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October 02, 2025
Florida Man Gets 19 Years For Running $36M Ponzi Scheme
A Florida federal judge sentenced a Miami man to more than 19 years in prison for running a $36 million Ponzi scheme through a company that purported to make money through quick loans to small businesses.
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October 02, 2025
Ex-NFL Player Claims Signature Forged In Arbitration Clause
A North Carolina Business Court judge was befuddled Thursday by an arbitration clause that retired NFL defensive lineman Mike Rucker says he has no memory of signing, stopping short arguments on its enforceability to instead give the parties time to dig into its authenticity.
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October 02, 2025
Yoga Biz Co-Owner Gets 2 Years For 8-Year, $2.3M Tax-Dodge
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former Yoga to the People co-owner Michael Anderson to two years in prison Thursday, after the onetime yoga studio executive admitted failing to file tax returns for eight years as he earned some $3 million.
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October 02, 2025
Experts Flag Rare Cooperation Level In Conn. Corruption Case
Former Connecticut state budget official Konstantinos Diamantis faces jury selection Friday for charges of soliciting and accepting bribes connected to school construction projects, plus likely testimony from three construction company leaders who swiftly signaled their cooperation with the government in a manner some local experts found unique.
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October 02, 2025
DOJ Beats Heritage Foundation Suit Over Hunter Biden Docs
A Delaware federal judge has ruled against The Heritage Foundation in its Freedom of Information Act suit against the U.S. Department of Justice regarding documents withheld detailing the investigation of Hunter Biden, saying the government "adequately established" that harm would result from releasing the records.
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October 02, 2025
Comey's 1st Task: Decoding A Cryptic Indictment
The criminal indictment of James B. Comey is unusually sparse for such a high-profile matter, leaving open questions for the ex-FBI director to probe that could shed more light on how the government intends to prove its case and create potential lines of attack for the defense, experts say.
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October 02, 2025
Attys Get Mixed NJ Discipline After Fraud Convictions
The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred ex-Sacks Weston attorney Scott Diamond from the practice of law in the Garden State following his conviction for fraudulently resolving cases behind the back of his old firm, according to filings issued Thursday.
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October 02, 2025
Ch. 11 Trustee Appointed In Eventide Bankruptcy
A Texas bankruptcy judge has appointed a Chapter 11 trustee in the bankruptcy of Eventide Credit Acquisitions following a request from the official committee of unsecured creditors.
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October 02, 2025
Ballard Spahr Adds Another Ace Fed. Prosecutor
Ballard Spahr announced Thursday that it has hired a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Minnesota whose trial experience includes what the U.S. Department of Justice had described as the largest pandemic fraud prosecution to date.
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October 02, 2025
Feds, Mont. Tribe Dispute $325K Law Enforcement Contract
The Interior Department and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe are both asking for summary judgment wins in a dispute over law enforcement funding after the tribe accused the U.S. government of failing to provide it with adequate services to maintain programs on its 440,000-acre Montana reservation.
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October 02, 2025
Musk Loses Bid To Ship SEC's Twitter Suit To Texas
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership shares in Twitter will proceed in a Washington, D.C., federal court after a judge there said on Thursday that Musk's preferred forum in Texas was too backed up to take the case.
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October 01, 2025
Tornado Cash Boss Seeks Acquittal After Partial Mistrial
Tornado Cash's Roman Storm on Tuesday urged a New York federal court to acquit the cryptocurrency tumbler co-founder of enabling more than $1 billion in money laundering transactions, as questions remain even among government officials about criminal liability for software developers of open-source privacy tech.
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October 01, 2025
Trump Taps Federal Immigration Judge As Next Wash. US Atty
Federal Immigration Judge Charles Neil Floyd has reportedly been selected by President Donald Trump as the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington.
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October 01, 2025
SEC Wins Case Over Alpine's 'Worthless' Penny-Stock Sales
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has secured a win in Nevada federal court in its lawsuit accusing a Utah securities firm of violating federal anti-fraud provisions by transferring roughly $54 million in client assets from customer accounts to state unclaimed property accounts.
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October 01, 2025
Ex-CFTC Enforcement Head, DOJ Veteran Joins Jones Day
Jones Day has hired a former director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Division of Enforcement who is also a nearly two-decade alumnus of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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October 01, 2025
Prosecutors, Defense Face Confrontation Crisis After Smith
As state courts grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's broadened application of the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, unwary prosecutors and defense attorneys could easily end up in an evidentiary bind.
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October 01, 2025
Trump Withdraws Nomination Of Quintenz For CFTC Chair
President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nomination of Brian Quintenz to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, following a delay at the president's request of a Senate committee vote on the nomination and Quintenz's public feud with crypto exchange founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
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October 01, 2025
Maryland Judge Lets SEC Crypto-Fraud Case Proceed
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit accusing an Australian citizen of defrauding investors in a crypto-mining scheme cleared the dismissal phase Tuesday, but a Baltimore federal judge vacated a default judgment against him for responding late while being detained in the United Arab Emirates.
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October 01, 2025
Calif. Importer, Son Both Get Prison For $8M Customs Fraud
A California federal judge sentenced a Los Angeles Fashion District business owner and his son to more than eight years and seven years in prison, respectively, after they were found guilty of ducking more than $8 million in customs duties and failing to report over $17 million in cash transactions on tax returns.
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October 01, 2025
Ga. Atty DQ'd From 'Extremely Weird' Pharma Fraud Case
A Georgia federal judge said Wednesday she intends to disqualify a prominent defense attorney from representing a man charged with lying to investigators amid a criminal fraud probe into his employer, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc., but would allow the company to continue footing his legal bills as he seeks new counsel.
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October 01, 2025
Ga. Law Firm Looks To Ax Bank's Malpractice Suit Over Fraud
Stanley Esrey & Buckley LLP has urged a Georgia state appeals court to dismiss claims from a bank accusing it of legal malpractice and negligence, arguing that it did not cause the bank to lose more than $8 million through bogus loan transactions.
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October 01, 2025
Va. Prosecutor Indicting Comey Tapped For Full US Atty Role
The interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who is bringing charges against former FBI Director James Comey, has been tapped by President Donald Trump for the full-term role.
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October 01, 2025
Mayer Brown Gov't Investigations Head Moves To MoFo
Kimberly Hamm, former general counsel to the speaker of the House, has joined Morrison Foerster LLP from Mayer Brown LLP as co-chair of the law firm's congressional investigations practice, the firm announced Wednesday.
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September 30, 2025
Feds Press 2nd Circ. To Nix Students' Removal Challenges
The Trump administration on Tuesday urged the Second Circuit to reverse lower courts' findings that led to the release of two college students who say they were wrongly detained by immigration officials for expressing pro-Palestinian views, attacking the notion that they're able to bring habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
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September 30, 2025
Combs Loses Bid To Escape Prostitution-Related Conviction
A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied Sean "Diddy" Combs' request to undo his criminal conviction for transporting two of his former girlfriends for prostitution, allowing sentencing for the hip-hop mogul to move forward on Friday.
Expert Analysis
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How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases
In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.
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Fleeing Or Just Leaving Quickly? 2nd Circ. Says It Depends
The Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Bardakova decision adopted a new approach for determining whether a defendant who commits a crime in the U.S., and then leaves and remains abroad, intends to avoid prosecution — making it more difficult to argue against the fugitive disentitlement doctrine in most cases, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds
A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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What FinCEN's AML Rule Delay Means For Advisers
Even with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's statement last month delaying the compliance date for a rule requiring advisers to report suspicious activity, advisers can expect some level of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission oversight in connection with anti-money laundering compliance, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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How To Successfully Challenge Jurors For Cause In 5 Steps
To effectively challenge a potential juror for cause, attorneys should follow a multistep framework rather than skipping straight to the final qualification question, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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Criminal Healthcare Fraud Takeaways From 4th Circ. Reversal
After the Fourth Circuit reversed a doctor’s postconviction acquittal in U.S. v. Elfenbein last month, defense attorneys should consider three strategies when handling complex criminal healthcare matters, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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White House Report Strikes An Optimistic Note On Crypto
Taking seriously President Donald Trump's pledge to adopt a pro-innovation mindset toward digital assets and blockchain technologies, a recent benchmark White House report on crypto provides a comprehensive regulatory framework that takes into account the products' novel characteristics within the high-tech ecosystem, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.