From: New York Law360 <[email protected]> To: > Subject: UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:24:32 +0000 ;law360 New York NEW YORK Monday, August 12, 2019 Law360 TOP NEWS Analysis UN Bribery Ruling Further Defines The Limits Of McDonnell The Second Circuit closed the door on defendants hoping to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's McDonnell ruling in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases — a decision showing the ruling does not apply across the spectrum of corruption prosecutions as some defense attorneys had hoped. Read full article » 2nd Circ. Says McDonnell Rule Doesn't Apply In FCPA Cases The high bar for certain corruption cases the U.S. Supreme Court set in McDonnell does not apply to prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Second Circuit ruled Friday, affirming the conviction of a Chinese real estate developer for bribing United Nations officials. Opinion attached I Read full article » Ex-KPMG Accountant Gets 8 Months For Inspection Plan Theft A Manhattan federal judge on Friday sentenced a former KPMG accountant from Texas, who admitted poaching confidential inspection plans from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and giving them to KPMG, to eight months in prison. Read full article » NYT Wins Toss Of Arpaio's $147M Defamation Suit A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday threw out a $147.5 million defamation suit brought by Joe Arpaio against The New York Times, saying the former sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County had come "nowhere close" to proving a crucial aspect of his case. Order attached I Read full article » Epstein Dead In Apparent Suicide, As Feds Investigate Federal investigators will examine the death of Jeffrey Epstein, the financier charged with sex trafficking underage girls, after officials said he was found dead in his Manhattan federal jail cell on Saturday morning, derailing a blockbuster trial a day after a trove of documents connected to him were made public. 9 documents attached I Read full article » Judges Say 'We've Had It' With Attacks On The Judiciary The time has come for judges to "take more aggressive action" to fight back against attacks on the judiciary made by President Trump and other ;law360 Pro Say Podcast Listen to our new podcast here LAW FIRMS Advisors LLC Akin Gump Arent Fox Armstrong Teasdale Arnold & Porter Baker Marquart Ballard Spahr Christian & Barton Clark Hill Cleary Gottlieb Consovoy McCarthy Constantine Cannon Cravath Swaine Crowell & Moring DLA Piper Davis Polk Davis Wright Tremaine Debevoise & Plimpton Dechert Dewey & LeBoeuf Eisner LLP Ellenoff Grossman Eversheds Sutherland EFTA00032349

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Charity Accused Of Iran Sanctions Violations Gets New Trial The Second Circuit on Friday gave a New York charity a second chance to fight allegations that it violated U.S. sanctions against Iran, scolding a Manhattan court for allowing the government to present illegally obtained evidence at trial. Opinion attached I Read full article » COMPETITION Comcast, AT&T Get Sought T-Mobile/Sprint Info Locks Comcast and AT&T have persuaded a New York federal judge to impose stricter safeguards for their sensitive business information submitted in the state attorneys generals' case challenging T-Mobile's purchase of Sprint, with the judge upping the level of protection from what the merging companies had proposed. 1 document attached I Read full article » BANKING Wells Fargo Blasts Bankrupt Fund's Bid To Probe Casino IPO Wells Fargo and a group of bondholders who claim they're owed nearly $900 million have blasted a bankrupt hedge fund's request to investigate the contested Macau casino IPO at the heart of the dispute, calling the debtors "hopelessly conflicted." 1 document attached Read full article TAX Trump Tax Return Suit Belongs In NY, State Officials Say New York officials on Friday asked a D.C. federal judge to transfer to their state President Donald Trump's suit seeking to bar enforcement of a law allowing Congress access to his state tax returns, saying it lacks a D.C. connection. Motion attached I Read full article » ProPublica Sues IRS To Release Emails On Private Tax Prep Nonprofit news organization ProPublica sued the Internal Revenue Service in a New York federal court on Friday for the immediate release of documents related to the renewal of a partnership between the agency and private industry providers of free online tax filing services. Complaint attached I Read full article » CAPITAL MARKETS 3 Firms Guide OceanFirst Bank Deals Valued At $285M Total The parent of Toms River, New Jersey-based OceanFirst Bank said Friday that it has inked separate agreements totaling roughly $285 million to acquire two fellow banking companies, in deals guided by Skadden, Stevens & Lee and Luse Gorman. Read full article » Ellenoff-Led Blank Check Co. Nabs $300M IPO For Fintech Buy Blank check company Thunder Bridge Acquisition II Ltd. hit the market Friday, a day after pricing $300 million in an initial public offering the Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP-led company says will be used to acquire a business in the financial technology space. Read full article » American Bar Association American Civil Liberties Union Apple Inc. Boenning & Scattergood Inc. Brigham Young University Charter Communications Inc. Cisco Systems Inc. Comcast Corp. DISH Network LLC Delta Air Lines Inc. Deutsche Telekom AG EisnerAmper LLP Federal - Mogul Corporation First Capital, Inc. GNC Corp. Gerson Lehrman Group Inc. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Google Inc. H&R Block Inc. Health Diagnostic Laboratory Inc. Intuit Inc. KPMG International LexisNexis Group Linkedln Corp. Milwaukee Bucks Morgan Stanley NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. National Conference of State Legislatures New York Times Co. OceanFirst Financial Corp. Philadelphia Phillies Piper Jaffray Companies Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Purdue Pharma LP QUALCOMM Inc. RELX PLC Retail Industry Leaders Association Inc. Rolls-Royce Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Silver Point Capital LP Spotify Technology SA Sprint Nextel Corporation State Bar of California T-Mobile USA Inc. Tenneco Inc. Twitter Inc. Two River Bancorp EFTA00032351

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