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From: White Collar Law360 <[email protected]> To: Subject: 'Everybody In The Crosshairs' As DOJ Opioid Blitz Gets Real Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:45:15 +0000 1D-aw360 White Collar WHITE COLLAR Monday, July 22, 2019 Follow Law360 TOP NEWS ;.,,'Law360 Pro Say Podcast Analysis 'Everybody In The Crosshairs' As DOJ Opioid Blitz Gets Real The U.S. Department of Justice's newest indictment of a painkiller distributor and its executives strongly suggests that the agency has embarked on a calculated criminal crackdown after years of civil enforcement failed to ease the opioid epidemic. Indictment attached I Read full article » Craig Won't Use Ukraine Report From Judge's Firm At Trial Ex-Skadden partner Gregory Craig indicated Friday he didn't want to introduce at his upcoming trial a Ukraine-focused report authored by lawyers at the former firm of the D.C. federal judge overseeing his criminal case. Listen to our new podcast here Read full article » LAW FIRMS Rep. Asks Feds If DOJ Policy Shielded Trump From Indictment Addleshaw Goddard The head of the House Oversight Committee wants federal prosecutors to Akin Gump explain whether a U.S. Department of Justice policy that bars indicting a sitting president impacted the decision not to indict President Donald Trump Allen & Overy following allegations that he violated campaign finance laws by paying off Arnold & Porter women he had affairs with. Ashurst LLP Letter attached I Read full article Barrett & Singal Boles Schiller Ex-Credit Suisse Director Cops To Role In $2B Loan Fraud Cahill Gordon A former Credit Suisse managing director on Friday admitted to his role in a Caplin & Drysdale bribery and investor fraud scheme involving $2 billion in loans to state- backed companies in Mozambique, telling a New York federal judge he Cadton Fields conspired to defraud those who invested in the debt. Casner & Edwards Read full article » Covington & Burling Dechert Hooper Lundy OK To Rep Husband & Wife In Varsity Blues' Drinker Biddle A California couple charged in the nationwide college admissions case Duane Morris known as "Varsity Blues" told a Massachusetts federal judge they are comfortable having Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC represent them both, Edwards Pottinger despite several concerns raised by prosecutors during a hearing Friday. Eversheds Sutherland Read full article » Fenton Law Group Foreman Friedman Courts Bolster Compassionate Release Under First Step Gerger Khalil Among the thousands of inmates released because of reforms under the Gibson Dunn First Step Act, a small group of prisoners have been granted compassionate release this year, many of them taking advantage of a new provision letting Goodwin them make their case for release in court. Greenberg Traurig EFTA00083741 Read full article » Holland & Knight Palm Beach Sheriff To Probe Epstein Work Release Hooper Lundy The Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office announced on Friday an internal Husch Blackwell investigation into the Florida departments supervision of financier Jeffrey Irell & Manella Epstein when he was jailed there a decade ago on sex crime charges, after a lawyer for some of Epstein's alleged victims implied the accused child rapist Jones Day had abused the privileges of his work release. Katten Muchin Read full article » Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins SECURITIES Littler Mendelson Loeb & Loeb Judge Won't Let HSBC Hong Kong Kill Discovery In Ponzi Suit A New York federal judge on Friday said he would not reconsider his decision Markus/Moss to order jurisdictional discovery for claims that HSBC's Hong Kong affiliate Mayer Brown aided a Ponzi scheme that pulled $37 million from investors' pockets. McDermott Will Order attached I Read full article McElroy Deutsch Miller & James Engine Maker Execs Inflated Revenues By $25M, Feds Say Morgan Lewis An Illinois-based alternative-energy engine maker's former executives got hit Nixon Peabody with criminal and civil securities fraud charges Friday over claims they engaged in an accounting fraud scheme that inflated company revenues by Pepper Hamilton $25 million. Proskauer Rose 2 documents attached I Read full article » Reed Smith Ropes & Gray CFTC Gets $2.9M Win Against No-Show Alleged Fraudster Rothschild Barry A Texas federal judge granted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission a SeegerWeiss $2.9 million final judgment on Friday against an alleged fraudster who never Skadden appeared in the case or responded to the agency's complaint. Steptoe & Johnson LLP Order attached I Read full article » Stradling Yocca PUBLIC INTEGRITY Todd & Weld Trout Cacheris Ex-NSA Contractor Gets 9 Years For Classified Doc Theft Troutman Sanders A former National Security Agency contractor was sentenced to nine years in Ward & Hagen prison on Friday after amassing a hoard of top-secret and other classified Weil Gotshal documents over the course of roughly two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Wilentz Goldman Read full article » Willkie Fan WilmerHale Analysis Zeichner Ellman Massachusetts Cases To Watch: Midyear Report Zuckerman Spaeder Boston courthouses have been hopping as spring has turned to summer and high-profile white collar cases, the anticipated verdict in a landmark COMPANIES education and employment case, and a pair of cases dealing with courthouse American Bar Association immigration arrests have been filling up the Bay State's dockets. Here, Law360 highlights some of the most important cases to watch in the second American Media Inc. half of 2019. AmerisourceBergen Corp. Read full article » Baltimore Ravens Bank Policy Institute CYBERSECURITY Barnes & Noble Inc. BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois Targeted Ransomware Attacks Soar, Symantec Reports The number of targeted ransomware attacks has skyrocketed in the past Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. year as new attackers have increasingly emerged, cybersecurity giant Burford Capital LLC Symantec Corp. said in a recent report. Carnival Corp. Read full article » Chevron Corp. Cigna Corp. Fraud Ring Posing As Gov't Officials, DHS Watchdog Warns Credit Suisse Group AG EFTA00083742 The Department of Homeland Security's watchdog has issued an alert about Getty Images Inc. a scheme by an Atlanta-based transnational fraud ring that poses as Google Inc. government procurement officials to steal electronics from unsuspecting HSBC Holdings PLC contractors. Read full article » Hertz Global Holdings Inc. After Delay, Pa. Programmer Pleads To Siemens Sabotage Honeywell International Inc. A Pittsburgh-area computer programmer pled guilty in federal court Friday to Humana Inc. planting code that would deliberately break programs he'd written under Independence Blue Cross Inc. contract with Siemens Corp., after his previous plea hearing was halted in Instagram Inc. June amid disagreements over whether his motivation should have been International Brotherhood of considered. Electrical Workers Read full article » Major Lindsey & Africa TRANSPORTATION McKesson Corp. NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. 2nd Circ. Revives NYC Taxi Drivers' Unfair Suspension Suits NFL Enterprises LLC The Second Circuit ruled Friday that New York City's practice of summarily National Association of Letter suspending licenses for taxi drivers who've been arrested but not yet Carriers convicted deprives them of due process by denying them meaningful New Jersey State Bar Association opportunities to challenge their suspensions. New York Times Co. Opinion attached I Read full article » Northeastern University HEALTH Petrobras Power Solutions International Inc. 7th Circ. Affirms 5-Year Sentence For Chiropractor's Fraud Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a five-year sentence for an Illinois Princeton University chiropractor found guilty of health care fraud, saying he failed to show Purdue Pharma LP evidence of an error that could have gotten him a lighter sentencing recommendation. QUALCOMM Inc. Opinion attached I Read full article » Rochester Drug Cooperative Inc. Siemens AG 4 Arrested Over $10M Medicaid Fraud Via NYC Pharmacy Silverfleet Capital LLP A New York City pharmacy owner and three of her managers were arrested Spotify Technology SA over a multifaceted scheme that included bribing customers to have their HIV State Bar of California drug prescriptions filled there and over $10 million in Medicaid fraud, the New Symantec Corp. York attorney general announced Friday. Twitter Inc. Complaint attached I Read full article » Virage Capital Management LP ENVIRONMENTAL Weaver LLP Yale University Judge Chides Carnival Execs To Take Lead On Pollution Fixes YouTube Inc. A frustrated Florida federal judge pressed Carnival Corp. leaders Friday to demonstrate their commitment to changing the company's approach after GOVERNMENT AGENCIES agreeing last month to pay $20 million for violating a previous settlement for Central Intelligence Agency illegal dumping. Commodity Futures Trading Read full article » Commission Department of Commerce TAX Drug Enforcement Administration European Commission Banque Bonhote Pays DOJ $1.2M More Over US Accounts European Union Switzerland-based Banque Bonhote & Cie SA agreed Friday to pay $1.2 million extra to the U.S. for failing to disclose eight U.S.-related bank Federal Acquisition Regulatory accounts with approximately $33 million in assets when it first struck a Council nonprosecution agreement in 2015. Federal Bureau of Investigation 1 document attached I Read full article 0 Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission Sens. Seek Info On Appraiser In Easement Donation Probe Food and Drug Administration Internal Revenue Service EFTA00083743 Senate Finance Committee lawmakers said Friday they requested Judicial Conference of the United information from an Alabama real estate licensing board about an appraiser States who is alleged to have participated in abusive conservation easement National Labor Relations Board transactions that resulted in $1.8 billion in federal tax deductions. National Reconnaissance Office Letter attached I Read full article National Security Agency PEOPLE Securities and Exchange Commission Money Moves: Covington, Weil, Eversheds Sutherland U.S. Attorney's Office Covington & Burling LLP snagged a lobbying firm's formal general counsel, Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP added to its London office U.S. Court of Appeals for the and Eversheds Sutherland is building out its banking team after a record Second Circuit year — this is Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in the banking U.S. Court of Appeals for the arena. Seventh Circuit Read full article » U.S. Department of Homeland Security LEGAL INDUSTRY U.S. Department of Justice U.S. Department of Labor Exclusive U.S. Department of the Treasury Ailing NFL Players And The Lawyer They Say Swindled Them U.S. District Court for the District of The inside story of how an avaricious lawyer, an ex-con and an unlicensed Maryland doctor preyed on NFL players in hopes of getting rich off the league's U.S. District Court for the District of landmark concussion settlement. Massachusetts Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York Why Some Straddle The Line Between Law Firm And GC Gigs U.S. District Court for the Northern Some lawyers take the rare step of simultaneously holding roles at law firms and corporate legal departments. It can mean balancing time commitments District of Georgia and watching out for conflicts, but also richer portfolios of experience for U.S. District Court for the Northern those lawyers — and cost-effective options for companies. District of Illinois Read full article » U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Law Firms Are Getting Less Of The Corporate Legal Pie U.S. District Court for the Southern Corporations are moving more work in-house and have increased their District of New York reliance on alternative legal service providers, and that trend is expected to U.S. District Court for the Western continue, according to the results of a survey released Thursday. District of Pennsylvania Read full article » U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Justice Gorsuch Tells Law Student: Work Hard, Be Kind U.S. House of Representatives Since being sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice in 2017, Justice Neil U.S. Immigration and Customs Gorsuch has already penned several significant opinions for the high court. Enforcement But on Thursday, a very different piece of his writing drew the attention of thousands online — a letter he sent to a law student who had asked for his U.S. Navy advice. U.S. Senate Read full article )> U.S. Supreme Court Former NJ Chief District Judge, 70, Dies After Cancer Battle U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle, a former chief of New Jerseys federal bench who championed one of the nation's busiest courts amid its ongoing judicial vacancy crisis, has died at 70 after a battle with liver cancer, the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey and a longtime colleague said Friday. Read full article » Do Atty Hopefuls With Criminal Records Get A Fair Shake? Attorney hopefuls must undergo a "moral character" screening that is supposed to protect the public from unscrupulous lawyers, but a new report from Stanford has found that the way bar examiners evaluate criminal records often has little to do with that purpose. Read full article >> EFTA00083744 GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week The U.S. House of Representatives teed up a battle over minimum wage with the U.S. Senate, and groups of state attorneys general pushed for more federal guidance on cannabis as well as competition in labor markets. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. Read full article » In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Read full article » Podcast Law360's Pro Say: Remembering Justice Stevens John Paul Stevens, a liberal icon who spent more than three decades as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, died July 16 at the age of 99. On this week's show, Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover breaks down the life and legal legacy of the late justice. Read full article » JOBS Search full listings or advertise your job opening White Plains insurance boutique seeks associate defense litigator KLR Davis White Plains, New York Not sure if your firm subscribes? Ask your libtarian. We hope you found this message to be useful. However. if you'd rather not receive future emails of this son. you may unsubsciibe here. Please DO NOT reply to this email. For customer support inquiries, please call + I -646-783.7100 or visit our Contact Us page. Privacy Policy Law360I Ponfolio Media. Inc, Ill Hest 19th Street, Sth Floor. New York, NY 10011 EFTA00083745