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October 07, 2025
11th Circ. Wary Of IRS Procedure In FBAR Penalty Appeal
An Eleventh Circuit panel Tuesday appeared concerned about IRS procedures that could keep a man from recouping $419,000 he paid to resolve his failure to disclose funds held in foreign bank accounts as he appeals a district court determination that he actually owes $2.2 million.
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October 07, 2025
Wine Co. Exec Cops To Wire Fraud Conspiracy In $99M Scam
A United Kingdom wine company executive pled guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in New York federal court Tuesday in a criminal case accusing him of scamming investors out of $99 million after persuading them to make loans using wine collections as collateral.
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October 07, 2025
Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial
A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Conn. Official Says Contractor Was The One Seeking Cash
The first witness in a federal corruption case against former Connecticut budget official Kosta Diamantis is a repeat liar who misled his own masonry company's president into advancing his personal year-end bonus, which he used to leverage family connections and seek the government's favor, Diamantis' attorney suggested Tuesday during cross-examination.
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October 07, 2025
4th Circ. Urged To Reverse $10M Medicare Fraud Conviction
A former physician's assistant on Tuesday requested that the Fourth Circuit reverse a six-year prison sentence for his involvement in a $10 million Medicaid fraud scheme, claiming evidence that could exonerate him was suppressed by a federal district court.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Executives' Payroll Tax Convictions Biased, 4th Circ. Told
Two former software executives asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse their criminal convictions stemming from their failure to pay employment taxes, claiming the jury's instructions were biased.
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October 07, 2025
Okla. Judge Cites McGirt Ruling For 200% Caseload Surge
An Oklahoma federal judge chided a group of tribal plaintiffs in a dispute over jurisdiction in Indian Country after they inquired about the status of their summary judgment motions, saying a landmark 2020 Supreme Court ruling has increased the court's criminal caseload by 200%.
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October 07, 2025
Feds Seek 6 Years For Ex-Frank Exec's 'Brazen' $175M Con
Prosecutors asked a New York federal judge Monday to sentence a former executive at financial aid startup Frank to six years in prison for helping its founder Charlie Javice trick JPMorgan Chase & Co. into buying the company for $175 million, saying he deserves no leniency for the "brazen" fraud.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Cop Denied Bond During Breonna Taylor Shooting Appeal
A former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer who was found guilty of firing shots into the home of Breonna Taylor must remain in federal prison, after a district court judge refused to free him on bond pending his appeal of his three-year prison sentence.
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October 07, 2025
NH Justice Reaches No Contest Plea Deal In Criminal Case
A New Hampshire Supreme Court justice entered a no contest plea Tuesday to a charge of criminal solicitation of misuse of position related to allegations she interfered with the state attorney general's investigation of her husband.
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October 07, 2025
Bondi Declines To Discuss James Comey Indictment
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice.
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October 07, 2025
Jones Day Grows Investigations Team With K&L Gates Atty
An attorney with nearly 30 years of experience conducting internal investigations for clients on wide-ranging matters has moved his practice to Jones Day's Pittsburgh office after more than 27 years with K&L Gates.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Sprinter Gets 18 Mos. For Doping Scheme, COVID-19 Fraud
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former Olympic-level sprinter to 18 months in prison Tuesday, after he admitted to scheming to provide track stars with doping substances, and also to applying for fraudulent COVID-19 era business loans.
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October 07, 2025
Kirkland & Ellis Partner Named GC Of Inversion In NY
Inversion, a New York City-based technology-first private equity firm, has announced that it hired a Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner as general counsel.
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October 07, 2025
Fla. Lawyer Accused Of Scamming Clients Suspended
A Florida lawyer accused of abandoning dozens of clients after charging them legal fees has been suspended from practicing law in the state on an emergency basis.
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October 06, 2025
Girardi's Son-In-Law Gets Mixed Sentence For Contempt
Tom Girardi's son-in-law received a mixed sentence in Chicago federal court Monday that included equal parts incarceration and home confinement alongside a hefty community service obligation for failing to alert a judge when he knew Girardi wasn't paying certain Lion Air crash clients their settlements as ordered.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Wary Of Hard Rules On Recess Testimony Talks
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared reluctant Monday to rule that the Sixth Amendment allows defense counsel to freely discuss defendants' testimony with them during an intervening overnight recess, with justices questioning which topics should be off limits and which should not.
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October 06, 2025
Chief DC Judge Rejects Feds' Bid To Force Local Indictment
The chief judge for the Washington, D.C., federal court rejected the government's request to make a magistrate judge accept an indictment secured through a local grand jury when the initial federal grand jury declined to indict, after prosecutors argued the tactic is legal and has been used for decades.
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October 06, 2025
Scooters Aren't Securities, Court Told In Bid To Toss SEC Suit
A scooter rental company urged a Florida federal court to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit alleging it misled hundreds of investors to raise $4 million, saying the goods it offered aren't regulated by the agency.
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October 06, 2025
'We Paid Him': Ex-VP Testifies In Former Budget Official's Trial
Former Connecticut school construction grant director Konstantinos Diamantis claimed he was drowning in bills and increasingly demanded money when a masonry contractor didn't immediately pay kickbacks on the timeline he wanted, the construction company's onetime vice-president testified Monday.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review SC School District's Arbitration Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Fourth Circuit decision reviving an insurer's bid for arbitration in a South Carolina school district's suit claiming its former chief financial officer steered unnecessary and expensive insurance contracts in exchange for bribes.
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October 06, 2025
Suit Seeks Recording Said To Show Border Czar Taking Cash
Legal advocacy group Democracy Forward in a suit Monday asked a D.C. federal court to order the Trump administration to hand over a recording that reportedly shows White House border czar Tom Homan accepting a $50,000 cash payment from undercover FBI agents last year.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Asked To Narrow Honest Services Fraud In FIFA Case
A South American sports marketing firm has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its reinstated bribery convictions, arguing that the Second Circuit's "extreme" application of honest services fraud law expanded the ability to secure convictions based on a private code of conduct.
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October 06, 2025
Trump Names Investigator Of Russia Probe As DOJ Acting IG
The White House has tapped an experienced government attorney who investigated the FBI's probe into President Donald Trump's links with Russia to be the U.S. Department of Justice's acting inspector general, according to a notification sent to Congress.
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October 06, 2025
Atty Sanctioned For 'Reckless' AI Use In DC FCA Case
An attorney who admitted to relying on generative artificial intelligence to help craft a brief that contained errors in all of its nine citations, was ordered to pay fee sanctions in a judge's order that emphasized attorneys should stick to the fundamentals taught in law school: "check your legal citations for accuracy."
Expert Analysis
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Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Parsing Trump Admin's First 6 Months Of SEC Enforcement
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement results for the first six months of the Trump administration show substantially fewer new enforcement actions compared to the same period under the previous administration, but indicate a clear focus on traditional fraud schemes affecting retail investors, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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Health Insurance Kickback Cases Signal Greater Gov't Focus
A series of recent indictments by federal prosecutors in California suggests that the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act is gaining momentum as an enforcement tool against illegal inducement of patient referrals in the realm of commercial health insurance, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Cos. Face EU, US Regulatory Tension On Many Fronts
When the European Union sets stringent standards, companies seeking to operate in the international marketplace must conform to them, or else concede opportunities — but with the current U.S. administration pushing hard to roll back regulations, global companies face an increasing tension over which standards to follow, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.
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DOJ's New Initiative Puts Title IX Compliance In Spotlight
Following the federal government's recent guidance regarding enhanced enforcement of discrimination on the basis of sex, organizations should evaluate whether they fall under the aegis of Title IX's scope, which is broader than many realize, and assess discrimination prevention opportunities, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI
Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning
A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.
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DOJ's Novel Cybersecurity FCA Case Is A Warning To Medtech
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent False Claims Act settlement with Illumina over alleged cybersecurity deficiencies suggests that enforcement agencies and whistleblowers are focusing attention toward cybersecurity in life sciences and medical tech, but also reveals key unanswered questions about the legal viability of such allegations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Insuring Against FCA Risk In Shifting Trade Landscape
In today's heightened trade enforcement environment, companies should proactively assess whether their insurance programs are positioned to respond to potential False Claims Act or customs-related claims, including reviewing directors and officers, professional liability, and representations and warranties policies for key terms, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Demystifying The Civil Procedure Rules Amendment Process
Every year, an advisory committee receives dozens of proposals to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, most of which are never adopted — but a few pointers can help maximize the likelihood that an amendment will be adopted, says Josh Gardner at DLA Piper.
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With Obligor Ruling, Ohio Justices Calm Lending Waters
A recent decision by the Ohio Supreme Court, affirming a fundamental principle that lenders have no duty to disclose material risks to obligors, provides clarity for commercial lending practices in Ohio and beyond, and offers a reminder of the risks presented by guarantee arrangements, says Carrie Brosius at Vorys.
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'Solicit' Ruling Offers Proxy Advisers Compliance Relief
The D.C. Circuit recently found that proxy voting advice does not fall under the legal definition of "solicitation," significantly narrowing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory power over such advisers, offering stability to the proxy advisory industry and providing temporary relief from new compliance burdens, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Evaluating The SEC's Rising Whistleblower Denial Rate
The rising trend of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower award claim denials represents a departure from the SEC's previous track record and may reflect a more conservative approach to whistleblower award determinations under the current administration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns
Following the Genius Act's passage, states like California, New York and Wyoming are racing to set new standards for crypto governance, creating both opportunity and risk for digital asset firms as innovation flourishes in some jurisdictions while costly friction emerges in others, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.