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April 15, 2026
A Texas man accused of acting as an unregistered broker is fighting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's attempt to collect a $450,000 judgment against him, arguing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling renders the SEC's in-house case against him unconstitutional.
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April 15, 2026
A former Fiat Chrysler labor executive convicted for his role in a union bribery scheme could risk incriminating himself if he gives General Motors privileged information, including communications with his wife, as part of the latter automaker's civil lawsuit over alleged corruption, his attorney argued before a Michigan appeals court Wednesday.
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April 15, 2026
Two Los Angeles-area entrepreneurs have been accused of converting a warehouse into an illicit cannabis grow house to cultivate thousands of plants, according to a state court lawsuit by the city attorney's office, which seeks to impose tens of thousands of dollars in fines and permanently ban them from the industry.
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April 15, 2026
A former Citigroup and Cetera registered representative was hit with a final judgment Wednesday, putting her on the hook for $1.38 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly stealing $2.4 million from an elderly client.
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April 15, 2026
A lead attorney on the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's monopolization cases against Google LLC who left the agency last week joined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday as a partner.
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April 15, 2026
A cryptocurrency wallet platform seeks to enforce its $175 million deal to purchase a global payments company, accusing the company and its owner of "a blatant, reckless, and improper campaign" to keep the sale from closing.
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April 15, 2026
Families of 737 Max 8 crash victims have asked the full Fifth Circuit to review a panel's recent decision accepting the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for allegedly conspiring to defraud safety regulators, saying it allows corporate defendants to game the courts through a "mootness" loophole.
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April 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge has acquitted a Mexican businessman living in the U.S. whom a jury convicted of bribing foreign officials to secure business from Mexico's state-owned oil company, saying prosecutors didn't provide the translators who interpreted evidence at trial for cross-examination.
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April 15, 2026
The Second Circuit upheld convictions and judgments for defendants behind a $58 million IcomTech cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme after rejecting their arguments that there's no evidence they knew it was a fraud, ruling Wednesday "sufficient red flags existed" for the lower court to properly provide a "conscious avoidance" jury instruction.
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April 15, 2026
Uber and its auto insurer told a New York federal court that they are the victims of a scheme perpetrated by more than a dozen individuals who conspired to stage hit-and-run accidents and defraud the companies through sham personal injury claims and lawsuits.
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April 15, 2026
A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.
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April 15, 2026
A Texas federal court entered a $7,101,992 final judgment in favor of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission more than three years after it accused a Houston man of defrauding roughly 175 investors who thought their funds would be traded in foreign exchange markets for a profit.
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April 15, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has ordered UBS AG to hand some communications with its lawyers and prosecutors in U.S. and U.K. criminal cases to former trader Tom Hayes, whose $400 million lawsuit claims he was made a scapegoat to shield senior bank executives from Libor-rigging allegations.
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April 15, 2026
Nadine Menendez urged a Manhattan federal judge to keep her free while she challenges her conviction, arguing that prosecutors deprived her of her constitutional right to the counsel of her choice.
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April 15, 2026
The former CFO of four related cannabis companies, who is accused of embezzling from those companies, is urging a California state court to disqualify the plaintiffs' attorneys, saying there is a conflict of interest between the company plaintiffs and the individual plaintiffs.
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April 15, 2026
Morrison Foerster LLP announced Wednesday that it has expanded its investigations and white collar defense group with a partner in San Francisco who has served as an assistant U.S. attorney and as a deputy attorney general with the California Attorney General's Office.
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April 14, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday indicated she was leaning toward granting class certification for Alphabet Inc. investors in a suit against the Google parent company over an allegedly false statement CEO Sundar Pichai made to Congress in 2020 about the fairness of ad auctions.
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April 14, 2026
Six years after the first #MeToo verdict against Harvey Weinstein, a New York state judge on Tuesday began picking a jury for the disgraced producer's third rape trial in Manhattan and ruling on what evidence would come in.
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April 14, 2026
A Colorado state judge sentenced a Denver-area contractor to 10 years in prison for his part in stealing more than $1.4 million from homeowners through a home remodeling fraud scheme, the state attorney general's office announced Tuesday.
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April 14, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday backed JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s early win in a lawsuit brought by a jet chartering company alleging it was defamed as it was placed on an internal blacklist, ruling that the bank hadn't made any false statements in explaining to customers why it blocked the company's transactions.
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April 14, 2026
The former chief operating officer of Atlanta's High Museum of Art has been charged with stealing from a federally funded program over allegations that he embezzled more than $600,000 from the institution, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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April 14, 2026
A co-founder of a cryptocurrency data company has accused his former partner and affiliates of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act through a $58 million fraudulent scheme that he says involved diverting virtual tokens from a company offering to offshore vehicles and attempting to shift the blame with retaliatory litigation.
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April 14, 2026
An internet tabloid renewed its efforts to obtain investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and urged a New York federal court to reconsider a decision blocking a public records request to the FBI, arguing that a documents release pursuant to an act of Congress isn't complete.
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April 14, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday significantly limited the extent of former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander's upcoming trial over a ticket he got for obstructing hallways at a building as he monitored Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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April 14, 2026
The Fourth Circuit affirmed Tuesday a former hospital transplant coordinator's conviction for illegally accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records, upholding a ruling that the defendant was not improperly coerced when he told FBI agents a coworker or his cat may have been responsible.