- Ron Rockwell Hansen, a former Defense Intelligence Agency case officer, was arrested in Seattle for spying on behalf of China — here’s the arrest warrant and complaint
- So many ways to commit fraud — here’s gift card fraud complete with
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OLCC ‘Pauses’ Review of New Recreational Marijuana License Applications
Citing an unmanageable backlog of recreational marijuana license applications and difficulty meeting its responsibilities to existing licensees, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) announced today that it will “pause” review of new recreational license applications effective June 15, 2018. The…
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- A new dawn for data privacy as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect yesterday — of course no one’s really ready for it, including the regulators
- This former Tennessee judge would make other criminals blush
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Tidal Shift or Bump in the Road? The Story of Industrial Hemp
Lost in the rubble left by last week’s noisy collapse of H.R. 2 (the Agriculture and Nutrition Act, commonly known as the Farm Bill) are some significant developments in the United States’ progress towards legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp.…
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- Pretend you’re an investment adviser for the second time and you’ll really, really go to jail
- Don’t claim Chinese furniture is Italian and post it on Craigslist — the Feds will find you, even in Alaska
- This money laundering defendant
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Genug with the Parallel Proceedings . . .
Last week, I teased the continuation of a series of posts about the Fifth Amendment. That’s still coming, but I had to return to another common theme first. My preview came at the end of a post about both the…
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- Local, artisanal, illegal
- Someone’s looking for a new job — the DAG continued his speaking tour this week, with remarks at an FCPA conference and keynote speech at the 7th Annual White Collar Crime Institute
- Follow Paul Manafort’s example and
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Parallel Proceedings Revisited
News of the last few weeks has prompted me to return to two issues I’ve discussed here before: parallel proceedings and the Fifth Amendment. This time around, the Fifth Amendment issue is not double jeopardy, but instead the constitutional…
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ERISA: How to Argue that “Conflict Discovery” Should Not Supplement the Administrative Record
By Mike Reilly
You know that in ERISA claims where the court is applying the abuse of discretion standard, the court may allow “conflict discovery.” This might include discovery of claims manuals, for example.
But even if the court allows conflict discovery,…