his romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was revealed, has accused AT&T of unlawfully releasing "breathtaking" amounts of his personal cellphone data to defendants in the case.
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September 10, 2025
Chinese Scholar Gets Time Served In Smuggling Case
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday said more time in prison wasn't warranted in the case of a Chinese scholar accused of smuggling biological material into the U.S., finding the last three months she's spent in custody and the collateral damage done to her personal and professional life are sufficient punishment.
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September 10, 2025
Baker McKenzie Adds New National Security Group Co-Head
Baker McKenzie welcomed a former Federal Bureau of Investigation senior counselor to its Washington, D.C., office who joins as a partner and co-chair of its national security practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
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September 09, 2025
Fed Reserve Gov. Cook Wins Removal Reprieve For Now
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, for now, can stay on the Fed's board while she challenges President Donald Trump's attempt to strip her of her position, a D.C. federal judge ruled late Tuesday, saying Cook has "made a strong showing" that her purported removal was likely illegal.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.