From: White Collar Law360 <news-altglaw360.com> To: Subject: Ex-FDIC Staffer Found Guilty Of Stealing Banks Living Wills Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:22:13 +0000 ;:Law360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Law360 TOP NEWS Ex-FDIC Staffer Found Guilty Of Stealing Banks' Living Wills A former senior employee at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was convicted by a Brooklyn federal jury on Tuesday of stealing banks' confidential regulatory filings known as "living wills" that the government claims she copied so she could prepare for job interviews. Read full article » Ex-SUNY Prez Gets 3.5 Years For 'Buffalo Billion' Bid-Rigging Manhattan U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni hit former State University of New York Polytechnic Institute President Alain Kaloyeros with three and a half years in prison Tuesday for rigging bids, but allowed the nuclear scientist credited with a revitalization of the upstate school to stay free while he appeals. Read full article » Ex-Bloomberg, Turner Execs Charged In $15M Bribery Case Former Bloomberg LP and Turner Construction executives helped steal $15 million from the media giant by rigging bids and handling bribes — sometimes code-named "sandwiches" — linked to interior construction work at two Bloomberg offices, Manhattan's district attorney alleged Tuesday. Read full article » Ex-Deutsche Traders Fight Convictions, Cite Gov't Misconduct Two former traders at Deutsche Bank on Monday urged Manhattan's chief federal judge to reverse their convictions for rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate and dismiss the charges against them, arguing that prosecutors lied and hid evidence throughout the case. Read full article » Hearing Set To Determine If Manafort Lied A D.C. federal judge Tuesday tentatively scheduled a hearing for Jan. 25 to determine whether Paul Manafort violated his plea agreement by lying to special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Read full article )> MVP: Quinn Emanuel's William A. Burck William A. Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP found himself in the eye of the hurricane surrounding the production of documents in the contentious confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh this year, making him one of Law360's 2018 White Collar MVPs. Read full article SECURITIES Minn. Biz Co-Founder Gets 12 Years For $30M Stock Fraud ;',,Law360 Pro Say Podcast Listen to our new podcast here LAW FIRMS Best & Flanagan Bredhoff & Kaiser Coots Henke Crowell & Moring Davis Wright Tremaine Duane Morris Epstein Becker Green Harder LLP Jenner & Block Levine Lee McGuireWoods Munger Tolles Paul Hastings Paul Weiss Peckar & Abramson Quinn Emanuel Ropes & Gray Steptoe & Johnson LLP COMPANIES A.P. Moller-Maersk Aeroflex Holding Corp. American Bar Association EFTA00032410

A Minnesota federal judge sentenced a company co-founder to 12 years in prison Tuesday for his role in a $30 million stock manipulation scheme involving everything from a defunct tanning salon and his personal polo coach to his and his business partner's fathers posing as the company's board. Read full article » Fraudster's Ex-Wife Must Share Emails In Atty Tryst Case An Indiana court has ruled that the ex-wife of a convicted hedge fund manager, who claims that she and his defense attorney were having an affair while the attorney was representing him, must turn over all communications she had with the attorney from the time he began representing her ex- husband until the time the two got married. Read full article » PUBLIC INTEGRITY House Azerbaijan Trip Organizer Pleads Guilty In Ethics Probe An investigation into funding for a 2013 U.S. House of Representatives junket to Azerbaijan has ended with a guilty plea in D.C. federal court that will result in six to 12 months in prison for the trip organizer, a former president of a nonprofit formed to promote understanding between the U.S. and Turkish peoples. Read full article » SANCTIONS Huawei Exec Granted Bail By Canadian Judge A Canadian judge granted bail on Tuesday to a top Huawei Technologies Co. executive facing extradition to the United States, the telecommunications giant announced. Read full article » LEGAL ETHICS Cape-Wearing Chicago Atty Offers No Excuse For Client Theft A former Chicago personal injury lawyer known for dressing up in a cape and mask for a superhero persona known as "ExcuseMan" pled guilty Monday in a Chicago court to stealing his clients' settlements. Read full article » HEALTH Pa. Health Network To Pay $12.5M For Alleged Overbilling Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania announced on Tuesday that they'd inked a $12.5 million settlement with a Lehigh Valley health care network and its CEO over alleged false Medicare and Medicaid claims for orthopedic surgeries. Read full article » IMMIGRATION NC Atty Charged With Aiding Client's Immigration Fraud A North Carolina immigration attorney has been accused of helping an unauthorized immigrant use a U.S. citizen's identity to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday. Read full article » Media Errors Hurt Political Chances, Ex-Sheriff Arpaio Says Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio hit CNN, HuffPost, Rolling Stone and several reporters with a $300.5 million defamation lawsuit in D.C. federal court Monday, claiming that misreporting related to his since-pardoned misdemeanor conviction for criminal contempt has hurt his reputation and political chances. Read full article » GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS BPM LLP Bloomberg Cable News Network Inc. Consumer Watchdog Deutsche Bank AG Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Huawei Technologies JPMorgan Chase & Co. Judicial Watch Inc. LM Ericsson Telephone Company LPCiminelli Inc. Microsoft Corporation New York Times Co. Northern Trust Corporation Penske Media Corp. Robert Half International Inc. Sanderson Farms, Inc. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. The New York City School Construction Authority The State University of New York Twitter Inc. U.S. Legal Support Inc. Washington Post Co. YouTube Inc. ZTE Corp. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES European Union Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission Financial Conduct Authority Internal Revenue Service New Jersey Attorney General's Office New York State Police Office of Foreign Assets Control Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Attorney's Office U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court United Nations EFTA00032411

Contractor Admits Role In Sending Unqualified Guards To IRS A manager for a company that provided armed guards to the IRS has pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government in a scheme involving the falsification of firearm shooting scores, prosecutors said Monday. Read full article » TAX Accountant Seeks No Prison Time For $18M Tax Return Fraud An accountant found guilty of helping a venture capitalist siphon $18 million from a fund through false tax returns has told a California federal court he should serve no time behind bars despite prosecutors' request for a "significant" prison sentence. Read full article » EXPERT ANALYSIS A Review Of US Economic Sanctions In 2018 In 2018, the U.S. government strengthened sanctions targeting Iran, Russia and Venezuela, sanctioned an agency of the Chinese government and completed the second largest sanctions-related enforcement action on record. And the evidence suggests 2019 will be equally tumultuous, say attorneys with Ropes & Gray LLP. Read full article » Opening Comments: A Key Strategic Decision In Mediation Opening comments by parties in mediation that are made with the proper content and tone can diffuse pent-up emotion and pave the way for a successful resolution. But an opening presentation can do more harm than good if delivered the wrong way, say Jann Johnson and William Haddad of ADR Systems LLC. Read full article » LEGAL INDUSTRY US Legal Industry Saw Best Growth In Nearly 10 Years This year has been the U.S. legal industry's best for growth in nearly 10 years, with firms at the large and small ends of the scale reaping the vast share of the rewards, according to a report released Tuesday. Read full article » Legal Hiring Poised For Boom In 2019 Nearly half of U.S. lawyers in charge of hiring say their law firm or corporate legal department is poised to expand in the next six months, with the majority predicting that litigation will be the biggest driver of that growth, according to the results of a survey released Tuesday. Read full article » Microsoft Singles Out Davis Wright For Diversity Efforts Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday recognized Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as the top-performing law firm participating in its diversity program, as the technology company celebrates the 10th anniversary of its effort to address diversity issues in the legal industry. Read full article » Senate OKs Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Despite Flake Opposition The U.S. Senate relied on Vice President Mike Pence for the first time to confirm one of President Donald Trump's appeals court judges, as he cast the tie-breaking vote for Eighth Circuit nominee Jonathan Kobes over the objections of Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Read full article » California's Harris To Keep Senate Judiciary Seat California is set to have both of its senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee next year, as a leadership deal allowed potential presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., to keep her spot on the panel. Read full article » EFTA00032412

Court Reporting Co. Must Follow Calif. Regs A California state appeals court refused Friday to revive a court reporter's unfair competition suit against major court-reporting firm U.S. Legal Support Inc., but held that a lower court incorrectly absolved the company of the obligation to comply with California regulations for licensed professionals. Read full article » Stormy Daniels Owes Trump Attys $300K In Fees, Sanctions Stormy Daniels must pay President Donald Trump's attorneys approximately $300,000 in fees, costs and sanctions, which was less than half of what they originally sought, a California federal judge ordered Tuesday following the dismissal of the adult film star's defamation suit against the president. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening Associate - Business Litigation (Wilmington, DE) McCarter & English Wilmington, Delaware ASSOCIATE - CORPORATE (BOSTON, MA OFFICE) McCarter & English. LLP Boston. Massachusetts Labor & Employment Associate Nixon Peabody LLP Jericho, New York Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask your librarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However. if you'd rather not receive future emails of this sort you may unsubsctibe here. Please DO NOT reply to this email. For customer support inquiries, please call + I-646-781.7 IOC/or visit our Contact Us page. Privacy Policy Law360 I Portfolio Media Inc. Ill West 19th Street. Sth Floor. New York. NY I0DI I EFTA00032413