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  • August 01, 2025

    NJ Court Will Mull Legality Of Habba's US Atty Appointment

    If Alina Habba was illegally appointed acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, a pair of defendants in a drug trafficking case are not entitled to dismissal of the indictment, but it "appears appropriate" that Habba would be barred from prosecuting them, a federal judge ruled Friday.

  • August 01, 2025

    Oppenheimer Says OFAC Is Looking Into Its AML Policies

    Wall Street brokerage and investment bank Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. said Friday that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions arm is investigating its anti-money laundering compliance program.

  • August 01, 2025

    Right-Wing Duo Cop To Robocall Voter Suppression Charges

    Two Virginia-based right-wing activists accepted a plea on felony charges on Friday for leading a misinformation robocall campaign that discouraged Black voters from voting by mail in the 2020 election, the Michigan attorney general's office announced.

  • August 01, 2025

    Ga. Man Faces 170 Years In Prison For $3.4M Tax Fraud

    A Georgia man was convicted of filing fraudulent tax returns and claiming a $3.4 million tax refund from the Internal Revenue Service, crimes that could bring 170 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

  • August 01, 2025

    Feds Won't Retry Madigan Co-Defendant After Mistrial

    Prosecutors asked an Illinois federal judge on Friday to dismiss charges against ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's longtime confidant Michael McClain after a jury was unable to reach a decision on the counts against McClain when the pair were tried together.

  • August 01, 2025

    Atty Seeks To End Malpractice Suit Over SEC Fraud Case

    A New York lawyer is seeking a quick win on malpractice claims brought in Florida federal court by a former client who says she improperly advised him to sign a consent decree with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that resulted in a $12.1 million disgorgement judgment, arguing the client's subsequent guilty plea defeats the claims.

  • August 01, 2025

    DC Panel Calls For Former DOJ Official Clark's Disbarment

    The majority of a Washington, D.C., lawyer ethics panel has called for the disbarment of Jeffrey Clark, a White House official and ally of President Donald Trump, over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

  • August 01, 2025

    Ex-Bank GC Must Pay $2.5M Fraud Restitution By Oct. 1

    A former Webster Bank general counsel who pled guilty to bank fraud must pay by Oct. 1 the remaining $2.5 million he owes in restitution, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the man's bank accounts and securities are enough to cover the difference.

  • July 31, 2025

    Fed Joins In Letting Banks Use Third-Party Customer ID Info

    The Federal Reserve on Thursday relaxed a post-Sept. 11 identity check rule for banks under its oversight, joining other federal financial regulators in allowing the use of certain information provided by third-party sources.

  • July 31, 2025

    GOP Bill Would Give President More Power Over US Atty Picks

    The Trump administration has used maneuvers to keep interim U.S. attorneys in place beyond their statutory time limit, which detractors say subverts the Senate's advice and consent role. A bill that two Republican senators introduced on Thursday would shift more power over the process to the president.

  • July 31, 2025

    Anadarko Asks 5th Circ. To Back La. Suit Indemnity Win

    Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has asked the Fifth Circuit to uphold its indemnification win against an environmental remediation company in connection with a decade-old Louisiana kickback suit, writing that "one who makes his own bed must lie in it."

  • July 31, 2025

    Witness' Use Of 'Fraud' Doesn't Cancel TV Sports Exec's Verdict

    The First Circuit rejected arguments by a former executive at the cable channel for the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins that a witness' use of the word "fraud" and testimony about his lavish spending tainted the jury that convicted him of a fake invoice scheme.

  • July 31, 2025

    Wis. Judge Pushes For Immunity In ICE Arrest Case

    A Wisconsin state judge is pushing for the dismissal of criminal charges alleging she hindered an immigration enforcement arrest, reiterating her argument that she has immunity against what she called the "overreaching federal prosecution of a state court judge for acts within her official duties."

  • July 31, 2025

    Nonlawyer Indicted For Filing False Immigrant Asylum Forms

    A Pennsylvania woman falsely claimed to be an immigration attorney and filed false asylum claims for immigrant clients, according to an indictment federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

  • July 31, 2025

    MSG Makes Play For $1.5M Fees In Oakley Dispute

    Madison Square Garden is seeking $1.5 million in attorney fees from former New York Knicks player Charles Oakley, laying out the efforts it took to uncover Oakley's efforts to destroy text messages connected with his long-running assault and battery suit against the arena.

  • July 31, 2025

    Nadine Menendez Loses Bid To Toss Bribery Conviction

    The wife of former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez failed Thursday in her effort to overturn her conviction in a sweeping federal corruption case as a Manhattan federal judge ruled that the evidence against her was both extensive and compelling.

  • July 31, 2025

    Ill. Jury Convicts Forex Trader In $230K Fraud Scheme

    A Chicago federal jury on Thursday convicted an Illinois man of duping investors with promises to deliver considerable profits by trading their money on the foreign exchange market, when he really spent most of their investments on himself and was barred from trading securities in the state.

  • July 31, 2025

    Baldwin Eyes Deal Over Failed 'Rust' Trial With Suit Dormant

    Alec Baldwin's lawsuit in New Mexico state court against prosecutors and others involved in his botched involuntary manslaughter case in the "Rust" film shooting has been temporarily thrown out, but the actor-producer's attorneys said Thursday that they've been in settlement discussions and will move to reinstate the suit if the talks fail.

  • July 31, 2025

    2nd Circ. Vacates OpenSea Crypto Insider Trading Conviction

    The Second Circuit on Thursday overturned the fraud conviction of a former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on nonfungible token sales on his employer's platform, finding that聽a Manhattan jury may have convicted him "based on conduct that it found to be unethical rather than fraudulent."

  • July 30, 2025

    US Atty Swap Was 'Calculated' To Evade Senate, NJ Court Told

    The reappointment of Alina Habba from interim to acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was an unconstitutional maneuver "calculated to bypass Senate confirmation," a defendant seeking dismissal of his drug trafficking indictment told a federal judge Wednesday, while prosecutors opposed the motion as a "dispute over titles, not authority."

  • July 30, 2025

    Tornado Was A One-Stop Crypto Laundering Shop, Jury Told

    Manhattan federal prosecutors Wednesday made their final arguments in the money laundering and sanctions trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, claiming the cryptocurrency tumbler's privacy-focused ethos was just a fig leaf for dirty money that flowed through its "fancy online laundromat."

  • July 30, 2025

    DOJ Flags 'Unlawful Discrimination' To Gov't Fund Recipients

    The U.S. Department of Justice has outlined what it considers "unlawful discrimination" that federal funding recipients must avoid, including diversity, equity and inclusion programs, transgender athletes and "proxy" discrimination of assessing a job applicant's "cultural competence."

  • July 30, 2025

    NY Woman Cops To $30M Scam That Used Trump Event As Bait

    A New York woman pled guilty Wednesday to conspiring to defraud investors out of more than $30 million in a real estate fraud and illicit campaign finance scheme, which included using illegal foreign political donations to access a fundraiser for President Donald Trump to woo investors.

  • July 30, 2025

    White House Crypto Report Sets Blueprint For Coming Rules

    A long-awaited report from the President's Working Group on Digital Asset Markets that was released Wednesday encouraged securities and derivatives聽regulators to use their existing authorities to clear the way for crypto issuance and trading in the absence of lasting legislation, while also urging banking regulators to sharpen standards for crypto engagement.

  • July 30, 2025

    Illumina To Pay $9.8M To Resolve Cybersecurity Qui Tam Case

    Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. has agreed to pay $9.8 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to put to rest a first-of-its-kind False Claims Act suit alleging the company violated cybersecurity regulations for medical devices, according to an announcement Wednesday.

Expert Analysis

  • How DOJ's New Data Security Rules Leave HIPAA In The Dust

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    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 鈥 and approach vendor oversight 鈥 that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    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 鈥 but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film 鈥淥h, Hi!鈥 鈥 depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping 鈥 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.

  • How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility

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    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.

  • Opinion

    Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

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    Claims that Paramount鈥檚 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 Rom谩n at the Florida International University College of Law.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I鈥檝e 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鈥橞yrne at MoFo.

  • Grappling With Workforce-Related Immigration Enforcement

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    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.

  • DOJ-HHS Collab Crystallizes Focus On Health Enforcement

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    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.

  • What To Do When Congress And DOJ Both Come Knocking

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    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.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice 鈥 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.

  • How Courts Are Addressing The Use Of AI In Discovery

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    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.

  • Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch

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    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.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    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鈥檚 no single answer 鈥 just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.

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    In light of the U.S. Department of Justice鈥檚 recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At Key 5th Circ. White Collar Rulings So Far This Year

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    In the first half of 2025, the Fifth Circuit has decided numerous cases of particular import to white collar practitioners, which collectively underscore the critical importance of meticulous recordbuilding, procedural compliance and strategic litigation choices at every stage of a case, says Joe Magliolo at Jackson Walker.

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