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No Third Trial For Former Bond Trader Litvak

Posted On Tuesday, July 31, 2018 At 5:35PM

What Happened? After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed former Jefferies Group bond trader Jesse Litvak’s securities fraud conviction for the second time, the government...

Tailoring RFP For Preferred Contractors Leads To Guilty Verdicts Of A State University’s President And Construction Executives

Posted On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 At 5:40PM
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What Happened? On July 10, 2018 a federal jury in Manhattan convicted a State University of New York’s Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) former president, and three executives of two...

Former Nurse Gets Stiff Sentence For Medicare Fraud

Posted On Friday, May 18, 2018 At 6:02PM

What Happened? On May 9, 2018, Joan Cicchiello, a 67-year-old former registered nurse, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to 72 months’...

Supreme Court Limits Tax Obstruction

Posted On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 At 1:39PM
By: Christopher A. Iacono

What Happened This week, the United States Supreme Court in Marinello v. United States held that in order to sustain a tax obstruction conviction, there must be a nexus between the...

DOJ Takes New Steps In Opioid Enforcement

Posted On Monday, March 19, 2018 At 1:42PM
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What Happened In the last few weeks, the Department of Justice has announced new initiatives in the fight against the opioid crisis. These initiatives included the creation of the...

DOJ Expands FCPA Declination Policy To Other Criminal Matters

Posted On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 At 1:48PM

What Happened The Department of Justice suggested last month that it will decline prosecution in corporate criminal matters in which the corporation engages in voluntarily disclosure. The...

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