January 09, 2024
Former Archegos Capital Management CEO Bill Hwang and executive Patrick Halligan asked a Manhattan federal court to exclude a large trove of trading data from their upcoming trial, saying it was a "grave failure" for prosecutors to provide the data just weeks before a jury is due to hear the case.
September 14, 2023
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to reject a request from former Archegos executives Bill Hwang and Patrick Halligan to subpoena financial firms allegedly victimized by a fraud scheme, saying the defendants hadn't explained how the requested information was relevant to the case.
March 21, 2023
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected claims by Archegos founder Bill Hwang that Manhattan federal prosecutors engaged in improper subterfuge before hitting him with criminal charges in the wake of the $100 billion collapse of his once high-flying hedge fund.
February 17, 2023
A racketeering case over the collapse of investment firm Archegos could mark a tipping point in white collar prosecutors' use of RICO after the strategy backfired in another high-profile trial and as the U.S. Department of Justice places new emphasis on discretion.
January 13, 2023
Manhattan federal prosecutors denied they duped Archegos founder Bill Hwang into providing information in a stock fraud case by misrepresenting their intent to indict him, saying it was his counsel who approached the government about participating in two voluntary interviews and that they were on notice for weeks about potential charges.
January 02, 2023
The coming year's big cases developing in New York courts involve market-shaking Wall Street and crypto meltdowns, insider trading allegations and the legal woes of Donald Trump, among other politicians.
December 05, 2022
Federal prosecutors misrepresented their intention of indicting Archegos founder Bill Hwang in a stock fraud case and used that impression to gain information that he would not have otherwise provided, defense attorneys told a Manhattan federal judge.
September 08, 2022
Archegos founder Bill Hwang and the former chief financial officer of the private investment firm will stand trial in October 2023 over allegations they lied to banks to secure billions of dollars that they used to manipulate the stock market, a New York federal judge said Thursday.
June 01, 2022
An attorney for Archegos founder Bill Hwang on Wednesday gave an early look at the defense's plan to rebut claims that Hwang and others lied to banks in order to secure billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, calling the government's theory of the case "unprecedented."
May 19, 2022
Manhattan U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. on Thursday told Archegos founder Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang that he cannot preside over charges that Hwang engaged in a major fraud on Wall Street, disclosing that he holds shares of purported victim bank JPMorgan Chase.