2547 ABA Journal White Collar Crime articles.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday filed a sentencing memo recommending a “substantial prison term” for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, even as the special prosecutor’s office filed…
Dec 7, 2018 5:36 PM CST
Women from four continents learned the hard way that they were married to white-collar criminals. Now their private online support group, the White-Collar Wives Project, is shining a light on damage that white-collar crime can cause the entire family.
Dec 1, 2018 2:25 AM CST
The Foreign Agents Registration Act requires anyone lobbying or doing public relations for a foreign government, company or other entity to register with the Department of Justice and file detailed reports about their work every six months. Violations carry penalties of up to $10,000 and five years in prison.
Dec 1, 2018 2:05 AM CST
Updated: Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane reported to jail Thursday to begin serving a sentence of up to 23 months for perjury and obstruction of the law.
Judge Wendy…
Nov 28, 2018 8:15 AM CST
The special counsel’s office says President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, lied to the FBI and the special counsel’s office after he pleaded guilty in September to reduced…
Nov 27, 2018 9:28 AM CST
A 6-plus carat diamond engagement ring that led to an Arizona lawyer’s prison sentence is going up for auction.
The ring, once intended for the fiancee of Scottsdale lawyer Scott…
Nov 20, 2018 2:57 PM CST
A former partner at Balch & Bingham has been sentenced to five years in prison for a scheme to bribe an Alabama state legislator to oppose expansion of a site…
Oct 26, 2018 6:30 AM CDT
A suspended Atlanta lawyer was convicted Friday for embezzling $26 million from the law firm where he once served as managing partner.
Nathan Hardwick IV was convicted on 21 counts…
Oct 15, 2018 11:20 AM CDT
A former partner at Hunton & Williams and Willkie Farr & Gallagher has been sentenced to five years in prison for a phony invoice scheme that bilked her firms out…
Oct 11, 2018 3:00 PM CDT
Proskauer Rose has agreed to pay $63 million to resolve the claims of investors who lost money as a result of a Ponzi scheme by R. Allen Stanford, whose companies…
Sep 10, 2018 11:36 AM CDT
Former Dewey & LeBoeuf chairman Steven Davis has reached an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to pay a $130,000 civil penalty, the New York Law Journal…
Sep 5, 2018 11:11 AM CDT
ABA Journal: In 2002, you decided to move from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. Did you have to change your practice to adapt to a smaller legal community?
Mitra Shahri: No, perverts are perverts everywhere you go.
Sep 1, 2018 2:45 AM CDT
A GoFundMe page for Michael Cohen’s legal fees had raised more than $135,000 by Thursday morning even though Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, gave an incorrect domain name in early…
Aug 23, 2018 8:10 AM CDT
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