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...In the Swamp Notes newsletter, Peter Spiegel calls the US campaign finance system “one of the most corrupting features of a modern democracy anywhere in the world”....
...Assistant US attorney Allison Nichols referred to messages from Chastain that showed he had a “fear of missing out”....
...By May 2023, the German prosecutor’s office told Kostyuchenko’s lawyer it was closing the case....
...And in November 2023 he told Italian prosecutors he would sell off his $80mn private island in Dubai, in the hope of his sentence being reduced....
...The six individuals accused by the DOJ of running the scheme include former IHAG bank deputy chief executive Peter Rüegg....
...They were also intended to ease the burden on assistant US attorneys outnumbered by their corporate adversaries’ legal armies....
...Peter Taylor then separated from the group and flew to China while Mr Ghosn, Mr Zayek and Michael Taylor boarded a bullet train back to Kansai airport, prosecutors said....
...Personal assistants with headsets would jump out of vehicles ahead of him, alerting others that “the president is arriving”. A team on the ground would spend weeks planning his schedule....
...Peter Crozier, assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, said the charges followed “one of the most complex criminal investigations ever to be conducted”....
...He was then a special assistant US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia before his move to Mr Mueller’s team....
...Hannah Laming, a partner at law firm Peters & Peters with a focus on business crime, said: “There’s been a lot of focus on insider dealings and the headline fines that you get from banks....
...Mr Fico’s replacement with Peter Pellegrini, a lesser party loyalist, looks like a charade to avoid the embarrassment of a snap election....
...Alice Fisher, a former assistant attorney-general for the DoJ’s criminal division, noted that the vast majority of DoJ prosecutors are career professionals who stay in place when the political leadership...
...A second supervisor instructed his assistant to throw away a computer hard drive containing potentially incriminating files, according to court documents....
...Swati Dhingra, assistant professor, LSE Similar to current trend of wage stagnation....
...When Mr Burlingame attended an anniversary party this winter for Peter Binning — a well-regarded UK solicitor and former prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service and Serious Fraud Office — he realised...
...Prosecutors allege that Amin Shokohi, who worked for ITSec, helped build the botnet that engaged in the attack on US banks....
...But the police’s record is also patchy, and the prosecutors’ challenge is the same: securing convictions....
...He went on to explain that the two particular partners – David Esseks, a former assistant US attorney, and Peter Watson, a senior civil litigator – were not experienced UK criminal lawyers and relied on...
...She is accused of conspiring with her personal assistant Cheryl Carter to remove seven boxes of notebooks from the News International archive....
...“FT readers should know there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing, too,” said Mma Mkutsi, assistant detective....
...the SFO with US prosecutors....
...One A&O partner, David Esseks, a former assistant US attorney, allegedly “misled” Akin Gump as to the meeting’s purpose, while Peter Watson, one of A&O’s most senior litigators, pressed Mr Kooheji by suggesting...
...Mr Kamprad and his former assistant, Ikea’s new chief executive Peter Agnefjäll, seem more aware of the dangers than most....
...Mark Vandevelde is the FT’s 2013 Peter Martin fellow...
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