Money Laundering, Reversal

Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act

Goodwin on 11/20/2020

Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act; D.C. Circuit Upholds FINRA’s Permanent Ban of Broker Accused of Misconduct After Finding SCOTUS...more

US v. Hoskins: FCPA Guilty Verdict Overturned as Court Gives Definition to the Term "Agent"

White & Case LLP on 3/4/2020

In November 2019, we reported that a jury found Lawrence Hoskins, a senior executive at a French company, guilty of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") violations. Two years earlier, the District Court granted dismissal of...more

Sneaking Isn’t Laundering: Second Circuit Reverses Money Laundering Conviction for Insufficient Evidence of Intent to Disguise

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 4/23/2018

In United States v. Rodriguez, a panel of the Second Circuit (Judges Katzmann, Walker, and Bolden (D. Conn., sitting by designation)) reversed the conviction of a defendant for money laundering....more

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Securities Fraud Omissions Case

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 3/30/2017

The U.S. Supreme Court will resolve a critical question governing the scope of liability in securities fraud cases which has split the circuit courts to date. The case, Leidos Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System, No....more

Obtaining Jurisdiction in New York Courts through Repeated Use of Correspondent Bank Accounts

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 1/25/2017

In the past, a foreign bank’s use of correspondent bank accounts in the United States to facilitate wire transfers has not necessarily given New York courts a sufficient basis for jurisdiction over the bank. But a recent 4-3...more

Money Laundering › Reversal

Ninth Circuit Holds Loss Causation May Be Predicated on Information Potentially Available Under Freedom of Information Act

US v. Hoskins: FCPA Guilty Verdict Overturned as Court Gives Definition to the Term "Agent"

Sneaking Isn’t Laundering: Second Circuit Reverses Money Laundering Conviction for Insufficient Evidence of Intent to Disguise

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Securities Fraud Omissions Case

Obtaining Jurisdiction in New York Courts through Repeated Use of Correspondent Bank Accounts

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