White Collar
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An engineer who formerly worked at semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc. turned himself in on Friday to face charges in California federal court that he stole private financial information from his ex-employer, cashed in on illegal trades, and then fled to Taiwan when he was caught… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The court-appointed trustee of Bernie Madoff’s investment company has reached a deal to claw back nearly $600,000 from the wife of the convicted securities swindler, according to a Friday New York bankruptcy court filing… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Attorney General Bill Barr can work on a Justice Department probe of an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme involving the 1Malaysia Development Berhad sovereign wealth fund, despite his former employer Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s involvement in the case, according to an Office of Government Ethics waiver… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Univar Inc. has agreed to pay $62 million to resolve allegations in the U.S. Court of International Trade that it illegally tried to avoid tens of millions of dollars in anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made saccharin by shipping it through Taiwan, prosecutors announced Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling cut a deal that ends a 16-year-old lawsuit brought by a group of investors over losses on $120 million of Enron debt purchased shortly before the energy giant’s 2001 collapse, according to filings made Friday in New York federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 