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Trump fired top federal government lawyer
January 31st, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump fired top federal government lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House and refused to defend new travel restrictions targeting seven Muslim-majority nations. It was another ...
CFTC General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus to Depart Agency
January 27th, 2017
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today announced that General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus will depart the agency. Mr. Marcus joined the agency in 2011 as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, and ...
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk
December 27th, 2016
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk Hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from Malaysian state fund 1MDB passed through firms’ pooled accounts in U.S., prosecutors say Tens of billions of dollars every year move through opaque law-firm bank ...
Why Lawyers Sue Yahoo?
December 19th, 2016
On Wednesday afternoon, Yahoo disclosed that it had discovered a data breach exposing the private information of more than one billion user accounts. Less than 12 hours later that same day, a plaintiffs’ firm in Los Angeles had cranked out and ...
Two traders charged in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme
December 13th, 2016
SEC Files Charges in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two New Jersey-based traders with manipulating more than 2,000 NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded stocks and reaping more than $26 million in profits from their ...
Forex manipulation allegation currency trader settled the case
December 12th, 2016
A Citigroup Inc. currency trader in Tokyo who sued the U.S. bank after it fired him for allegedly trying to manipulate foreign-exchange rates has settled the case. The wrongful-dismissal lawsuit was withdrawn on Nov. 2 after the court-mediated settlement, ...
Ex-Wall Street exec sentenced to jail in a $38 million investment fraud case
November 7th, 2016
An Ivy league-educated financier who defrauded friends, family and even a 9/11 victim’s relatives of more than $38 million to feed a gambling habit was sentenced Friday to four years in prison by a Manhattan federal judge. Andrew Caspersen, ...
SEC Charges Board Member With Insider Trading During and After Board Meeting
October 24th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Tennessee-based lawyer who served on the executive committee of the board of directors at Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners with insider trading based on nonpublic information he learned about an impending merger. ...
Date set for FIFA corruption probe Trial
September 21st, 2016
Several defendants charged in a wide-ranging corruption case involving soccer’s global governing body FIFA are in talks with U.S. officials about possibly pleading guilty, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Evan Norris spoke at a hearing ...
SEC Charges Former Professional Football Player With Running $10 Million Fraud
August 11th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Merrill Robertson Jr., a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles, with defrauding investors, including coaches he knew from his time playing football for the Fork Union Military Academy and the University of ...
