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• March 30, 2026

  FinCEN Cautions On Benefits Fraud, Floats Tipster Award Plan

  The U.S. Department of the Treasury's illicit finance watchdog called Monday for banks to step up monitoring for Medicare and Medicaid fraud, issuing new guidance on flagging suspicious activity, which came as officials also moved to incentivize financial crime reporting with new draft rules to offer tipster rewards.

• March 30, 2026

  'Bikini Barista' Trial Over Wages Opens In Seattle Area

  Seattle-area "bikini barista" espresso stand owner Alan Tagle routinely underpaid employees, threatened to cut their hours for missed sales goals and pocketed their tips on slow days, counsel for a class of workers told a Washington state judge Monday during opening arguments in a bench trial.

• March 30, 2026

  Swiss Re Can't Shut Down 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

  A New York federal judge declined Monday to let Swiss Re's American unit escape a suit claiming it kept an underperforming investment fund in its retirement plan and failed to utilize forfeited cash, ruling the workers behind the case showed the company may have made shoddy management decisions.

• March 30, 2026

  $2.5B Stock Deal Shorting Claims Receive Class Treatment

  An Illinois federal judge has decided to give class treatment to a West Monroe Partners employee's claim that the consulting firm shortchanged workers by at least $50 million when it bought up their stock.

• March 30, 2026

  Chancellor Rejects Musk Recusal Bid But Transfers Tesla Suits

  The top judge of the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday rejected Elon Musk's bid to force her off three high-profile cases involving stockholders and Tesla, but reassigned the litigation anyway, citing concerns that intense public attention could undermine confidence in the proceedings.

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