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The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted cert in Kousisis v. United States in which the Court may narrow the scope of the mail and wire...
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On September 20, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Marschall, 2023 U.S. App. LEXIS 24886...
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On September 29, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced charges against 10 financial firms for apparent...
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On August 8, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) resolved their...
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The False Claims Act seeks to protect the federal fisc from fraud. Under the Act, the government may sue alleged violators, but private...
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Fourteen countries -- all part of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity -- met recently to negotiate a first-of-its-kind...
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Earlier this year, we anticipated that DOJ would “focus not only on more sophisticated corporate-level pandemic fraud but also on banks...
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Demonstrating the Department of Justice (“DOJ”)'s continued focus on corporate crime, the DOJ has launched a new database tracking all...
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On June 5, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
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Imagine a non-U.S. person who devises an allegedly fraudulent foreign investment program in a foreign land. The only connection to the...
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A few days after the U.S. Supreme Court in Ciminelli v. United States narrowed the scope of the wire and mail fraud statutes (link to...
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On May 3, 2023, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York found Nathaniel Chastain, a former manager at OpenSea, the world’s...
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Over the past few years, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has claimed increasing authority in the regulation of digital...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which enforces federal consumer financial laws, has been an active regulator. On...
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On December 1, 2022, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it is formulating new guidance on how it will evaluate...
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Prompted by the news of last week’s bankruptcy, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked at a recent press conference if...