Conspiracies

Appeals Court Strikes Fraud Sentence for Lack of Proof by Government

by Jeff Ifrah on 5/21/2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit recently ruled on an issue lying at the intersection of fraud conspiracies and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines: the government’s separate burden of proof against each co-defendant...more

Appeals Court Set to Consider Key Sentencing Issue on Profits Derived From Fraud

by Jeff Ifrah on 5/8/2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit is currently considering a sentencing issue of great significance in cases in which a number of individuals work together to bring about a financial fraud. The question posed is...more

Lawyer Couple Accused Of Planting Drugs On School Worker

by The Law Offices of Tacopina Seigel and... on 4/1/2013

A California couple has been accused of planting drugs on a volunteer at their son's elementary school. Kent Easter, 38, and Jill Easter, 39, are both lawyers, and have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to procure false...more

Recent Supreme Court Decision Clarifies Key Principles Concerning Withdrawal from Criminal Conspiracies

by Daniel Marx | Foley Hoag LLP on 3/29/2013

Smith v. United States Has Significant Implications for White Collar Prosecutions - In Smith v. United States, No. 11-8976 (Jan. 9, 2013), the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split at “the intersection of a withdrawal...more

Carsanaro, et al. v. Bloodhound Tech., Inc. et al., C.A. No. 7301-VCL (Del. Ch. Mar. 15, 2013) (Laster, V.C.)

by Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP on 3/28/2013

In this Opinion, the Court of Chancery denied, in large part, defendants’ motion to dismiss plaintiffs’ claims challenging several allegedly self-interested and dilutive transactions....more

Drug Trafficking Means Trouble

by Law Offices of Karl E. Knudsen on 3/19/2013

Alejandro Salinas Garcia, 31, and Cesar Sierro-Pineda, 34, are to spend life in prison following sentencing in separate cases, both filed in federal court. Garcia was convicted of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, having...more

If You Transfer Someone's Personal Identity Information, You Don't Necessarily Use It, And They Aren't A Victim Of Your Identity...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 3/15/2013

Erica Hall was an office assistant at an OB/GYN office in Coral Springs, Florida. The job may not have paid well, because Ms. Hall was trying to make some extra cash on the side by selling patient information to some folks...more

Queen Shoals Ponzi Scheme Defendant Pleads Guilty

by Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL on 3/14/2013

A United States District Court Judge for the Western District of North Carolina sentenced Gary D. Martin, of St. Augustine, Florida, to a 10-year prison sentence for his participation in a 30 million dollar commodities and...more

US Court Orders Wegelin to Pay a Total Penalty of $74 Million

by Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL on 3/14/2013

As has been widely reported, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York sentenced Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, to pay an additional $58 million after it admitted to helping wealthy...more

Judge Upholds U.S. Automobile Dealers In Fraud and Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Indian Truck Manufacturer Mahindra

by Michael Diaz Jr. - Diaz Reus International... on 3/8/2013

Originally published in PR Newswire on March 7, 2013 A federal judge has upheld a lawsuit by U.S. automobile dealers accusing Indian truck manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra, Ltd. and its U.S. counterpart of fraud,...more

Supreme Court Tightens Conspiracy Liability Rules: Implications for Antitrust Criminal Cases

by Michelle Lally, Christopher Naudie, Graham Reynolds | Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP on 3/7/2013

On March 1, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released an important ruling on the scope of criminal conspiracy in Canada and significantly restricted the “party liability” rules for conspiracy offences. This decision could...more

How to Be Anti-Troll Without Being Antitrust: A Six-Step Primer

by Jesse Jenike-Godshalk, Ria Schalnat | Dinsmore & Shohl LLP on 3/6/2013

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California recently addressed whether a “patent aggregator” (a.k.a. “anti-troll”), which is an organization formed by operating companies to protect against “non-practicing...more

New Zealand Court Hands U.S. a Victory in Kim Dotcom Piracy Case

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/4/2013

A year ago, we wrote about the indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia of the executives and founders of Megaupload, one of the leading file-hosting sites on the Web. The charges were copyright infringement through the...more

N.Y. Anti-Terror Law Diminishes Pursuit of Terrorism: Lawyer [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/27/2013

Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Catherine Amirfar, litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, talks about recently obtaining a landmark victory on behalf of her client, Edgar Morales, in the first ever case of a gang member tried...more

11th Circuit Case Signals Split on Law vs. Regulation vs. … Contract?

by Fuerst Ittleman David & Joseph, PL on 2/25/2013

On February 22, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated the smuggling and conspiracy convictions of two importers of allegedly tainted cheese products in the case of United States of America v. Yuri...more

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Extraterritorial Reach of California Antitrust Laws

by Robert G. Kidwell, Evan Nadel, Harvey Saferstein | Mintz Levin - Antitrust on 2/25/2013

In AT&T Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp., Ninth Circuit Case No. 11-16188 (Feb. 14, 2013), the Ninth Circuit held that California’s antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, could apply to a price fixing conspiracy of LCD panels...more

DocX Shutdown Part of $35M ‘Robosigning’ Fraud Settlement

by Michele Bowman | Lawyers.com on 2/22/2013

The Department of Justice on Feb. 15 announced a $35 million settlement with Lender Processing Services (LPS) subsidiary DocX, stemming from the so-called “robosigning” scandal of 2010. DocX was in the business of...more

Short Wins - President's Day Edition

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 2/19/2013

It's a scattershot collection of sentencing remands in this week's short wins....more

February 2013: Libor Litigation Update

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 2/18/2013

UBS and Barclays Acknowledge Making False Libor Submissions. Investigations into misconduct at UBS and Barclays have revealed pervasive corruption of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“Libor”), which provides a benchmark for...more

Ticking Time Bomb: Private LIBOR Litigation

by Michael Volkov on 2/13/2013

One by one global banks are being ensnared in the LIBOR prosecution net. Late last year UBS, the Swiss banking giant, entered into a massive settlement in which it agreed to pay approximately $1.5 billion in fines and...more

It's Hard To Lie (Though Not For The Reason You Think); Or You Haven't Made A False Statement If The Statement You Made Isn't...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 2/7/2013

Daniel Castro was a high-ranking person in the Philadelphia Police Department. And the Third Circuit's opinion in his case - United States v. Castro - may just be the most awesome published opinion I've seen in months....more

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

by Bloomberg Law on 2/6/2013

Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The dominance of Delaware and New York bankruptcy courts is secure for another two years, for reasons Bloomberg Law's Lee Pacchia and Bloomberg News bankruptcy columnist Bill Rochelle explain on their...more

When FBI Agents (Allegedly) Talk In The Hallway; Or Why Even A Lawyer Should Not Talk To The FBI If There's A Real Estate Fraud...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 1/29/2013

Marc Engelmann was accused of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, as well as bank and wire fraud. He was convicted at trial after some very shady stuff might have happened between two FBI agents. The Eighth Circuit...more

Lesson from Smith: Withdrawal from a Criminal Antitrust Conspiracy Must Be Affirmative

by William H. Devaney, Lisa Jose Fales, Paul Feinstein, Leonard L. Gordon | Venable LLP on 1/17/2013

In a narcotics case surprisingly relevant to the antitrust world, the United States Supreme Court recently addressed withdrawal from a criminal conspiracy. In Smith v. United States, a unanimous Court held that the burden...more

The First Circuit On Police Providing Information To Drug Dealers - You're Only In A Federal Drug Conspiracy If You Know It's A...

by Matthew G. Kaiser | The Kaiser Law Firm PLLC on 1/14/2013

It seems that Rolando Ramos was a marijuana dealer. I say that because the police had him on a wire doing drug deals, found marijuana in his house when they executed a search warrant, and because he pled guilty to being...more

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Appeals Court Strikes Fraud Sentence for Lack of Proof by Government

Appeals Court Set to Consider Key Sentencing Issue on Profits Derived From Fraud

Lawyer Couple Accused Of Planting Drugs On School Worker

Recent Supreme Court Decision Clarifies Key Principles Concerning Withdrawal from Criminal Conspiracies

Carsanaro, et al. v. Bloodhound Tech., Inc. et al., C.A. No. 7301-VCL (Del. Ch. Mar. 15, 2013) (Laster, V.C.)

Drug Trafficking Means Trouble

If You Transfer Someone's Personal Identity Information, You Don't Necessarily Use It, And They Aren't A Victim Of Your Identity...

Queen Shoals Ponzi Scheme Defendant Pleads Guilty

US Court Orders Wegelin to Pay a Total Penalty of $74 Million

Judge Upholds U.S. Automobile Dealers In Fraud and Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Indian Truck Manufacturer Mahindra

Supreme Court Tightens Conspiracy Liability Rules: Implications for Antitrust Criminal Cases

How to Be Anti-Troll Without Being Antitrust: A Six-Step Primer

New Zealand Court Hands U.S. a Victory in Kim Dotcom Piracy Case

N.Y. Anti-Terror Law Diminishes Pursuit of Terrorism: Lawyer [Video]

11th Circuit Case Signals Split on Law vs. Regulation vs. … Contract?

Ninth Circuit Clarifies Extraterritorial Reach of California Antitrust Laws

DocX Shutdown Part of $35M ‘Robosigning’ Fraud Settlement

Short Wins - President's Day Edition

February 2013: Libor Litigation Update

Ticking Time Bomb: Private LIBOR Litigation

It's Hard To Lie (Though Not For The Reason You Think); Or You Haven't Made A False Statement If The Statement You Made Isn't...

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

When FBI Agents (Allegedly) Talk In The Hallway; Or Why Even A Lawyer Should Not Talk To The FBI If There's A Real Estate Fraud...

Lesson from Smith: Withdrawal from a Criminal Antitrust Conspiracy Must Be Affirmative

The First Circuit On Police Providing Information To Drug Dealers - You're Only In A Federal Drug Conspiracy If You Know It's A...

N.Y. Anti-Terror Law Diminishes Pursuit of Terrorism: Lawyer [Video]

Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy [Video]

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