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Reversals of Fraud Charges Highlight Difficulties in Bringing Market Manipulation Cases

WilmerHale on 8/5/2025

Establishing that criminal defendants engaged in market manipulation is extremely difficult, often due to the difficulty in establishing that the defendant created prices that did not reflect legitimate sources of supply or...more

Heart to Heart: SEC and USAO File Parallel Feb. 14 Enforcement Actions

Holland & Knight LLP on 2/23/2023

Enforcement was in the air this Valentine's Day for the New York and Forth Worth Regional offices of the SEC, who on Feb. 14, 2023, announced charges against Christopher S. Kirchner – the former CEO of supply chain logistics...more

Federal Fraud Statutes - Not A Short Cut to Proving Insider Trading

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 1/27/2021

The question of what constitutes insider trading has been litigated for decades. Many thought that a series of Supreme Court cases such as Dirks v. SEC, 462 U.S. 646 (1983) and its progeny had largely resolved the question...more

2019 Bad Guys in Energy

Gray Reed on 1/16/2020

To our bad guys, 2019 was a year flush with hope and opportunity; it ended with recidivism, more misery from Venezuela, a charlatan, an Okie who pulled a multi-million dollar fast-one on Chesapeake and, as in years past, a...more

U.S. v. Blaszczak: The 2nd Circuit Makes it Easier to Prosecute Insider Trading

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/8/2020

Key Points: The 2nd Circuit has issued a landmark decision for insider trading enforcement that will make it significantly easier for the government to prosecute insider trading in criminal cases. The decision may also...more

Warning Shot: Charges Against OneCoin Include Securities Fraud

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 4/26/2019

In early March, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney unsealed indictments against the leaders of the Bulgarian-based “purported” cryptocurrency “OneCoin” on wire fraud, money laundering and federal securities fraud charges relating to...more

Criminal And Civil Charges Filed In Connection With Initial Coin Offering By Centra Tech

A&O Shearman on 4/10/2018

On April 2, 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced criminal and civil charges against two startup co-founders for allegedly defrauding and conspiring to defraud...more

The World in US Courts - Orrick's Quarterly Review of Decisions Applying US Law to Global Business and Cross-Border Activities:...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 9/5/2015

We are pleased to announce the Summer 2015 issue of The World in US Courts: Orrick's Quarterly Review of Decisions Applying US Law To Global Business and Cross-Border Activities. This issue discusses 13 new decisions that...more

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