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...It was signed into law in 1970 during the presidency of Richard Nixon and was used by Rudy Giuliani when he was US Attorney for the Southern District of New York to pursue the heads of New York’s five mafia...
...UBS declined to comment, while the Mozambican attorney-general, Privinvest and lawyers for Mozambique did not respond to requests for comment by time of publication....
...Roger Cox, the attorney for Milieudefensie who led the Shell case, said he was confident about a case against ING....
...In a statement, Roberta Steele, regional attorney at the EEOC’s San Francisco district office, called the allegations “disturbing”....
...(Item declined to name the investors he is representing, citing “attorney-client privilege”.)...
...Bronwyn Owen, the group’s head of investors relations, is relocating from New York to run the office, which will be used to forge ties with local investors....
...Owen Bennett, an analyst at Jefferies, said the announcement was positive....
...The New Jersey attorney-general had filed a case against Credit Suisse in 2013 seeking up to $3bn of damages over the bank’s sale of residential mortgage-backed securities dating back to before 2008....
...Juul is still contesting litigation from another nine attorneys-general....
...The bank is also under investigation by Switzerland’s attorney-general over the investor presentation, following a complaint filed by Swiss politician Carlo Sommaruga this month....
...The FT’s European banking correspondent Owen Walker lays out the stakes on Behind the Money....
...It has drawn up plans to split its investment bank into three, the FT’s Owen Walker revealed....
...The judges sympathised with Owens but said they could do nothing until the law was changed....
...Despite the bank admitting to what one US Attorney called a “global criminal conspiracy to defraud investors”, a senior bank insider said that it was “hard to portray it as an entirely bad day at the office...
...“This is an important step towards obtaining full redress for the people of Mozambique,” said Keith Oliver, head of international at law firm Peters & Peters, on behalf of the attorney-general of Mozambique...
...“We are not anywhere near where we need to be when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency industry,” says Allison Owen, a research analyst at RUSI’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies....
...The former attorney-general has come under scrutiny over his role advising a tax haven....
...He has spoken in just one parliamentary debate since being sacked as attorney-general in 2020....
...Now, one of its own attorneys has blown the whistle on the secretive legal process, Reuters reports....
...Sir Geoffrey Cox, the Conservative former attorney-general, was revealed to have earned nearly £1m from legal work last year, including advising the British Virgin Islands....
...Senator Ron Wyden, chair of the committee, also wrote to US attorney-general Merrick Garland on Tuesday, requesting the Department of Justice provide additional information related to the case, for which...
...The prime minister’s comments followed footage that appeared to show Sir Geoffrey Cox, a Tory MP and former attorney-general, using his House of Commons office for legal work advising the British Virgin...
...shambolic retreat over “sleaze” in the House of Commons, as ministers tabled a motion scrapping a proposed Tory-run committee to rewrite the regime on MPs’ behaviour and accepting that former cabinet minister Owen...
...Westminster has been gripped by a sleaze scandal since Conservative MPs voted, at the behest of Johnson, to overhaul the system of parliamentary standards and block the suspension of former minister Owen...
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