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October 01, 2018
Scammer Get Your Gun: Court To Let Securities Felon Carry
A Washington, D.C., federal judge appears to have become the first jurist to find that people convicted of securities fraud and bookkeeping violations are exempt from a law prohibiting felons from owning guns, rejecting a bid by the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a former CEO's Second Amendment suit on Friday.
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July 11, 2018
Securities Fraudster Properly Denied Firearms, DOJ Says
A former Brocade CEO should not be allowed to own guns because his securities fraud conviction falls outside the list of specific nonviolent felonies that Congress said do not void an individual's gun ownership rights, a U.S. Department of Justice attorney told a D.C. federal judge in oral arguments Wednesday.
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August 15, 2017
Ex-Exec Claims Securities Fraudsters Can Legally Own Guns
A Montana-based former technology company executive convicted of fraud has hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions' personal lawyer to bring a lawsuit on Monday arguing a ban on convicts owning guns contains an exemption for “securities and accounting offenses.”