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Insider Trading Guilty Pleas

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

Another Guilty Plea in Insider Trading Case Under CFTC’s Anti-Manipulation Rule

A natural gas trader pleaded guilty in federal district court last week to conspiring to commit commodities fraud and wire fraud in an insider trading scheme over natural gas futures. His co-conspirator had pleaded guilty...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 1.8.2020 | Top Story: Speaker Company Sonos Sues Google for Patent Infringement

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Home speaker maker Sonos has sued Google, accusing the company of “infringing on five of its patents, including technology that lets wireless speakers connect and synchronize with one another.” Sonos had originally partnered...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

DOJ Drops Insider Trading Charges After Guilty Plea Found Insufficient

Last week, the Southern District of New York dropped its prosecution of Richard Lee, a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital who, in 2013, entered a guilty plea to trading on material nonpublic information that he gained...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - September 2019

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between May and August 2019....more

ArentFox Schiff

Investigations Newsletter: Pharmaceutical Company Agrees to Pay $15.4 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Violations

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NY Ambulette Owners Plead Guilty to $8.6 Million Health Care Kickback Scheme - On September 5, the Department of Justice announced that two New York ambulette owners pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to offer and...more

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Investigations Newsletter: Inpatient Rehabilitation Company Agrees to Pay $48 Million to Resolve FCA

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DOJ News - Inpatient Rehabilitation Company Agrees to Pay $48 Million to Resolve FCA Allegations - DOJ announced that Encompass Health Corporation (f/k/a HealthSouth Corporation), the nation’s largest operator of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Southern District of New York Vacates Insider Trading Guilty Plea Based on Insufficient Personal Benefit Evidence Under United...

On June 21, 2019, in United States v. Lee, Judge Paul G. Gardephe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an order vacating the guilty plea of a former investment portfolio analyst, Richard...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.24.2019 | Top Story: All Top US Banks Pass Fed’s Recent Stress Tests With Ease

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Good news for the country’s biggest banks, as the Fed confirmed on Friday that all “could weather an extreme market shock—including double-digit unemployment and a 50% U.S. stocks decline—and still have enough capital to...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

When Gym Gossip Can Change Your Lifetime

As one of the more closely watched insider trading prosecutions of the past few years heads towards trial, observers can look to the investigation surrounding the 2015 acquisition of Life Time Fitness Inc. as a reminder of...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Insider Guessing Can Still Land You in Jail

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The most basic story of insider trading goes something like this: a corporate insider learns secret company information in the course of doing her job. She then goes out and trades on it, making (or saving) a bunch of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

SEC and U.S. Attorney’s Office Continue Their Pursuit of Criminal Actions Against Purveyors of “Political Intelligence”

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On May 24, 2017, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launched their latest criminal and civil salvos against prohibited insider trading by...more

A&O Shearman

Guilty Pleas to Insider Dealing Charges Brought by the UK Financial Conduct Authority

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The Financial Conduct Authority announced that Manjeet Mohal and Reshim Birk had pleaded guilty to three counts of insider dealing at their trial at the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Mohal pleaded guilty to two counts of...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Partially Settles “Portfolio Manager” Insider Trading Case

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The SEC partially settled what is perhaps one of its more unusual insider trading cases. It involved defendants who posed as portfolio managers who then induced investment bankers to entrust them which inside information that...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Corporate Investigations & White Collar Defense - October 2015

"Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" Part III - Why it matters: It is time for another installment in our continuing "Wherefore Art Thou Due Process?" coverage into the ongoing constitutional challenges to the SEC's...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Hedge Funds Plead Guilty to Insider Trading with Historic Penalty and Five-Year Probation

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A major plea agreement in the Southern District of New York, which imposed the largest insider trading penalty in history, indicates federal prosecutors aim to follow through on long-standing promises of cracking down on...more

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