White Collar
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Federal prosecutors fired back on Tuesday against requests for sentencing accommodations in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions case related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is taking precautions against the spread of the new coronavirus… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former New York lawmaker Dean Skelos contracted COVID-19 and will likely be released soon from the prison where he’s serving time for a corruption conviction, attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice said in a Wednesday letter to a Manhattan federal judge… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York federal judge shot down a coronavirus-related compassionate release bid lodged by a former top deputy to notorious Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, saying Tuesday that the convict had to go through U.S. Bureau of Prisons channels first… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California-based law firm Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP has been hit with a lawsuit in Los Angeles court claiming one of its name partners was involved in Hollywood honcho Aaron Kaplan’s alleged plot to plant spy cameras in the bedroom of his brother’s widow… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A pair of Boston City Hall aides asked a Massachusetts federal court on Friday to reject a bid by the government to overturn a finding of prosecutorial misconduct in a case in which the aides were acquitted of charges that they extorted a music festival to hire unneeded union labor… Read this piece in its
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