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October 16, 2025
US Attorney Nominations For Missouri And Indiana Advance
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve, along party lines, two U.S. attorney nominees for Missouri and Indiana on Thursday.
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October 15, 2025
Jack Smith And Other Ex-DOJ Staffers Slam Trump Purge
Former U.S. Department of Justice employees, including former special counsel Jack Smith, spoke out Wednesday in support of colleagues fired or forced to resign by the Trump administration, issuing a warning about the "existential crisis" born from efforts to use the agency to punish the president's political opponents.
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October 15, 2025
MIT Grads Tell Jury $25M Crypto Score Was No Heist
Counsel for two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of pinching $25 million from Ethereum blockchain traders in a seconds-long bait and switch heist told a Manhattan federal jury Wednesday that it was actually a legitimate trading strategy in the "new, hard-charging" crypto trading environment.
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October 15, 2025
Goldstein Can't Dismiss 2016 Tax Charges As Time-Barred
A Maryland federal judge denied SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein's motion to dismiss four of the 22 federal tax charges brought against him in January, ruling that his defense that the counts stemming from the 2016 tax year should be time-barred will have to be raised at trial.
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October 15, 2025
Trump Fundraiser Guilty Of Mar-A-Lago Straw Donor Scheme
A New York man who raised funds for President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was found guilty Wednesday of making straw donor contributions under others' names, a scheme prosecutors said was partly intended to help Chinese nationals gain access to Trump.
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October 15, 2025
SEC Says Couple's $26.5M Ponzi Scheme Targeted Minorities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused a California couple Wednesday of running a $26.5 million unregistered securities fraud that targeted Vietnamese and Latino communities in multiple states.
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October 15, 2025
Justices Doubt Need For Probable Cause In Emergency Entry
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday seemed reluctant to raise the standard police must meet to enter a home without a warrant during a potential emergency, with several saying they did not see a reason to disturb past rulings on the subject.
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October 15, 2025
BofA, BNY Mellon Accused Of Enabling Epstein's Crimes
Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. are the latest banks accused of enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise and failing to timely report the late sex offender's suspicious transactions, according to a pair of proposed class actions filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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October 15, 2025
Feds Drop 1 Lying Count Amid Ex-Budget Official's Trial
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday dropped one charge against Connecticut school construction official Kosta Diamantis, releasing him from allegations that he lied to the FBI when he allegedly said he didn't care who was hired to manage an emergency school construction project in Tolland.
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October 15, 2025
Pa. Man Pleads To Misleading Investors In $33M Crypto Scam
A Pennsylvania man accused of bilking investors out of more than $33 million in a cryptocurrency investment scheme pled guilty in federal court Wednesday.
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October 15, 2025
Phone-Maker Oppo Wants Out Of Apple Trade Secret Case
Chinese phone-maker Oppo has asked a California federal judge to release it from a case brought by Apple Inc. alleging that a former employee stole trade secrets when he moved to Oppo, saying the suit had no allegation that Oppo received any trade secrets.
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October 15, 2025
Loan Originator Gets 1½ Years For $10M Mortgage Fraud
An Illinois federal judge sentenced a loan originator to 1½ years in prison Wednesday for his role in a lengthy and complex mortgage fraud scheme that involved conning elderly victims out of an estimated $10 million in home equity.
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October 15, 2025
Crowell & Moring Adds Seasoned Healthcare Trial Atty
Crowell & Moring on Wednesday announced that it is expanding its healthcare team with the addition of a first-chair trial attorney who co-founded the healthcare practice at Robins Kaplan LLP, where he was most recently a partner.
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October 15, 2025
Ex-WH Ethics Attys Slam 'Vindictive' Comey, James Charges
Three former White House ethics attorneys have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice over what they call the "vindictive and meritless" criminal prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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October 15, 2025
Ex-Trooper Gets 6 Years For Driver's License Bribery Scheme
The former commanding officer of a Massachusetts State Police unit that conducted commercial driver's license exams has received a six-year prison sentence for leading a scheme to trade passing scores on road tests by unqualified drivers for what a prosecutor called the "oddest and greediest" of bribes.
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October 15, 2025
3rd Circ. Preview: US Atty, Columbia Activist, Ex-Union Prez
The Third Circuit's late October arguments will include two nationally watched cases scrutinizing President Donald Trump's power to name "interim" government officials and his promise to deport foreign nationals who allegedly supported Hamas or took part in protests against Israel's war in Gaza.
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October 14, 2025
High Court Won't Review DOJ Office's Atty-Client Intrusions
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to scrutinize whether prosecutorial intrusions on attorney-client communications violate the constitutional right to counsel, ending a prominent challenge to practices that led to a U.S. Department of Justice office being held in contempt.
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October 14, 2025
Banks Ignored NFT Scam That 'Screamed Fraud,' Court Told
A Texas investor urged a California federal court not to toss his lawsuit accusing East West Bank and Cathay Bank of ignoring red flags from scammers and enabling a $17 million romance scam, saying that he provided enough evidence showing that the banks disregarded obvious signs of fraud.
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October 14, 2025
Repeat Conviction Challenges Case Meets Skeptical Justices
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed skepticism of the government's contention that a 1996 antiterrorism law forbids them from reviewing appellate rulings granting or denying incarcerated people permission to repeatedly challenge their convictions, saying any law that deprives the high court of jurisdiction must be clear and unambiguous.
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October 14, 2025
Calif. City Wins Cannabis Lab Permit Suit Over RICO Claims
A cannabis entrepreneur's lawsuit accusing the mayor of a Los Angeles suburb of soliciting a $350,000 bribe in exchange for a permit has been thrown out by a California state judge, who ruled that because no money was actually paid, the businessman's racketeering claims couldn't survive.
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October 14, 2025
Auto Insurers To Pay NY AG $14.2M Over Data Breaches
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that eight car insurance companies will pay $14.2 million to end claims they failed to protect people's personal information in light of a widespread hack involving the companies' online quoting tools.
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October 14, 2025
DOJ Seizes $15B In Bitcoin Linked To Pig Butchering Scams
Federal law enforcement and the U.S. Department of the Treasury are taking aim at a sprawling Cambodian human trafficking operation and cryptocurrency scam in an indictment and record-setting $15 billion forfeiture action unveiled Tuesday that detailed Prince Holding Group's alleged use of forced labor to steal and launder billions of dollars from victims worldwide.
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October 14, 2025
Governor Won't Testify In Conn. Official's Corruption Case
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont won't be called to testify in the bribery and extortion trial of former school construction official Kosta Diamantis after a judge agreed with prosecutors on Tuesday that additional testimony about Diamantis' character and demeanor would be irrelevant to the charges against him.
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October 14, 2025
Prime Core's Trust Seeks $93.6M Clawback After Bankruptcy
The litigation trust overseeing bankrupt crypto custodian Prime Core Technologies Inc. has launched a clawback suit in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, seeking to recover nearly $93.6 million in alleged preferential transfers made to a London-based trading partner in the weeks before Prime's collapse.
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October 14, 2025
Judge Denies Gov't's 'Overbroad' Comey Discovery Proposal
A Virginia federal judge has shot down prosecutors' recommendations for a protective order covering discovery material such as law enforcement documents and private communications in its case against ex-FBI Director James Comey, calling the proposal "overbroad" as it would have kept Comey's attorneys from leaving discovery material with Comey himself.
Expert Analysis
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Justices May Decide Whether Restitution Is A Punishment
Forthcoming oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Ellingburg v. U.S. will focus on whether criminal restitution qualifies as criminal punishment under the U.S. Constitution — a key question as restitution has expanded in reach and severity, while providing little meaningful compensation for victims, says Lula Hagos at George Washington University Law School.
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Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
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NY AML Rules Get Crypto Rebrand: What It Means For Banks
A recent letter from the New York State Department of Financial Services outlining how banks can use blockchain analytics in anti-money laundering efforts is a reminder that crypto activity is not exempted from banks' role in keeping the financial system safe, says Katherine Lemire at Lankler Siffert.
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Courts Are Still Grappling With McDonnell, 9 Years Later
The Seventh and D.C. Circuits’ recent decisions in U.S. v. Weiss and U.S. v. Paitsel, respectively, demonstrate that courts are still struggling to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2016 ruling in McDonnell v. U.S., which narrowed the scope of “official acts” in federal bribery cases, say attorneys at Quinn Emanuel.
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Compliance Pointers Amid Domestic Terrorism Clampdown
A recent presidential memorandum marks a shift in federal domestic-terrorism enforcement that should prompt nonprofits to enhance diligence related to grantees, vendors and events, and financial institutions to shore up their internal resources for increased suspicious-activity monitoring and reporting obligations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Understanding And Managing Jurors' Hindsight Bias
Hindsight bias — wherein events seem more predictable after the fact than they were beforehand — presents a persistent cognitive distortion in jury decision-making, but attorneys can mitigate its effects at trial through awareness, repetition and framing, say consultants at Courtroom Sciences.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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DOJ Chemical Seizure Shows Broad Civil Forfeiture Authority
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent seizure of meth precursor chemicals en route from China to Mexico illustrates the U.S. government's powerful jurisdictional reach to seek forfeiture of cartel-related assets, and company compliance programs must take note, say attorneys at White & Case.
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NC Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
There were several impactful changes to the financial services landscape in North Carolina in the third quarter of the year, including statutory updates, enforcement developments from Office of the Commissioner of Banks, and notable mergers, acquisitions and branch expansions, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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Despite Fraud Focus, SEC Still Targeting Technical Violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman Paul Atkins has emphasized its back-to-basics strategy, focusing on identifying and combating fraud and manipulation, but at the same time, it has continued to pursue nonfraud-based actions targeting technical rule violations, a trend that will likely continue, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
Of note in the third quarter of the year, New York state regulators moved forward on their agendas to limit abuse of electronic banking, including via a settlement with stablecoin issuer Paxos and a lawsuit against Zelle alleging insufficient security measures, says Chris Bonner at Barclay Damon.
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High Court Right-To-Counsel Case Could Have Seismic Impact
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in Villarreal v. Texas about whether prohibiting testimony discussions between defendants and their counsel during an overnight recess violates the Sixth Amendment, and the eventual decision could impose a barrier in the attorney-client relationship, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.
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Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
The third quarter of 2025 brought legislative changes to state money transmission certification requirements and securities law obligations, as well as high-profile accounting and anti-money laundering compliance enforcement actions by the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.