Insys Therapeutics Inc. executives got part of the landmark opioid verdict against them thrown out, showing overreach by Boston federal prosecutors as well as the high bar of evidence needed to prove a conspiracy to distribute legal drugs, experts told Law360.
White-Collar Crime
A federal judge has convicted a Los Angeles man of three counts of aggravated identity theft for using the secret codes of elderly Bank of America customers to make fraudulent withdrawals at ATMs in Los Angeles and Orange County.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cyber Unit has filed its first case, freezing an initial coin offering which, according to the SEC, is a $15 million investor fraud.
On October 27, 2017 former Trump campaign chairman, Paul J. Manafort was indicted on charges that included money laundering, tax fraud, and conspiracy.
In early October, a Greek judge ruled that one of the world’s highest profile financial cybercriminals, the suspected mastermind of a $4 billion bitcoin money laundering ring, should be extradited to the United States to stand trial.
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced last week that Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford has been charged with illegally receiving more than $60,000 a year from local consultants Kimberly Anne Shaw and Susan Burgess Miller and failing to disclose the income on economic statements.
The radical shift in focus of the Department of Justice compounded by the Trump administration’s 2018 budget cuts indicates drastic changes for the prosecution of white collar crimes.
On May 10th, Attorney General Sessions sent a follow-up memo to his March 8th opening memo to all federal prosecutors laying out the DOJ’s charging and sentencing policies.[i] In this memo, Sessions specifically outlined two directives for federal prosecutors.
Nina Marino’s key takeaways from Blockchain Technology & Digital Currency National Institute Conference last week in New York
The transition from the Obama administration to the Trump administration could mean big changes for the prosecution of white-collar crimes as the focus of the Department of Justice shifts.
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