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An internet infrastructure company run by Russian tech exec Aleksej Gubarev played a role in the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party leaders, according to a report by a former government cybersecurity official that was unsealed Thursday as part of a defamation suit Gubarev had brought against BuzzFeed Inc… Read this piece in its entirety at
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ussian telecommunications group Mobile TeleSystems PJSC and a subsidiary agreed to pay $850 million related to U.S. authorities’ allegations that the company bribed an Uzbek official to win $2.4 billion worth of business, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday… This piece was co-authored with Rachel Graf. Read it in its entirety at Law360.
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A D.C. federal judge took self-described political dirty trickster and Trump campaign veteran Roger Stone to task on Tuesday, saying the release of a preview to his book on the internet violated a gag order she had imposed last month… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is facing the possibility of spending nearly a quarter-century behind bars for bank and tax fraud, and special counsel Robert Mueller’s office said Friday it didn’t see “any mitigating factors” that the Virginia federal court should consider when handing down a final sentence… Read this piece in its
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