EFTA00032932

From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> To: < Subject: Ex-White House Counsel McGahn Ordered To Testify To House Date: "Cue, 26 Nov 2019 08:39:43 +0000 rlaw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS Ex-White House Counsel McGahn Ordered To Testify To House A D.C. federal judge ruled Monday that former White House counsel Don McGahn must comply with a subpoena to testify in House Democrats' impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump's alleged attempts to obstruct former special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election interference. Order attached I Read full article » Katten Settles $69M Malpractice Row Over Lending Scam A Missouri federal judge on Monday dismissed a malpractice suit against Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP after it settled the matter with several corporate entities linked to a decade-long payday lending scam that resulted in a $69 million judgment against the companies. I document attached I Read full article » Atty Lied In Hyundai Construction's CAA Case, DOJ Says A Chicago-area attorney is facing charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath before a federal grand jury in a criminal Clean Air Act case against Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc., the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. Indictment attached I Read full article » Ex-CEO Gets Over 4 Years For Cooking Hedge Fund's Books A Manhattan federal judge hit former Premium Point Investments CEO Anilesh "Neil" Ahuja with 50 months in prison Monday for directing a scheme to overinflate his fallen hedge fund's assets by $100 million, rejecting a defense argument that his underlings were responsible. Read full article » SEC Expands Ad Fraud Suit Against Outcome Health Execs Less than two weeks after federal prosecutors and regulators targeted a former Outcome Health executive over an alleged "massive" advertising fraud scheme, three additional former executives have been named in the parallel criminal and civil cases, according to court documents filed Monday. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Epstein Guards Face April Trial, Decry Broken Prison System A Manhattan federal judge on Monday set an April trial date for two prison guards charged with failing to check on inmates the night wealthy financier ;,,Law360 Pro Say Podcast Listen to our new podcast here LAW FIRMS Allen & Overy Bartle & Marcus Berger Harris Bird & Bird Blank Rome Boies Schiller Bruce S. Rogow PA Buschel & Gibbons Butler Royals Cahill Gordon Clifford Chance Cloth Fair Chambers Consovoy McCarthy Cotsirilos Tighe Cravath Swaine Critchley Kinum Crowley Fleck Doughty Street Chambers Fried Frank German May Hogan Lovells Holwell Shuster Jackson Lewis EFTA00032932 and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his cell, overruling bids by the defense to delay. Read full article » INVESTIGATIONS Justices Pause House Panel's Trump Records Subpoena A House committee must wait to enforce a subpoena on President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm seeking eight years of his business records, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, allowing Trump's attorneys to file a petition to the high court. Order attached I Read full article » COMPLIANCE Alstom UK Unit Ordered To Pay £16.4M For African Bribes A judge ordered the British subsidiary of Alstom SA to pay £16.4 million ($21 million) on Monday after it was convicted of bribing officials to secure a lucrative infrastructure contract in Africa, closing the Serious Fraud Office's long-running probe into the French rail and energy giant's worldwide business dealings. Read full article » SECURITIES Insider Trading Verdict Backed By Evidence, 1st Circ. Rules A jury had ample evidence to convict a man of passing along inside information about a tire company merger from his wife, the company's general counsel, despite newly unearthed documents and witnesses that he says show there was public news of the imminent merger, the First Circuit has ruled. Opinion attached I Read full article » DOJ, Mine Investors Say Och-Ziff Unit Can't Duck Restitution At the court's beckoning, the U.S. Department of Justice and investors in an African mining company each said Friday that an Och-Ziff Capital Management Group unit can't be excused from paying restitution over a bribery scheme. 2 documents attached I Read full article » Qatar PM Wanted To Be Barclays"Special Gulf Guy,' Jury Told The former prime minister of Qatar wanted to be Barclays'"special Gulf guy" in the bank's financial crisis-era fundraising and was against other Middle Eastern investors participating, a London jury heard during testimony from the bank's rainmaker in the region on Monday. Read full article » Three Traders In Newswire Hack Plot Liable For $47.6M Three traders and their companies are liable for nearly $47.6 million after years of ignoring a 2015 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit alleging that they traded off of stolen earnings information, a New Jersey federal judge said Monday. Order attached Read full article Al Co. Investor Says Founder Skimmed Assets, Nuked Critics An investor in augmented intelligence company MondoBrain Inc. accused its founder Monday of skimming company assets and setting up deals that benefited him personally, with critics subjected to "nuclear" retaliation, during arguments in Delaware Chancery Court over blocking the conduct. Jenner & Block Jones Day Katten Keker Van Nest & Peters Kirkland & Ellis LeClairRyan Martin G. Weinberg PC McGuireWoods Michael Best Milbank LLP Modus Law Monico & Spevack O'Hagan Meyer Paul Weiss PilieroMazza PLLC Proskauer Rose QEB Hollis Whiteman Quinn Emanuel Rimon PC Robbins Russell Saul Ewing Sidley Austin Three Raymond Buildings Wilson Sonsini Young Conaway COMPANIES Alstom SA Amazon.com Inc. American Bar Association American Civil Liberties Union American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations Apollo Tyres Ltd. Apple Inc. Bumble Bee Foods LLC Bunge Ltd. Capital One Financial Corp. Citizens Financial Group Inc. ContextMedia Inc. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Court of Arbitration for Sport Deutsche Bank AG Instagram Inc. International Olympic Committee JPMorgan Chase & Co. Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund Mazars USA LLP Microsoft Corp. EFTA00032933 Read full article » PUBLIC INTEGRITY 'Bridgegate' Convictions For Fraud Must Stand, Justices Told Two former associates of ex-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were convicted for lying about a purported traffic study to create massive gridlock as part of the "Bridgegate" scandal and not for hiding political motives for an otherwise lawful decision, prosecutors have said in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to maintain the convictions. Brief attached Read full article » Roger Stone's Bid To Shake Guilty Verdicts Falls Flat Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone can't escape guilty verdicts on the seven felony charges against him because he made no argument that the evidence used to convict him was lacking in any way, a D.C. federal judge explained Monday. Order attached l Read full article » CYBERSECURITY Assange Not Fit For US Extradition Hearing, Doctors Say More than 60 doctors have written to British authorities saying they fear Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could die in prison unless he gets medical treatment before a trial hearing as the U.S. seeks to extradite him to face espionage charges. Read full article » SANCTIONS Apple Strikes Deal With Treasury Over Sanctions Lapse Apple Inc. will pay nearly $467,000 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for allegedly hosting a sanctioned Slovenian software developer on its platform and processing more than $1 million in payments to the company, the Treasury Department announced Monday. Notice attached I Read full article » LEGAL ETHICS Avenatti Attack On Fraud Charge Is 'Hyperbole,' Gov't Says Michael Avenatti ignores the "unmistakable" wording of an allegation that he defrauded a client as he plotted to extort millions from Nike Inc., the federal government has told a New York judge, hoping to knock down the lawyer's arguments that the indictment against him is flawed because it doesn't use the word "bribe." Memorandum attached I Read full article » IMMIGRATION Ex-China Diplomat Hit With 16 Years On Forced Labor Rap A former Chinese diplomat convicted at trial of using workers from his home country as forced labor for U.S. construction projects was sentenced Monday to nearly 16 years in prison, with a New York federal judge decrying a yearslong scheme to profit off of alleged slaves. Read full article » GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS US Sues Contractor Over 'Sham Office' Used To Earn $52M National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Rifle Association of America Nike Inc. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC Outcome Health Planned Parenthood Federation UnitedLex Corp. Wells Fargo & Co. World Anti-Doping Agency YouTube Inc. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Delaware Court of Chancery Executive Office of the President Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Federal Reserve System Maryland Attorney General's Office Office of Foreign Assets Control Port Authority of New York & New Jersey Securities and Exchange Commission Serious Fraud Office U.S. Attorney's Office U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit U S Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. District Court for the Central District of California U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia U S District Court for the Northern District of Illinois EFTA00032934 The U.S. government has accused an Idaho-based company of fraudulently obtaining more than $52 million in federal contracts by allegedly creating a sham office with no-show employees to qualify for benefits intended to help small businesses in economically depressed areas. Complaint attached j Read full article » SPORTS & BETTING Ex-Marketing Exec Cops To Embezzling $22M For Poker, Debts A professional poker player and former executive at digital marketing company StyleHaul Inc. has admitted to embezzling more than $22 million from his employer and spending that money gambling and paying off his credit cards, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Read full article » Russia Should Face Olympic Ban, Anti-Doping Panel Says A World Anti-Doping Agency committee recommended Monday that Russia face a four-year ban from the Olympics and other international competitions after finding the country had destroyed or altered doping test data it was required to turn over because of past allegations of state-sponsored doping. Read full article » COMPETITION Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Admits Getting Non-Public Info On Rivals Over repeated objections by defense attorneys, federal prosecutors on Monday cross-examined ex-Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski about allegations that he engaged in tuna-industry price fixing, drawing out concessions that he "occasionally received non-public information from competitors and "may have asked his employees to gather it. Memorandum attached I Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS Series Judging A Book: Donald Reviews 'Usual Cruelty' The provocative new book by Alec Karakatsanis, "Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System," shines a searing light on the anachronism that is the American criminal justice system, says Sixth Circuit Judge Bernice Donald. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY BigLaw Revenue Still On The Rise Through 3rd Quarter 2019 The legal industry has continued to have a strong year through the third quarter, according to a report released Monday by the Wells Fargo Private Bank's Legal Specialty Group, although numbers have not reached the peak levels seen in 2018. Read full article » Kavanaugh Interested In Revisiting Executive Power Doctrine Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday said he is open to the idea of reviving the so-called nondelegation doctrine in a future case, the latest conservative on the court to suggest support for bringing back separation of powers principles that one liberal justice feared would make "most of government" unconstitutional. Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Supreme Court High Court Won't Hear 'Serial' Subject Syed's New Trial Appeal EFTA00032935 The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday it won't hear Adnan Syed's appeal challenging his 19-year-old murder conviction, which was profiled in the popular podcast "Serial," leaving intact a controversial 4-3 ruling by Maryland's high court that denied Syed a new trial due to his defense counsel's shortcomings. Read full article » 9th Circ. Pick's Views Too Extreme, Liberal Groups Warn After a party-line committee vote last week to advance the nomination of former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke to the Ninth Circuit, liberal groups have urged senators to block his confirmation, saying his record shows an extreme ideological agenda. Read full article » Allen & Overy Matches Milbank On Associate Bonuses Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy is the latest to follow the example set by Milbank LLP, with the firm confirming Monday that it will be awarding bonuses for its associates that are in line with the levels provided at Milbank and several other firms this year. Read full article » LeClairRyan, Joint Venture Settle Worker's Pay Bias Suit Defunct law firm LeClairRyan PLLC and its operational services joint venture with UnitedLex have settled claims that they discriminated against a former marketing employee by paying her less than a male subordinate. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Citizens Financial Group's General Counsel Steve Gannon, the top lawyer at Citizens Financial Group, has been representing similar institutions for most of his career. Here, he shares the regulatory changes happening in his industry, the aspects of his company and role that motivate him to work each day, and his priorities as general counsel. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening White Plains boutique seeks associate litigator (3-7 yrs) KLR Davis White Plains, New York Associate - Business Litigation (Wilmington, DE) McCarter & English. LLP Wilmington, Delaware Government Inv & White Collar Litigation Associate McGuireWoods LLP Los Angeles & Chicago. - Midsized White Plains firm seeks municipal government associate KLR Davis White Plains, New York Real Estate Associate • (Newark, NJ Office) McCarter & English, LLP Newark. New Jersey White Collar & Investigations Associate Attorney - Midlevel Perkins Coie LLP Seattle, Washington Not cute if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. llowevei. if you'd rather no receive future °mails of this son. you may unsubsctibe hem. Please IX) NOT reply to this email. For customer support inquiries. please call +I-646-781-71W or visit our Contact Us page. EFTA00032936 Privacy Policy Law360 I Ponfolio Media, Inc, III West 19th Street, Sth Floor, New York, NY 10011 EFTA00032937