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From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> To: Subject: 2nd Circ. Rejects Immediate Stay In Trump Tax Subpoena Suit Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:54:45 +0000 claw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, August 24, 2020 Gtfollow Law360 TOP NEWS 2nd Circ. Rejects Immediate Stay In Trump Tax Subpoena Suit The Second Circuit said Friday that it will consider President Donald Trump's request to pause a decision allowing a Manhattan grand jury to subpoena his tax records pending an appeal, but the court denied his request for an immediate stay. 4 documents attached I Read full article » Loughlin Gets 2 Mos., Husband 5 Mos. In 'Varsity Blues' Case Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced Friday to two months and five months in prison, respectively, for their roles in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal after admitting to paying bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California as fake rowing recruits. Read full article » Feds Want Accused Chinese Spy Held As 'Extreme Flight Risk' U.S. attorneys in Hawaii endeavored to convince a federal judge to deny bail to an ex-CIA agent accused of spying for China in a filing released Thursday, citing a "war chest of damning evidence" and calling him "an extreme flight risk." Memorandum attached I Read full article » Feds Say Maxwell Can't Use Criminal Discovery In Civil Suits Federal prosecutors urged a New York federal judge on Friday to deny a request by Ghislaine Maxwell to let her file certain criminal discovery materials under seal in unspecified civil suits against her, arguing that Maxwell is attempting to "blur the lines between the criminal discovery process and civil litigation." Letter attached I Read full article » LA Blast That Injured Firefighters Sparks Criminal Charges An explosion at a commercial property in downtown Los Angeles that injured a dozen firefighters earlier this year has sparked criminal charges against the building's owners and managers, the city attorney's office announced Friday. 4 documents attached I Read full article COMPLIANCE Feds Stress Risk Focus For 'Politically Exposed' Bank Clients '''„Law360 Rising Stars LAW FIRMS Adam Leitman Akin Gump Arnold & Porter Baker Botts Beach Cowdrey Becker & Poliakoff Bernstein Liebhard Bervar & Jones Blank Rome Cadwalader Wickersham Calfee Halter Carella Byrne Clark Hill Cohen & Gresser Consovoy McCarthy Cozen O'Connor Donnelly Conroy Ericksen Arbuthnot Fenwick & West Fish & Richardson Flachsbart & Greenspoon Foley & Lardner Fox Rothschild EFTA00025258 The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and federal banking regulators said Friday that banks should make sure their "politically exposed" clients receive customer due diligence that matches their risk levels but don't need to subject these clients to special extra scrutiny. Statement attached I Read full article » SECURITIES Traders Sue Scotiabank After $127M Spoofing Deal With DOJ A pair of commodities traders sued Scotiabank on Friday after the Toronto- based bank admitted in a $127 million settlement with the U.S. government to an eight-year scheme to manipulate the market for precious metals futures contracts. Complaint attached Read full article » Fiat Chrysler Aims To Dump Investor Suit Over UAW Bribes Fiat Chrysler on Friday urged a New York federal court to ditch a stock-drop suit accusing the automaker of concealing a scheme to bribe officials at the United Automobile Workers, insisting that none of its executives was aware of the bribery scheme and its financial disclosures therefore weren't misleading or inaccurate. Motion attached I Read full article » SEC Says There's 'No Dispute' Biotech Brass Broke Law The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday sought partial judgments against the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of biotechnology company Osiris Therapeutics Inc., telling a Maryland federal judge that there was no good faith argument to be made that the men didn't violate federal securities law by scheming to cook the company's books. 2 documents attached I Read full article » SEC Sues Ex-Brokers For Role In $22M Belize Airport Ponzi The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission targeted two former brokers in New York federal court on Friday for the unregistered sale of securities to about half of the investor victims in a $22 million Ponzi scheme fronted by a purported airport project in Belize. Complaint attached ' Read full article » CFTC Seeks $572M From Vanished Crypto Fraud Suspect The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking a default judgment against apparent U.K. resident Benjamin Reynolds that would put him on the hook for $572 million after the agency alleged he stole 22,858 bitcoins in a Ponzi scheme-like fraud and failed to appear in the case. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Investor Claims Ohio Utility Played Role In $60M Bribery Plot American Electric Power Co. Inc. is facing a proposed class action from an investor who says the utility's stock lost value after an Ohio newspaper ran an investigative report implicating AEP in a more than $60 million corruption plot. Complaint attached Read full article » LEGAL ETHICS Dallas Atty Hit With 6-Month Suspension For Misconduct A three-judge panel of the Northern District of Texas has suspended a Dallas criminal defense attorney from practicing before the court for six months, finding she violated a judge's order to stop communicating with an ex-client and lied to prosecutors. Franklin Soto LLP Fried Frank Gibson Dunn Glancy Prongay Haddon Morgan Hogan Lovells Jones Day K&L Gates King & Spalding Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Law Offices of Alan S. Futerfas Levi & Korsinsky Lewis Brisbois Lowenstein Sandler Manatt Phelps Mark Beck Law Marshall Gerstein Miller Canfield Morgan Lewis Mukasey Frenchman Munger Tolles Nussbaum Law Group PC Patterson & Sheridan Paul Hastings Paul Weiss Quinn Emanuel Reed Smith Ropes & Gray Rosen Law Firm PA Scheper Kim Selendy & Gay Sheppard Mullin Sidley Austin Squire Patton Boggs Stoel Rives Sullivan & Cromwell Swanson Martin Vogl Meredith White & Case WilmerHale Wilson Elser COMPANIES Amazon.com Inc. American Airlines Group Inc. American Bar Association American Electric Power Co. Inc. Appaloosa Management LP Apple Inc. Association of Corporate Counsel EFTA00025259 Order attached I Read full article » HEALTH NextHealth Marketer Charged In $60M Kickback Scheme A pharmacy marketer has been charged in a $60 million health care kickback scheme, accused of helping a pharmacy and laboratory services company recruit physicians, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Read full article » III. Doctors With Same Name Agree To End Trademark Fight An Illinois federal judge on Friday permanently dismissed a case between a doctor and another physician of the same name, the latter of whom was accused of capitalizing off their similar names to run an opioid "pill mill" and tarnish the plaintiffs professional standing. I document attached I Read full article » Fla. Telemedicine Schemers Cost Humana Millions, Suit Says Humana Insurance Co. sued a Florida telemedicine company on Thursday for allegedly preying upon Humana members through a telemedicine scheme that billed the insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription creams. Complaint attached I Read full article » IMMIGRATION Feds Arrest Va. Man Over Alleged $21M H-1B Scam A Virginia information technology business owner was arrested Thursday on charges of orchestrating a $21 million immigration fraud scheme that saw him using his companies to fraudulently obtain H-1B visas for foreign tech workers. Read full article » CONSUMER PROTECTION Pa. AG Hits Amazon Seller With Sanitizer Price-Gouging Suit Pennsylvania's attorney general is seeking $1 million in penalties against a Philadelphia-based company accused of illegally jacking up the price of hand sanitizer it sold on Amazon.com as the coronavirus pandemic took hold in March. Complaint attached I Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS Opinion Pandemic Is No Excuse To Limit Defendants' Trial Rights Chicago federal prosecutors' recent argument that the pandemic compels two ex-Deutsche Bank traders to choose between their right to a speedy trial and the right to confront witnesses in person is not only inconsistent with current law but fundamentally unfair, say John Richter and Christina Kung at King & Spalding. Read full article » Why Remote Depositions Are Likely Here To Stay As attorneys and their clients realize it is possible to conduct video depositions just as smoothly as in-person sessions while eliminating travel, catering and other costs, they will likely demand that remote procedures remain in place even after the pandemic is contained, says Darren Goldman at Becker & Poliakoff. Center for Justice Cisco Systems Inc. Dealogic LLC Deutsche Bank AG Eli Lilly & Co. FCA US LLC Federalist Society Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. FirstEnergy Corp. Fred Alger & Co. Inc. Google Inc. Humana Inc. Janus Henderson Group PLC Liberty Mutual Insurance Group Mazars LLP Michelin Group Microsoft Corp. National Futures Association Osiris Therapeutics Inc. Skype Technologies SA Spotify Technology SA The Bank of Nova Scotia The Boeing Co. The Clorox Co. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Trump Organization Inc. U S Chamber of Commerce United Auto Workers University of Southern California YouTube Inc. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Central Intelligence Agency Commodity Futures Trading Commission Congressional Research Service Equal Employment Opportunity Commission European Union Executive Office of the President Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Federal Judicial Center Federal Reserve System Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Florida Supreme Court Library of Congress EFTA00025260 Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY Legend In Law: Liberty Mutual Insurance's James Kelleher Kelleher, chief legal officer for one of the largest U.S. insurers, has been named a Burton Awards Legend in Law, a distinction reserved for the top general counsel in the nation. Read full article » BigLaw And The Ballot: The Pro Bono Fight For Mail-In Voting With the U.S. presidential election looming and the coronavirus pandemic still raging, pro bono attorneys at BigLaw firms are increasingly jumping into court battles over mail-in voting that are moving at unprecedented speed. Read full article » 33-Year-Old Trump Judicial Pick Attacked Over Experience Liberal advocates are lambasting President Donald Trump's youthful pick for a Florida federal judgeship, questioning the trial experience of a Jones Day associate who graduated law school in 2012 and would be the youngest federal judge in over 30 years. Read full article » Stoel Rives Walks Back COVID-19 Cuts But Will Remain Wary Stoel Rives LLP has announced that it will partly roll back the salary reductions it implemented in the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although the firm said that it will continue to "operate cautiously." Read full article » Lowenstein Securities Chair Forms New Firm With Colleagues Lawrence Rolnick, the chair of Lowenstein Sandler LLP's securities litigation practice, is taking nine of his colleagues with him to start a new firm catering to the investment management industry, he told Law360 on Friday. Read full article » Calif. Atty Says Lewis Brisbois Cheated Him Of $1M Fee Award A California attorney has filed a fraud suit against Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, one of its partners and several other firms and attorneys who allegedly cheated him out of over $1 million in attorney fees from a settlement in a personal injury lawsuit. Read full article » GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission came closer to a proposed rule that modifies its presuit conciliation process for settling bias claims against employers, and a new survey found that staff changes have affected a majority of in-house attorneys' workload. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read full article » In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read full article » Podcast Law360's Pro Say: The Artistry Of The Courtroom Sketch The courtroom sketch artist has one of the legal world's most fascinating professions and, so long as television access to court proceedings remains limited, maybe one of the most important. 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