EX-OFAC Atty Joins Squire Patton's White Collar Group In DC
By Alison Knezevich
Squire Patton Boggs LLP's government investigations and white collar
practice has brought on an attorney who spent more than a decade with the
U.S. Treasury Department office that enforces economic sanctions, the firm
said Tuesday.
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LBRY Says It Will Close Down After SEC's Win
By Jessica Corso
Would-be YouTube alternative LBRY Inc. said Tuesday that it was closing up
shop after a judge permanently barred the platform from the crypto industry
and ordered it to pay a civil penalty of around $100,000 for failing to
register its digital token with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Investors Fight Robinhood's Bid To End Suit Over $2.1B IPO
By Emilie Ruscoe
Investors in trading and investing app Robinhood have doubled down on
claims that the company misrepresented key financial metrics affecting its
bottom line in the lead-up to its $2.1 billion initial public offering in
July 2021, asking a San Francisco federal judge to deny the company's bid
to see the suit dismissed.
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Musk Says Twitter Investors Can't Prove Manipulation Scheme
By Jeff Montgomery
Elon Musk has urged a California federal judge to jettison a Twitter
stockholder's securities action accusing him of fraud and misstatements in
the erratic buildup to his $44 billion purchase of the social media
juggernaut last year, claiming the case is riddled "top-to-bottom" with
defects.
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Ex-Amazon Coder Charged With $9M Crypto Exchange Hack
By Rachel Scharf
A former Amazon security engineer was arrested Tuesday on charges that he
stole $9 million from a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, in what the
Manhattan U.S. attorney's office called the first-ever prosecution of a
hack involving so-called "smart contracts."
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NY Enforcers Warn Of Delay In Ski Operator Antitrust Case
By Matthew Perlman
The Office of the New York State Attorney General has blasted a bid from a
ski operator accused of creating a monopoly over resorts in the Syracuse,
New York, area to push back a discovery deadline, saying that any delay in
the case will come at the expense of consumers.
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No Immunity For Trump In Carroll's Defamation Suit, DOJ Says
By Lauren Berg
The U.S. Department of Justice backpedaled on its position that former
President Donald Trump has immunity in E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit,
telling a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday it lacks evidence to conclude
Trump was acting within the scope of his duties when he denied sexually
assaulting her.
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Patent Board Agrees To Dig Into More Fintiv Patents
By Andrew Karpan
Apple has persuaded judges on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to review
two more patents issued to Fintiv that are involved in the Austin,
Texas-based mobile payment startup's case against PayPal.
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Twitter Is Collecting State Money Transmitter Licenses
By Aislinn Keely
Twitter is gathering money transmitter licenses in what appears to be
groundwork for a payments integration, receiving approvals in four states
since the end of June after initially registering its plans with federal
regulators last year.
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10th Circ. Backs Fed Ban Of 2 Bankers In Trade Secrets Case
By Jon Hill
A Tenth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that the Federal Reserve had
jurisdiction to take enforcement action against two executives of a member
bank in Wyoming for allegedly misappropriating proprietary information from
a previous employer, a nonmember bank overseen by another federal agency.
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