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July 01, 2025
Proxy Firms Don't 'Solicit' Investor Votes, DC Circ. Rules
A D.C. Circuit panel Tuesday ruled that proxy advisory firms do not "solicit" proxy votes, thus denying a manufacturing industry group's attempt to revive a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule regulating those firms.
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June 30, 2025
9th Circ. Nixes Suit Against Allianz Over $6B Fraud Sentence
A man can't bring securities fraud claims against Allianz SE after one of the German financial services giant's former businesses pled guilty to investment fund fraud and was ordered to pay roughly $6 billion, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding he failed to sufficiently allege Allianz SE itself acted fraudulently.
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June 30, 2025
Philly-Area Law Firm's Bookkeeper Jailed For Embezzlement
The former bookkeeper at a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, law firm has been sentenced to one to two years of incarceration for embezzling more than $820,000 from the firm, state prosecutors announced Friday.
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June 30, 2025
DOJ Allowed To Protect Antitrust Probe Of Fragrance Market
A New Jersey federal court on Monday granted the U.S. Department of Justice permission to intervene in a case against several fragrance companies after enforcers said they need to protect an ongoing criminal probe of the industry over a conspiracy to reduce competition.
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June 30, 2025
Yoga To The People Founder Gets 4 Years For Tax Evasion
A Manhattan federal judge Monday sentenced the founder of Yoga to the People to four years in prison for dodging more than $1 million in taxes over an eight-year period, during which the once-popular fitness chain did not file a single corporate tax return.
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June 30, 2025
FCC To Screen Regulatory Offenses For Criminal Liability
The Federal Communications Commission has outlined criteria to decide when regulatory offenses should lead to criminal liability, responding to a White House executive order issued to federal agencies in May.
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June 30, 2025
Beasley Is Latest Player Scrutinized In NBA Gambling Probe
The National Basketball Association's Malik Beasley is at least the third player in the league to be investigated by federal prosecutors for his role in gambling on performances in games, sources confirmed Monday to Law360.
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June 30, 2025
9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea
Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.
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June 30, 2025
DOJ Says Over 300 Charged In $14.6B Healthcare Fraud Sting
A healthcare fraud operation conducted by federal and state law enforcement groups netted more than 300 defendants in a slew of schemes amounting to $14.6 billion in potential false claims, the Justice Department announced Monday.
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June 30, 2025
Lin Wood Can't Avoid Legal Costs In Defamation Case
A Georgia federal judge has found that retired attorney L. Lin Wood can't escape paying his former law partners $750,000 in attorney fees and costs related to a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him, rejecting his argument that the statute governing attorney fees was unconstitutional.
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June 30, 2025
UMich Hacking Suit Adds NFL Head Coach Jim Harbaugh
Jim Harbaugh, head football coach for the Los Angeles Chargers, has been named as a defendant in the civil rights lawsuit against former University of Michigan coach Matthew Weiss, who is accused of pilfering the personal information of thousands of female athletes.
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June 30, 2025
Judge Hits Pause On Civil RICO Suit Against NJ Power Broker
A New Jersey judge has entered a consent order pausing a real estate developer's civil racketeering suit against influential South Jersey businessman George Norcross III, holding the parties' dispute in stasis until an appeal over the dismissal of a related criminal indictment can be resolved.
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June 30, 2025
Justices To Resolve Split On Supervised Release Fugitives
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case poised to resolve a sharp circuit split over whether the "fugitive tolling" doctrine barring criminal defendants from earning credits to reduce prison sentences while they are not behind bars also should apply to defendants who abscond from supervised release.
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June 30, 2025
Ex-Ohio Speaker Calls 6th Circ. Bribery Ruling A 'Stretch'
Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its decision to stand by his bribery conviction over the FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal that got him 20 years in prison, arguing the panel made "an illegal stretch" in assuming the jurors undertook proper analysis despite allegedly improper instructions.
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June 30, 2025
Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law
The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.
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June 30, 2025
High Court To Hear Fight Over Investment Fund Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could limit the ability of private parties to assert contract violations against investment funds, with one activist investor accusing several closed-end funds of shutting it out of its voting rights.
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June 30, 2025
Husch Blackwell Adds Ex-US Atty, DOJ Public Integrity Lawyer
Todd Gee, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi and an ex-member of the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, has joined Husch Blackwell LLP as a white collar partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.
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June 27, 2025
Crytpo Co. Boss Gets 8 Years For $40M Ponzi Schemes
A Brooklyn federal judge on Friday sentenced the head of multiple cryptocurrency companies to nearly eight years in prison for his role atop interrelated Ponzi schemes that raised over $40 million from investors based on false promises of guaranteed returns.
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June 27, 2025
Abrego Garcia Attys 'Cannot Put Any Faith' In DOJ Claims
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia's attorneys on Friday urged the Tennessee federal judge overseeing his criminal case to delay issuing his release from custody, citing the government's contradictory statements over its seemingly new intention to redeport him somewhere other than his native El Salvador.
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June 27, 2025
Injunction OK'd In Ex-FTX Exec Ch. 11 Clawback Case
A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved a preliminary injunction Friday against former FTX executive Ryan Salame to prevent him from dissipating as much as $6 million in assets he is accused of taking from the cryptocurrency exchange prior to its 2022 collapse.
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June 27, 2025
Patient Monitoring Co. To Pay Feds $1.3M To Settle FCA Suit
A Georgia healthcare patient monitoring company has agreed to pay nearly $1.3 million to resolve a False Claims Act suit alleging it gave referral kickbacks to doctors' offices in half a dozen states, ripping off Medicare and Medicaid in the process.
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June 27, 2025
Feds Say Transnational Crime Ring Stole $10B From Medicare
New York federal prosecutors have charged 11 members of a "transnational criminal organization, based in Russia and elsewhere," with submitting more than $10 billion worth of fraudulent Medicare claims over the last three years and funneling the proceeds overseas, according to a newly unsealed indictment.
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June 27, 2025
Loyola Says It Had No Role In Student-Athlete Data Breach
Loyola University Chicago moved Thursday to be dismissed from an Illinois federal lawsuit claiming it failed to protect the private data of its student-athletes, saying it can't be held liable for the unlawful access of an ex-University of Michigan football coach who has no affiliation or connection to the university.
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June 27, 2025
Financial Regulators Say Banks Can Use Third-Party TIN Info
Financial regulators on Friday said banks can collect tax identification number information from third parties, rather than just from their customers, pointing to changes in banking since the requirement was enacted under the USA PATRIOT Act.
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June 27, 2025
RE Developer Cops Plea, Settles SEC's $3M Fraud Suit
A New Hampshire-based real estate developer has agreed to plead guilty and settle parallel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that she defrauded investors out of more than $3 million through a series of real estate investment projects between 2018 and 2024.
Expert Analysis
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Takeaways From DOJ's Latest FCA Customs Fraud Intervention
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent intervention in a case alleging customs-related reverse False Claims Act fraud underlines the government’s increased scrutiny of, and importers’ corresponding exposure from, information related to product classification, country of origin and pricing, say attorneys at Bass Berry.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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When Physical And Cyber Threats Converge: 6 Tips For Cos.
Amid an ongoing trend of increased digital threats of harm made against corporations, organizations and high-profile individuals, an emerging legal framework is providing a risk management road map for general counsel and their teams to navigate the increasingly fraught landscape, say attorneys at Covington.
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4 Ways To Leverage A Jury's Underdog Perceptions
Counsel should consider how common factors that speak to their client's size, power, past challenges and alignment with jurors can be presented to try and paint their client as a sympathetic underdog, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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Why Hiring Former Jurors As Consultants Can Be Risky
The defense team's decision to hire former juror Victoria George in the high-profile retrial of Karen Read shines a spotlight on this controversial strategy, which raises important legal, ethical and tactical questions despite not being explicitly prohibited, says Nikoleta Despodova at ND Litigation.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Combs Case Reveals Key Pretrial Scheduling Strategies
The procedural battles over pretrial disclosure deadlines leading up to the criminal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs show how disclosure timing can substantially affect defendants’ ability to prepare and highlight several scheduling pointers for defense counsel, says Sara Kropf at Kropf Moseley.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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5th Circ. Ruling Is Latest Signal Of Shaky Qui Tam Landscape
In his recent concurring opinion in U.S. v. Peripheral Vascular Associates, a Fifth Circuit judge joined a growing list of jurists suggesting that the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, underscoring that acceptance of qui tam relators can no longer be taken for granted, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.
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Foreign Countries Have Strong Foundation To Fill FCPA Void
Though the U.S. has paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, liberal democracies across the globe are well equipped to reverse any setback in anti-corruption enforcement, potentially heightening prosecution risk for companies headquartered in the U.S., says Stephen Kohn at Kohn Kohn.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025
The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.
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How Attorneys Can Make The Most Of A Deposition Transcript
With recent amendments to federal evidence rules now in effect, it’s more important than ever to make sure that deposition transcripts are clear and precise, and a few key strategies can help attorneys get the most out of a transcript before, during and after a deposition, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.
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Getting Ahead Of The SEC's Continued Focus On Cyber, AI
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is showing it will continue to scrutinize actions involving cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, but there are proactive measures that companies and financial institutions can take to avoid regulatory scrutiny going forward, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims
Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.