White Collar Crime

Did 9 firms making deals with Trump violate bribery, anti-fraud laws? Democratic letters seek answers

Sixteen Democratic lawmakers have sent letters to nine law firms that ask them to disavow deals with President Donald Trump and to answer questions about their legality.

Apr 24, 2025 2:26 PM CDT

White-collar attorneys see acute changes under Trump administration

Amid a flurry of shifts and shakeups in the U.S. Department of Justice, uncertainty shrouds the future of white-collar enforcement. “This administration is sea changes,” says one expert. “So, all the ways someone who may not be involved in white-collar crime thinks an election may matter, they matter in spades right now.”

Apr 23, 2025 12:45 PM CDT

Former Girardi Keese CFO ordered to pay over $8.9M in restitution, serve prison time for embezzlement

The former chief financial officer for the now-defunct law firm Girardi Keese was sentenced Friday to 121 months in federal prison for embezzling money from the firm and its clients.

Apr 15, 2025 11:32 AM CDT

McElroy Deutsch settles suit claiming over $3M embezzlement by former executives

McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has reached a settlement in a lawsuit accusing its former chief financial officer and his wife of stealing more than $3 million from the law firm.

Apr 15, 2025 9:32 AM CDT

Merely misleading statements aren’t illegal under false statements law, Supreme Court says

A federal law that makes it a crime to knowingly make false statements to influence the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. does not punish statements that are merely misleading, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Mar 24, 2025 3:41 PM CDT

More prosecutors resign over order to drop Eric Adams corruption case

Hagan Scotten, the lead prosecutor in Mayor Eric Adams’s federal corruption case, has quit over the Justice Department’s demand that the case be dismissed, calling any lawyer who would move in court to toss the matter a “fool” or “coward,” according to a copy of a letter obtained Friday.

Feb 14, 2025 1:21 PM CST

Trump pauses enforcement of foreign bribery law, cites harm to ‘American economic competitiveness’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that that generally pauses enforcement of a law that bars companies operating in the United States from bribing foreign officials.

Feb 11, 2025 3:24 PM CST

Poker-playing SCOTUSblog founder has net worth of negative $3.3M, criminal court document says

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein

Feb 6, 2025 3:21 PM CST

This BigLaw firm will represent Trump in appeal of hush-money conviction

Sullivan & Cromwell will represent President Donald Trump in his appeal of his conviction and sentence for falsifying business records to hide a hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election.

Jan 30, 2025 12:47 PM CST

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein faces tax evasion charges

Updated: SCOTUSblog publisher and co-founder Tom Goldstein was indicted on federal tax evasion charges Thursday.

Jan 16, 2025 3:58 PM CST

In 5-4 vote, Supreme Court refuses to delay Trump’s hush money sentencing

A closely divided Supreme Court refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case, clearing the way for the president-elect to face judgment in a New York courtroom on Friday and to be formally classified as a felon before he returns to the White House.

Jan 9, 2025 8:45 PM CST

Former BigLaw partner, fen-phen lawyer among those granted commutations by Biden

A former Jenkens & Gilchrist partner and an ex-diet-drug lawyer are among nearly 1,500 people granted commutations by President Joe Biden in December.

Jan 8, 2025 8:50 AM CST

Rejection of Boeing plea deal on DEI grounds causes consternation

The surprise rejection of Boeing Co.’s proposed guilty plea to fraud charges stemming from two fatal 737 Max crashes has inserted a fiery culture issue into the proceedings after a judge opposed the consideration of race in the selection of a compliance monitor.

Dec 6, 2024 12:35 PM CST

As Trump wins White House, special counsel weighs how to end trials

As Donald Trump clinched his resounding presidential victory early Wednesday, the four criminal cases against him seemed to begin their march to dissolution. The election win prompted special counsel Jack Smith to start discussing how to wind down the two federal prosecutions of the president-elect.

Nov 6, 2024 2:50 PM CST

Former Moody’s GC gets prison time for tax-filing failure on $54M income while life ‘all fell apart’

Updated: The former general counsel at the Moody's Corp., a financial services company, was sentenced to eight months in prison last week for failing to file tax returns while earning $54 million.

Oct 29, 2024 9:06 AM CDT