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...Whether you love or hate crypto, the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried in New York this week was pure drama....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...Kamensky’s pre-dawn arrest at his suburban New York home by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in September sent shockwaves through the distressed debt and corporate law communities....
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
...Spac targets Europe’s unicorns Tailwind, the New York-listed special purpose acquisition company, is searching for European tech unicorns to list in the US as part of plans to bypass EU and UK markets and...
...The measures have done little to reassure defence lawyers, who have pointed to the long record of problems in overstretched and underfunded federal prisons like New York’s notorious Metropolitan Correctional...
...In response, jails across the US have gone into lockdown, with the federal Bureau of Prisons banning visits from family and lawyers except in limited circumstances. “We’re in a really bad position....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...New York gets back to business After months in lockdown, New York — the centre of the US coronavirus pandemic — began a phased reopening on Monday....
...Federal Trade Commission chairman Joseph Simons has appointed Ian Conner and Daniel Francis to the Bureau of Competition’s senior leadership team....
...“The idea that someone like this would be bound by a non-compete at all is really problematic,” said Terri Gerstein, a Harvard Law School fellow and former labour bureau chief in the New York state attorney-general...
...Mr Cohen had long been at the side of Mr Trump and during the presidential campaign he was one of the most aggressive defenders of the former New York property mogul on US cable television....
...You/SCIENCE from Masnadi et al, SCIENCE 361: 851, 2018 (10.1126/science.aar6859). Modified with permission from AAAS.)...
...The man, who joined the tech company in 2015, was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on July 7 as he attempted to board a flight to China....
...The charges in the indictment against Mr Manafort carry a potential sentence of up to 20 years in prison....
...Al Foreman, chief investment officer at New York-based Tuatara Capital, a cannabis-focused fund, explained that the substance affords “the opportunity to generate outsize returns in a regulatory environment...
...This is on whether Macron et al will push ahead with a reform to deduct income tax at source. Yup, really....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...The adjustment bureau The dirty little secret among New York’s elite M&A legal scene is that the contracts they draft for public company deals are not that complicated....
...Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The CFPB was created to defend Americans against bad behaviour by banks. Banks complain the new regulator has strangled them with red tape....
...The ruling was cheered by prosecutors who had feared the high court would adopt the narrower definition used by a 2014 New York federal appeals court decision that has made it much harder to bring insider...
...Platinum is already under investigation amid allegations that bribes were paid to Norman Seabrook, the head of New York City’s prison officers’ union, to secure a $20m investment from the union....
...Here’s Read in New York Magazine (emphasis ours): I spent part of yesterday afternoon watching a former co-worker explain a joke I’d once made in Campfire, the software we used for work chats....
...Debbie Feinstein, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s competition bureau, told the Financial Times: “There’s no question that we’re going to be aggressive against conduct or mergers that are going...
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