May 09, 2016
The U.S. government urged a New York federal judge Friday to uphold an order requiring former Bryan Cave LLP transactional attorney Harvey Newkirk to pay $3.1 million in restitution to lenders he was convicted of defrauding as part of a failed scheme to buy Maxim magazine.
April 29, 2016
Former Bryan Cave LLP transactional attorney Harvey Newkirk on Thursday launched an appeal of his fraud conviction and prison sentence for a purported scheme to defraud lenders of $8 million as part of a failed ploy to acquire Maxim magazine.
April 21, 2016
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff hit Harvey Newkirk with a six-month prison term Thursday, completing the former Bryan Cave LLP transactional lawyer's fall from BigLaw to the big house for scheming to fleece lenders out of $8 million for a failed magazine acquisition.
April 19, 2016
The federal government on Tuesday blasted an ex-Bryan Cave LLP attorney's request for probation after being convicted of wire fraud in connection with a failed bid to acquire Maxim magazine, saying his refusal to acknowledge his crime warrants a "significant" prison sentence.
April 18, 2016
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff on Monday upheld the criminal wire fraud conviction of a former Bryan Cave LLP transactional attorney accused of helping a client defraud lenders of $8 million as part of a failed ploy to acquire Maxim magazine, saying the former attorney's argument was flawed.
April 14, 2016
The federal government on Thursday urged a New York federal judge to sentence former Bryan Cave LLP attorney Harvey Newkirk to a "significant" prison sentence and order him to pay $3.3 million in restitution after he was convicted of wire fraud, while Newkirk argued for probation in his own filing.
February 19, 2016
The federal government told a New York federal court Thursday that former Bryan Cave LLP attorney Harvey Newkirk doesn't deserve a retrial or reversal of his wire fraud conviction in connection with a failed bid to acquire Maxim magazine, saying "overwhelming evidence" proves he actively participated in the scheme.
January 28, 2016
Former Bryan Cave LLP attorney Harvey Newkirk asked a New York federal judge Thursday to grant a retrial or reverse his criminal wire fraud conviction in connection with a failed bid to acquire Maxim magazine, arguing there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction.
December 14, 2015
A New York federal jury on Monday convicted a former Bryan Cave LLP transactional attorney of criminal wire fraud, after the lawyer was accused of helping a client defraud lenders of $8 million as part of a failed ploy to acquire Maxim magazine.
December 10, 2015
Jurors in the fraud trial of former Bryan Cave LLP lawyer Harvey Newkirk over a failed bid to acquire Maxim magazine completed their first day of deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict, after a New York federal prosecutor and defense attorney made their final pitches to the panel.