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The Worst of The Trump Pardons

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Trump’s recent pardons have followed form – a cot-throwing, screw you attitude towards his election loss, still unaccepted, and his congenital inability to accept reversal. The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg reviewed his most disgusting pardons, including the Blackwater mercenaries who participated in the  2007 massacre in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. Among the victims was a

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Perkins Coie Boosts White Collar & Financial Litigation Power

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17 Lawyers Join From Richards Kibbe & Orbe The strategic addition of Chambers-ranked talent in New York and Washington, D.C. is the largest such acquisition in recent years NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, D.C., (December 16, 2020) – Perkins Coie announced today the addition of 17 white collar and financial services litigation attorneys from the prominent firm

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Claims of ‘Fearsome’ Quinn Emanuel ‘Boys Club’ Rejected

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An alleged ‘boys’ club’ culture at top firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been denied by the firm following the firing of a former associate who raised issues around the culture and alleged discrimination and racial minorities, among other matters. The top partners at the firm denied the claims made by the former female

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‘Oyster Pearl’ Cryptocurrency Found Bruno Block Charged With Multimillion Dollar Tax Evasion

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Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington, D.C., Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation

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US Attorney Fired By Donald Trump Hired To Lead Fried Frank White Collar Practice

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The former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S Berman, who was fired by President Trump, has been hired by Fried Frank to lead the firm’s white collar and litigation practice. The firm’s press release making the announcement is below – Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced today that

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Trump Lawyer’s Alleged Harassment From Big Law Kirklands

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A Philadelphia lawyer running her own firm and representing Donald Trump’s campaign has complained of harassment from Kirkland & Ellis, dropping a lawsuit challenging the election results. Linda Kerns did not give harassment as a reason for dropping out of the lawsuit, but a court filing indicated that a short voice mail from a lawyer

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The Attorney Holding Up A Smooth Trump Transition

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There would not be many people who have heard of Emily Murphy before the presidential election that saw Joe Biden elected as President-Elect, nor the government agency she manages. But things are changing on that front as she hinders the transfer of power to the Biden Administration. But Emily Webster Murphy, Administrator of the General Services

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Goldman Sachs in ‘Sweeping International Corruption Scheme’ – Agree to Pay $2.9 Billion Over Malaysian & Abu Dhabi Bribery

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WASHINGTON – The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs or the Company), a global financial institution headquartered in New York, New York, and Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (GS Malaysia), its Malaysian subsidiary, have admitted to conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with a scheme to pay over $1 billion

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