White Collar
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Two of the owners of the landmark Philadelphia cheesesteak spot Tony Luke’s have been charged with carrying out an $8 million tax dodging scheme that involved false reports to government authorities and under-the-table payments to employees, federal prosecutors announced Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Prosecutors opposing the release of a former Green Beret and his son while they battle extradition to Japan have said the son of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn paid the pair $500,000 through the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, in addition to $862,500 in wire transfers already disclosed, in the months leading up to Ghosn’s brazen escape… Read
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President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his friend and adviser Roger Stone, who had been ordered to serve 40 months in prison following his convictions for witness tampering, lying to Congress and obstructing probes into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Roger Stone told a D.C. federal appeals court on Monday that a lower court hadn’t properly considered the longtime conservative operative’s susceptibility to COVID-19 when ordering him to report to prison in a matter of weeks, rather than months, as he’d requested… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The First Circuit said Wednesday that Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and other former executives can’t dodge prison while they appeal convictions on charges of scheming to bribe doctors to prescribe the company’s fentanyl spray, but they’re asking the trial court to put off their prison surrender date… Read this piece in its entirety
Mike LaSusa 