Criminal Prosecution, Construction Industry, White Collar Crimes

Sentence Handed Down in Minnesota’s First Felony Conviction for Criminal Wage Theft

Husch Blackwell LLP on 6/16/2025

Last week, a Hennepin County judge sentenced an employer following a first-of-its-kind criminal conviction for wage theft in Minnesota. Since its enactment in 2019, Minnesota’s Wage Theft Prevention Act has imposed stringent...more

Supreme Court Holds That Economic Loss Is Not Required for Wire Fraud

Stevens & Lee on 6/10/2025

On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States resolved a deep circuit split by holding that “fraudulent inducement” is a valid theory of wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. § 1343. In other words, lying to induce a victim...more

Government Contracts White-Collar Alert: Supreme Court Clarifies Wire Fraud Statute

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/4/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court recently delivered a significant ruling in Stamatios Kousisis, et al. v. United States, affirming that a defendant can be convicted of federal fraud for inducing a transaction through materially false...more

Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of Federal Fraud Statutes: Deception Alone Can Support Wire Fraud Convictions

Mayer Brown on 5/28/2025

Overview - On May 22, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Kousisis v. United States, providing clarity on the scope of the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343. In a opinion authored by...more

Suppliers Beware: US Government Continues Prosecution of DBE Fraud Cases Involving Supplies Passed Through DBEs

Troutman Pepper Locke on 4/26/2023

On April 21, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions of a painting subcontractor and its owner (defendants) under the federal wire fraud statute for conspiring to defraud the Department of Transportation...more

Cognizant Technology Pays $25 Million for FCPA Violations and Earns Declination — Two Executives are Indicted for Criminal FCPA...

The Volkov Law Group on 2/18/2019

In the first corporate FCPA action of 2019, Cognizant Technology Solutions Company settled its long-running FCPA case, agreeing to pay the SEC $25 million....more