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## Convicted Hedge Fund Exec Claims SDNY Hid Evidence

Convicted Former Premium Point Investments CEO Anilesh Ahuja says that a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York drafted a cooperator's guilty plea and then told a judge he didn't- a fact Ahuja claims casts doubt on the fairness of his trial.

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## Deutsche Bank Fined $150M For Epstein, Partner Bank Lapses

New York state's financial regulator said Tuesday it fined Deutsche Bank

$150 million for failing to appropriately manage its dealings with alleged bad

actors including millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in federal

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## Analysis Molotov Cases Prosecuted Like Terrorism In All But Name

Brooklyn federal prosecutors have stopped just short of invoking the legally and politically fraught term "terrorism" against the defendants, including a now-suspended Pryor Cashman associate, in alleged Molotov cocktail attacks on NYPD vehicles. Read full article >>

Gov't Ties Ex-Panama President's Sons To Odebrecht Scheme New York federal prosecutors have charged two sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli over their alleged roles in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme tied to Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht SA. Complaint attached | Read full article >>

## Alleged Accomplices To Ghosn Escape Can't Nix US Arrests

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Tuesday shot down a bid to invalidate the arrests of a Green Beret and his son who face extradition to Japan for allegedly helping Carlos Ghosn escape the country while on bail over criminal financial misconduct charges.

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## NYC Grand Juries To Return To State Courthouses In August



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Grand juries will begin to reconvene in New York City state courts starting on Aug. 10, and some criminal matters that have been heard remotely since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic may soon be heard in person, the New York State Unified Court System announced Tuesday.

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## FinCEN Warns Banks About COVID-19-Related Scams

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network warned financial institutions Tuesday about two forms of consumer fraud that have proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic, issuing an advisory with tips for detecting impostor scams and money mule schemes.

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## FTC Targets Belizean Executive In Real Estate Scam Suit

The Federal Trade Commission has urged a Maryland federal judge to hold a

Belizean man liable for more than $138 million in an alleged Belize real

estate scam, accusing him of trying to escape his part in running a fraudulent

operation that deceived American consumers.

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## SECURITIES

## Ex-LA Broker Gets 6 Years For $215M Portfolio Pumping Fraud

A former Beverly Hills stockbroker was sentenced on Monday to 72 months in prison after being convicted last year of participating in a stock price manipulation scheme that pumped up the reported profits of hedge funds and caused investors to lose $215 million. Read full article >>

## Ex-JPMorgan Trader Can't Ditch Forex-Rigging Conviction

A former JPMorgan trader's conviction for scheming with the competition to fix prices in the foreign currency market remains intact after a Manhattan federal judge said the evidence at trial was more than enough to support the verdict.

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## SEC Settles With Rabbi For Bilking Jewish Investors Of $10M

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced a judgment against Rabbi Zvi Feiner and his two companies for allegedly conning at least 62 investors in Chicago's Orthodox Jewish community out of more than $10 million, including $1 million from an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor.

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## CYBERSECURITY

## Alsup Slams Feds' 'Stunts' In Trial Of Alleged Russian Hacker

U.S. District Judge William Alsup criticized a prosecutor Tuesday for presenting "obviously prejudicial" jailhouse phone records instead of "real evidence" against a Russian national on trial in California for allegedly hacking into LinkedIn and Dropbox, saying, "You may end up losing this case because of stunts like that."

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## EBay Cyberstalking Case Expands As Feds Charge Ex-Cop

Federal prosecutors in Boston said Tuesday they have charged a seventh

former eBay employee, a retired cop who worked security for the company, in

connection with an alleged cyberstalking campaign against a Massachusetts

couple who ran an e-commerce industry blog.

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## Microsoft Sues To Block 'COVID-19 Themed' Phishing Scheme

A Virginia court has unsealed documents related to Microsoft's recent efforts to prevent alleged cybercriminals from stealing its users' personal information through a "COVID-19 themed" phishing campaign, the company said. 2 documents attached | Read full article >>

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## 5th Circ. Clears Texas Gov. From Ex-Judge's Retaliation Suit

The Fifth Circuit ruled Monday that a group of former Texas prosecutors — including Gov. Greg Abbott - are shielded by prosecutorial immunity from a former state judge's retaliation suit that alleges they investigated, charged and convicted her on bogus bribery charges, but held that one county prosecutor is not protected.

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## TAX

## Solar Schemers Threatened With Jail For Defying Court

Owners of a solar company found to have perpetrated an abusive $50 million

tax fraud were threatened with jail time by a Utah federal judge because

they've repeatedly flouted contempt-of-court orders, destroyed evidence and

deceived the federal government.

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## COMPETITION

## FTC Fights Shkreli's Bid To Duck Monopolization Case

The Federal Trade Commission and a contingent of states have urged a New York federal court not to toss their suit accusing former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli and a company he founded of monopolizing the market for a lifesaving drug used to treat parasitic infections.

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## SPORTS & BETTING

## Ex-Fox Execs Want Separate Trial In FIFA Bribery Case

A pair of former Fox Sports executives accused of bribing South American soccer officials have urged a New York federal judge to try them separately from other defendants in the sprawling FIFA corruption case, arguing that prosecutors had hastily and incorrectly "lumped them in" with a host of unrelated defendants.

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## EXPERT ANALYSIS

## Are Your Slack Communications Primed For E-Discovery?

With the increasing use of channel-based platforms such as Slack, Messenger and Teams in the work-from-home era, companies should assume they may be compelled to produce channel-based data in litigation and take proactive steps to protect sensitive information, say Jessica Brown and Collin James Vierra at Gibson Dunn.

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## LEGAL INDUSTRY (cont.)

Chief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized last month after injuring himself in a fall, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a statement Tuesday, confirming a report in the Washington Post.

## Read full article >> Black Leaders Call Out Diversity 'Excuses' Law Firms Make

Despite decades of efforts to create a more equal and inclusive legal profession, more change is urgently needed, a panel of top Black attorneys said on Tuesday, pointing to several "excuses" law firms tend to make when failing to hire and promote Black lawyers.

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## Midyear Report: The Biggest Legal Ethics Moments So Far

With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the headlines and just about everything else this year, there has still been plenty happening in the world of legal ethics, from the culmination of an unusual probe into a lawyer fee award to a major court setback for New York's new prosecutor watchdog group. Read full article >>

## Oyez! High Court's 1st Female Marshal, Reporter Are Retiring

U.S. Supreme Court Marshal Pamela Talkin and Reporter of Decisions Christine Luchok Fallon, the first women to serve in those roles, are retiring this year after nearly 50 years of combined service at the court.

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## Hughes Hubbard Lays Off Associates Amid Pandemic

Despite claiming a small business loan as part of the federal government's COVID-19 relief efforts, New York law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP confirmed Tuesday that it had laid off an undisclosed number of associates and staff to weather the pandemic.

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## Coronavirus Regulations: A State-By-State Week In Review

The uptick in the spread of COVID-19 reenergized an emphasis on face

coverings this past week, leading to a public awareness campaign in

California and a new law in Texas. And in Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf

shared World Health Organization research in an effort to get commonwealth

citizens to cover up.

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Seyfarth Opens Seattle Office With Labor, Real Estate Focus Seyfarth Shaw LLP on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Seattle office with a focus on real estate and labor law, with the firm saying it decided to move ahead with the planned expansion into the Pacific Northwest despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Read full article >>

## Firm Must Produce Email Allegedly Used To Blackmail Judge

A Florida judge ordered Tripp Scott PA on Tuesday to produce an email sent to one of its former attorneys allegedly containing nude photographs of a Palm Beach County judge that the judge says were later used by a prominent Fort Lauderdale attorney to blackmail her.

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## Ex-National Economic Council Deputy Joins Mayer Brown

Former White House economic adviser Andrew Olmem has returned to Mayer Brown LLP, joining the firm's public policy, regulatory and political law practice after taking part in the development and coordination of U.S. economic policies in various sectors.

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