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This document is an email newsletter from White Collar Law360 dated June 17, 2021, providing summaries of various legal news stories. Key articles include updates on Biden's anti-corruption push, a Russian oligarch client of Greenberg Traurig, and a specific report on Ghislaine Maxwell complaining about prison conditions, including 'raw sewage' and guards monitoring her legal calls. The document also lists numerous law firms, companies, and government agencies involved in current legal proceedings.

People (11)

Name Role Context
Ghislaine Maxwell Defendant/Inmate
Complaining about prison conditions ('raw sewage') and guards listening to privileged conversations.
Joe Biden President of the United States
Mentioned in relation to his 'Anti-Corruption Push'.
Roger Ng Former Goldman Sachs Managing Director
Facing trial in January for 1MDB scandal.
Vladimir Putin Russian President
Linked to a Russian oligarch client of Greenberg Traurig.
Roger Stone Defendant
Subject of a $2 million unpaid tax suit in Florida.
Chris Lischewski Former Bumble Bee CEO
Fighting antitrust conviction at 9th Circuit.
Lina Khan FTC Chair
Confirmed and sworn in as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Thomas V. Girardi Trial Lawyer
Embattled attorney facing bankruptcy and malpractice suits.
Erika Girardi TV Personality/Wife of Thomas Girardi
Pursued by ex-clients for collections.
Andrew Cuomo Governor of New York
Urged by NY DAs to veto a conduct commission bill.
Kelsi Brown Corkran Supreme Court Director
Named director at Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

Timeline (3 events)

2021-06-15
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced $6 million donation.
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2021-06-16
Ex-NASA Chief sentenced to 30 days in prison for hiding ties to China.
New York
Ex-NASA Chief Federal Judge
2021-06-16
Lina Khan confirmed and sworn in as FTC Chair.
Washington D.C.

Relationships (3)

Ghislaine Maxwell Adversarial Federal Prison Guards
Maxwell claims guards are listening to her privileged conversations.
Vladimir Putin Political/Associate Russian Oligarch Client
Article mentions the oligarch is 'Vladimir Putin-linked'.
Greenberg Traurig Attorney-Client Russian Oligarch Client
Article states the oligarch is a client of the firm.

Key Quotes (3)

"Ghislaine Maxwell cannot defend herself against child sex-trafficking charges with feces raining down in her cell and federal prison guards listening in on her privileged conversations."
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"With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption... companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their compliance programs."
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"Greenberg Traurig successfully lobbied for a New York state bill that will make it harder to enforce foreign judgments, which could be worth $700 million or more to a Vladimir Putin-linked Russian oligarch."
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From: White Collar Law360
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Subject: 5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:35:33 +0000
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Analysis
5 Ways Companies Can Prep For Biden's Anti-Corruption Push
With President Joe Biden gung-ho about fighting corruption, new anti-money
laundering rules looming, and vulnerabilities that were amplified by
the pandemic, companies should act now to reexamine and bolster their
compliance programs, experts say.
Read full article »
Robbins Geller Wants To Fight FIFA Suit DQ At 2nd Circ.
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has asked a New York federal judge to
give the firm time to appeal his ruling that it committed fraud worthy of
disqualification by failing to disclose short positions held by the lead plaintiff
in a securities class action stemming from the FIFA corruption scandal, a
request the defendant company said comes way too late.
2 documents attached I Read full article
Greenberg Traurig's NY Bill May Aid Russian Oligarch Client
Greenberg Traurig successfully lobbied for a New York state bill that will
make it harder to enforce foreign judgments, which could be worth $700
million or more to a Vladimir Putin-linked Russian oligarch who is a client of
the firm. The state senator who sponsored the bill had no idea.
Letter attached I Read full article »
Ex-Goldman Exec's Virus-Delayed 1MDB Trial Set For January
Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng will face trial in January
over his purported role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, a
New York federal judge said Tuesday, rescheduling the proceeding after a
pandemic-related delay.
Read full article »
ENRC Adviser Regrets Lying In SFO Tipoff About Dechert Atty
A former ENRC security consultant testified on Wednesday that he regretted
lying in an anonymous letter he sent to the Serious Fraud Office accusing a
Dechert attorney investigating alleged corruption at the Kazakh mining
company of colluding with the agency's officials.
Read full article »
NYC Bar Wants Arrest Question On Bar Application Amended
The New York City Bar Association has urged the New York state court
system not to ask state bar applicants about their involvement with the
juvenile justice system or criminal cases that were sealed, adjourned or
dismissed.
Read full article »
Ex-Cognizant Execs Want Cooperator's Bribery Probe Docs
Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives charged with
foreign bribery are seeking to force an Indian conglomerate to hand over
information that could help clear their names, arguing that a New Jersey
federal court has jurisdiction over the conglomerate because it cooperated
with U.S. investigators.
Motion attached I Read full article »
Jailed Maxwell Decries 'Raw Sewage,' Nosy Guards
Ghislaine Maxwell cannot defend herself against child sex-trafficking charges
with feces raining down in her cell and federal prison guards listening in on
her privileged conversations, one of her attorneys told a Manhattan federal
judge in a letter Tuesday.
Letter attached I Read full article »
Ex-NASA Chief Gets 30 Days For Hiding Ties To China
A New York federal judge on Wednesday hesitantly sentenced a NASA
nanotechnology pioneer to 30 days in prison for concealing his ties to the
Chinese government, pointing out that defendants with lesser bona fides are
routinely locked up for lying to the government.
2 documents attached I Read full article »
COMPLIANCE
Ex-City National VP Says He Was Fired For Tax Whistleblowing
A former senior vice president for the Royal Bank of Canada's U.S.
subsidiary City National Bank sued his ex-employer in California federal
court, claiming he was wrongfully fired because he raised concerns about
possible tax fraud and misconduct.
Complaint attached I Read full article »
SECURITIES
Trader Pushes Back Against Witness In Illumina Insider Trial
Counsel for a San Diego stock speculator accused of insider trading worked
Wednesday to undermine the credibility of a former Illumina Inc. accountant
who told a Manhattan jury she tipped him to earnings secrets in exchange for
envelopes stuffed with cash.
Read full article »
6 Members Of $1.7M Tech Insider Trading Ring Get Pinned
Three members of an alleged $1.7 million insider trading ring were hit with
criminal charges Tuesday, while much of the ring settled claims lobbed by the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they traded off of material
nonpublic information on two technology companies.
4 documents attached I Read full article
PUBLIC INTEGRITY
Former Boston Cop 4th To Admit Stealing OT Pay
A retired Boston cop detailed to the department's evidence warehouse
admitted Wednesday to embezzling more than $36,000 from the city by filing
for overtime hours she never worked, becoming the fourth officer to plead
guilty in the scheme.
Read full article »
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
GSK Denied Restitution In Trade Secrets Theft Case
A Pennsylvania federal judge said Monday that GlaxoSmithKline LLC is not
entitled to recoup fees and costs incurred by outside counsel from DLA Piper
as part of a criminal case over trade secrets stolen from the company.
Opinion attached I Read full article »
ENVIRONMENTAL
Feds Say No To Vacating Guilty Plea In $42M Pollution Case
Government prosecutors urged a Pennsylvania federal judge to reject a
contractor's bid to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing there was no difference or
conflict of interest between him and his company when he copped to
dumping pollutants in the Susquehanna River during a bridge restoration
project.
Brief attached I Read full article >>
APPELLATE
1st Circ. OKs Hefty Prison Term For Lottery, Emerald Hoaxes
The First Circuit on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 13-year prison
sentence for an Ohio man who sweet-talked victims into parting with their
retirement savings and other investments with colorful schemes about uncut
emeralds and vast lottery winnings frozen in a New York bank account.
Opinion attached I Read full article »
HEALTH
Analysis
Escobar 5 Years Later: How FCA Earthquake Is Reverberating
Five years ago Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed a billing
dispute tied to one patient's treatment at a Massachusetts clinic and in the
process rattled the nation's entire False Claims Act docket with new doctrine.
Here, Law360 explores the landmark case's aftermath and finds a litigation
landscape that hasn't come close to stabilizing.
Opinion attached I Read full article
NYC Doc Gets Over 4% Years For Taking Insys Kickbacks
A former New York City doctor on Wednesday was sentenced to more than
4% years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks
from now-defunct drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc. in exchange for
prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to his patients.
Read full article »
Humana Claims In Telemed RICO Case Advance In Fla. Court
A Florida federal judge has ruled that a telemedicine company and several
physicians cannot escape Humana's lawsuit accusing them of preying on its
policyholders through a complex nationwide scheme that allegedly billed the
insurer for millions of dollars' worth of unnecessary prescription creams.
Order attached I Read full article »
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
San Antonio Man Admits To Role In Air Force Fraud Scheme
A former U.S. Air Force civilian employee has pled guilty to receiving more
than $2.3 million in kickbacks and bribes in return for his help in securing
multimillion-dollar government contracts through a fraud scheme that lasted
more than a decade.
Read full article »
TAX
Magistrate Assigned To Roger Stone's $2M Tax Case Recuses
A U.S. magistrate judge assigned to Roger Stone's $2 million unpaid tax suit
in Florida recused himself from the case Wednesday.
Order attached I Read full article »
COMPETITION
Ex-Bumble Bee CEO Fights Antitrust Conviction At 9th Circ.
Former Bumble Bee CEO Chris Lischewski urged the Ninth Circuit on
Wednesday to overturn his conviction for his role in an alleged tuna price fixing conspiracy, arguing that the trial judge gave erroneous instructions that
provided jurors with too many details on antitrust law and led to his wrongful
conviction.
Read full article »
EXPERT ANALYSIS
Law Firm Talent Must Reflect Shifting US Demographics
Stephanie Scharf at Scharf Banks and Roberta Liebenberg at Fine Kaplan
analyze and project U.S. demographic trends to show that law firms that
hope to succeed long-term must recruit, retain and advance female lawyers
and lawyers of color, and they outline six steps for meeting these goals.
Read full article »
LEGAL INDUSTRY
Client Data Stolen From UK Law Firm Gateley In Cyberattack
London law firm Gateley PLC revealed on Wednesday that it has been
targeted by a cyberattack that resulted in some of its clients' information
being compromised, making it the latest casualty of an online security breach
in the legal industry.
Read full article »
7 More Firms Raise Associate Salaries
A host of law firms this week have moved to match Davis Polk & Wardwell
LLP and raise U.S. associates' starting salaries, and one firm has combined
the announcement with a plan to accelerate its promotion track.
Read full article »
Federal Claims Judge Confirmed To Md. District Court
A bipartisan Senate vote on Wednesday confirmed a DLA Piper alum to
move from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to a lifetime seat on Maryland's
federal district court.
Read full article »
Cravath Donating $6M Fee To Groups Supporting Civil Rights
Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced on Tuesday it will donate $6 million
it earned in attorney fees in pro bono work to five national and local Alabama
organizations supporting civil rights and diversity efforts.
Read full article »
Dechert Hit With Discrimination Suit By Ex-Billing Manager
A former billing manager at Dechert LLP said her supervisor created a hostile
work environment and set impossibly high standards for her because she
was Black, according to a racial discrimination lawsuit she filed against the
firm in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.
Read full article »
Girardi's Ex-Clients Go After His Wife In State Malpractice Suit
Former clients of celebrity trial lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, along with the
bankruptcy trustee liquidating the embattled attorney's personal property,
have urged a California bankruptcy judge to lift a stay so the ex-clients can
continue their collection pursuit against his estranged wife, "Real Housewives
of Beverly Hills" star Erika Girardi.
Read full article »
Analysis
Khan Goes From Commissioner To Chair In Under 6 Hours
In a single afternoon, Lina Khan was confirmed to the Federal Trade
Commission, sworn in, and made its chair in a surprise move that sets up the
Big Tech critic for a role she was not anticipated to play and has left
observers wondering what to expect.
Read full article »
Marshals Need More Staff To Protect Judges, DOJ Report Says
Less than a year after the killing of a New Jersey federal judge's son by an
angry male rights attorney, a U.S. Department of Justice audit found that the
U.S. Marshals Service is understaffed and not properly equipped to protect
the judiciary.
Read full article »
Ex-Orrick Atty Now 'Supreme Court Director' At Georgetown
Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection has
named former Orrick partner Kelsi Brown Corkran as its first U.S. Supreme
Court director, a role in which she will manage the group's litigation strategy
for civil rights and criminal justice in the nation's top court.
Read full article »
NY DAs Urge Gov. Cuomo To Veto Conduct Commission Bill
An association that represents New York state prosecutors urged Gov.
Andrew Cuomo to veto a recently passed bill that would create an oversight
body to investigate prosecutorial misconduct complaints, saying that the
commission would delay and interfere with attorney discipline.
Read full article »
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