White Collar
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Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander agreed Friday to plead guilty to a federal felony in a case in which he was accused of obstructing a probe into whether he accepted cash, escort services and other bribes from a land developer… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A former tribal chairman has pled guilty to embezzlement charges in South Dakota federal court as part of a deal aimed at resolving allegations he aided a corruption ring that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tribe’s coffers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Lori Loughlin and other parents caught up in the “Varsity Blues” college admission scandal urged a Massachusetts federal court on Wednesday to throw out the “sham” case against them, saying prosecutors had hidden information that could prove their innocence… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urged a New York federal court on Friday to grant it a quick win in a case accusing Kik Interactive Inc. of conducting an unregistered initial coin offering of $100 million worth of its Kin cryptocurrency in 2017, $55 million of which was bought by U.S. investors… Read this
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A Florida federal judge on Monday tossed a whistleblower suit against a Sunshine State company that makes lightning prediction systems, while giving the whistleblowers a road map for how to refile part of their case claiming the company knowingly sold faulty equipment to the U.S. government… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 