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  • February 11, 2026

    Epstein Survivor Can Pursue Claims BofA 'Turned A Blind Eye'

    A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking enterprise has adequately alleged Bank of America "turned a blind eye" to a trove of public information that the disgraced financier was a serial sexual abuser while monetarily benefiting from the scheme, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday.

  • February 11, 2026

    PNC Customer's Improper Withdrawal Claims Can Proceed

    A Maryland federal judge has ruled that a PNC Bank customer has standing to challenge the bank's withdrawal of money from his checking account to cover a home-equity credit line, but dismissed his individual damages claim and asked for more briefing on his bid for class certification.

  • February 11, 2026

    DC Circ. Questions Denial Of CFTC Whistleblower Award

    The D.C. Circuit seemed skeptical Wednesday morning about the argument that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission wrongly denied a man a $147 million whistleblower incentive award after he tipped off the agency about foreign exchange market manipulation.

  • February 11, 2026

    NBA Pro Says He Would've Balked At Deal Over Adviser's Role

    A former New York Knicks shooting guard on Wednesday testified that he didn't know his former Morgan Stanley adviser had a stake in the player's $2.1 million life insurance investment and would have passed on the deal had he known, echoing testimony from two other NBA veterans.

  • February 11, 2026

    Paxful Sentenced To $4M Fine Over Compliance Failures

    A California federal judge sentenced now-shuttered crypto exchange Paxful Holdings Inc. to a $4 million penalty in line with a December 2025 plea agreement that saw the firm cop to anti-money laundering failures that enabled illicit transfers of criminal proceeds.

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