Insider Trading
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Insider Trading
Ex-Rep. Collins Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison For Insider Trading, Lying To FBI
Collins, a Republican who represented New York's 27th district, was arrested in August 2018 on charges of insider trading related to his membership on the board of Australian biotech Innate Immunotherapeutics. -
Insider Trading
Goldman Insider-Trader To Give Up $24K From Sunglasses Case, $236K More
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Luxury, Lies, And A $10 Million Embezzlement
In a scandal that rocked the business community, a former high-profile executive was sentenced to prison, plus five years of supervised release and restitution. -
Insider Trading
Prosecutors Have Been Using The Wrong Insider Trading Law All This Time
If Preet Bharara had known about Title 18, he’d probably be president by now or something.
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Insider Trading
Companies Do More Buybacks When Their CEOs Are Cashing Out Options But Don’t You Dare Call It Insider Trading
Aligning incentives never felt so good. -
Insider Trading
Prosecutors Seek To Call @Carl_C_Icahn To The Stand
Insider tweeting and insider trading. -
Insider Trading
Behold, The Shakespearean Plot Twist At The Heart Of The Cooperman Insider Trading Case
Coming soon to an old-timey theater near you! -
Insider Trading
Son Half Of Father/Son Insider Trading Duo Found Guilty
Unfortunately for Stewart the Younger, a jury has gone with prosecutors’ version of the events. -
Insider Trading, Wall Street, White-Collar Crime
If You Want Some Insider Intel From A Client, Get Him Liquored Up
Criminal charges for a former Biglaw partner and his investment adviser. - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Insider Trading
What Happens If The Supreme Court Defines Insider Trading And Nino Scalia Isn’t There To Vote On It?
Where does the Notorious RBG stand on what constitutes a 'golf tip'? -
Crime, Insider Trading
Georgia Broker Sorry About All Those Times He Traded On Information Purchased From Ukrainian Hackers
Won’t happen again, scout’s honor. -
Insider Trading
In Retrospect, L.I. Father Probably Would *Not* Have Recounted Story About Son Chiding Him For Failing To Trade On Inside Tip, In Presence Of Guy Wearing A Wire
Maybe don't brag about your son in this instance... -
Insider Trading
Ex-Barclays Director 'Knew It Was Wrong' To Pass Inside Info In Exchange For Free Plumbing Work, Did It Anyway
Hey, those toilet snakings don’t come cheap!
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Insider Trading, Securities and Exchange Commission
Congress Doesn’t Understand Why SEC Is Being Such A Killjoy About This Whole Insider Trading Thing
C’mon guys, really. You don’t have to do this. -
Insider Trading
Barclays Director Accused Of Doling Out Insider Tips So He Could Get His Toilet Snaked Gratis
It's not like he couldn't have afforded the home renovations. -
Insider Trading
Trading On Inside Information While Posing As Your Own Mother Is Not Legal: Preet Bharara
Maybe try a little harder next time… like an aunt, perhaps? -
Insider Trading
Preet Bharara Ready To Prove Insider Trading Still Exists
Preet Bharara’s just about ready to accept the soul-crushing, legacy-lightening definition of insider-trading imposed on him by certain unlettered judges. -
Insider Trading
One Day You’re Bonding With A New Friend At A Bachelor Party, The Next You’re Standing Trial On Insider Trading Charges
Let this be a lesson to you all. -
Antonin Scalia, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Clarence Thomas, Gay Marriage, Insider Trading, Law Firm Mergers, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Small Law Firms, Supreme Court, Video games
Morning Docket: 11.13.14
* Look, ma, no Justice Kennedy! Over the dissent of Justices Scalia and Thomas, the Supreme Court quickly lifted its earlier stay on allowing same-sex marriages to go forward in Kansas. [USA Today]
* Sources say were it not for Bingham McCutchen’s malpractice settlement with the former owner of the Dodgers, Morgan Lewis would’ve walked away from the potential merger deal. #blessed [Am Law Daily]
* Mathew Martoma, the would-be lawyer who was expelled from Harvard Law for faking his transcripts, was denied his bid for bail pending appeal on an insider trading conviction. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start: The ex-general counsel to Occulus VR started his own firm and angel investment company to address the needs of video game companies. [Gamasutra]
* New York is holding off on adopting the Uniform Bar Exam, at least for a little while longer, mostly because “the[re] is just not enough turnaround time to do it for July ’15.” Hooray? [New York Law Journal]
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Cars, Contracts, Guns / Firearms, Insider Trading, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Police
Morning Docket: 10.24.14
* Thanks to this Government Accountability Office ruling, the company that cleared NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis may lose a $210M contract. [Legal Times]
* After being acquitted on insider trading charges, Rengan Rajaratnam agreed to settle the civil suit filed against him for a cool $840K. At least he’s not in jail like his brother. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Those interested in going to law school may want to know that Philadelphia is purportedly home to some of the cheapest law schools in the country — not Penn Law, though, sorry ’bout that. [Main Street]
* Professors at WUSTL Law held a “teach-in” to discuss the Michael Brown police shooting case. According to them, the likelihood Darren Wilson will be federally charged is “slim to none.” [Student Life]
* Attack of the aggrieved ex: a man drove a burning pickup truck loaded with explosives into a law firm, destroying much of the building. He had apparently dated one of the firm’s former clients. [Virginian-Pilot]