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Ex-Akin Gump Atty Says Feds Handed Him Stolen Complaints - The ex-Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorney who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for trying to sell a sealed whistleblower complaint said the government gave him back a hard drive... https://t.co/JUENQA30jC

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Gov't Slams Ex-Katten Atty's Move To Nix Conviction - Brooklyn federal prosecutors on Wednesday tore into former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney Evan Greebel’s attempt to undo his conviction or get a new trial for purportedly aiding Martin Shkreli... https://t.co/bkn02BkK8F

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Conn. Man Must Pay $1.2M Over Stadium Fraud Scheme - A Connecticut man has been ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution after he was slapped with six months in prison last month for his role in a scheme to overbill the city of Hartford fo... https://t.co/huOSswMM5T

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Sheldon Silver Can't Toss Charges Post-Vacated Conviction - Disgraced former New York lawmaker Sheldon Silver lost a bid to dismiss an indictment on corruption charges Tuesday, as a federal judge rejected his arguments for trimming or tossing claims t... https://t.co/RLqrRHGEK2

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Wilmington Trust Execs Say Fed Never Flagged Loan Reports - An attorney for a former top Wilmington Trust Corp. executive noted Tuesday that Federal Reserve examiners never flagged seemingly "significant disparities" in Delaware bank loan reports in e... https://t.co/J2VaK36Qwy

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National Lawyers Need National Licensing For National Courts - Just last month, a number of legal groups asked the Northern District of California to strike its rule requiring that, before seeking federal court admission, attorneys first be licensed b... https://t.co/NwXuak3Wlo

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Manhattan DA's Weinstein Probe To Get Unheard-Of Review - Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will face a review into how his office handled a sexual assault complaint against former media mogul Harvey Weinstein after a report suggested prosec... https://t.co/uFD6FEw9gK

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Akin Gump Reps Tippee Pro Bono In BofA Inside Trading Case - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has agreed to take up the defense of a computer analyst charged with trading on confidential merger information gleaned from a former Bank of America execu... https://t.co/E7Eka3hTFS

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New Bribery Suit's Implications For Venezuela Restructuring - The decision by Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA to pursue claims in the U.S. over an alleged bribery scheme raises a number of legal and strategic issues not just for the defendan... https://t.co/NIz9Jrudmx

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Sessions Fires FBI's Former No. 2 Just Before Retirement - Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday night, roughly a day before McCabe was set to retire, because he said an internal report found the lon... https://t.co/r1BFO4o2LV

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Experts At Heart Of Tension In Health Care Prosecutions - The rare reversal of a Kentucky heart doctor’s fraud conviction and prosecutors’ appeal highlights the way the U.S. Department of Justice is using experts to dispute the necessity of health car... https://t.co/RbijWv1YXd

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An Update On Spoofing And Its Challenges - Regulators have recently increased their efforts in cracking down on spoofing, yielding an increasing number of criminal indictments and civil settlements. However, an important challenge in identifying spoof... https://t.co/uLNJXNJnJ2

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Feds Tell 7th Circ. House Rules Fair Game In Schock Case - Prosecutors have urged the Seventh Circuit to reject ex-Rep. Aaron Schock's bid to shut down the government's fraud case against him on separation of powers grounds, setting up a showdown over... https://t.co/csT6goRvGr

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Pa. Atty Gets 33-Month Prison Term For Defrauding Client - A former Pittsburgh-area attorney was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison Wednesday after copping to charges that he stole more than half a million dollars from a client with dem... https://t.co/WpeA9GCdfo

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Are ICOs In The Crosshairs Of New York’s Martin Act? - Although much attention has been paid to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s actions in the initial coin offering space, little thought has been given to the applicability of New York’s ... https://t.co/Y83g5N1QkS

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Venezuela's Oil Co. Can't Copy Bribery Defendants' Docs - The Florida federal judge overseeing Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA’s suit over an alleged bribery scheme said Wednesday he would modify a temporary restraining order to prohibit all... https://t.co/bKLfZLnaCg

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Rights Groups Say CLOUD Act Tramples Civil Liberties - The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the American Civil Liberties Union and others are calling on Congress to block legislation meant to facilitate cross-border data requests by l... https://t.co/b6l3QyLejg

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Former Equifax Exec Indicted For Insider Trading - Civil and criminal charges have been filed against a former Equifax executive accused of selling off shares before the public was informed of the company’s massive data breach, the U.S. Securities and... https://t.co/L2cEQZ60oc