corruption
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The owner of an insurance conglomerate asked a North Carolina federal court on Thursday to toss a criminal case charging him with conspiring to bribe the state’s insurance commissioner by offering cash to shut down a troublesome investigation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California Republican Congressman Duncan D. Hunter illegally used campaign cash to finance extramarital affairs, and his wife might testify about other misuses of donated dollars, prosecutors said Monday in a flurry of filings in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter lambasted the government’s prosecution of a case accusing him of using more than a quarter-million dollars in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, calling it a political “charade” linked to his support for President Donald Trump… 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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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.
Mike LaSusa 