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Allegedly Used Official Position to Obtain $4 Million in Bribes and Kickbacks Concealed as Income From Outside Law Practice   Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Richard Frankel, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Criminal Division of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), […]

  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL A. LUCARELLI, the former Director of Market Intelligence at Lippert/Heilshorn& Associates, Inc. (“LHA”), an investor relations firm, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 30 months in prison for insider trading.  LUCARELLI repeatedly used material nonpublic information

  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT M. FAIELLA, a/k/a “BTCKing,” an underground Bitcoin exchanger, was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in knowingly transmitting nearly $1 million in Bitcoins intended to facilitate drug trafficking on “Silk Road,” a black-market

The massive sales of Charlie Hebdo following the Paris terror attacks has also raised a debate about who would permit – or should permit – the publication of such cartoons with issues about free speech and privacy laws raging in the wake of the attacks and the publication of the latest edition once again showing