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Racketeering
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Zalma on Insurance
A Video About Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter – February 1, 2021
By Barry Zalma
ZIFL – Volume 25 No. 3 See the full video at https://youtu.be/1Lvbxku45ho Quote of the Issue: “Man is only wise while he searches for wisdom; if he thinks he’s found…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Malware Author Pleads Guilty for Role in Transnational Cybercrime Organization Responsible for more than $568 Million in Losses
Cybercrime Organization Victimized Millions in all 50 States and Worldwide in One of the Largest Cyberfraud Enterprises Ever Prosecuted by the Department of Justice An author of malicious computer software…
The Trademark Blog
Trademark – RICO
Second Circuit Kim v. Kimm, No. 16-2944 (2d Cir. 2018) Justia: Plaintiff filed suit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. 1961, et seq., challenging the…
Drug & Device Law
The Defense Strikes Back – with a RICO Suit
What a virile week we’re having. Tomorrow the blog will discuss a viagra product liability lawsuit. Today we reach back to a case from last March involving a battle between…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Planned Parenthood Awarded More Than $2 Million in Lawsuit Over Secret Evidence
New York Times (Nov. 15, 2019): Planned Parenthood Awarded More Than $2 Million in Lawsuit Over Secret Evidence, by Sabrina Tavernise:On Friday, a jury in San Francisco found that the…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
District Court Tosses DNC’s Case Against Russia, Trump Campaign for Hacking its Computers, Distributing Stolen Materials
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolJudge John G. Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.) today dismissed the Democratic National Committee's lawsuit against the Russian Federation, the Trump Campaign, and individuals associated with the…
Religion Clause
Factional Dispute In Ethiopian Orthodox Church Dismissed
In Ambellu v. Re’ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam, (D DC, June 21, 2019), the D.C. federal district court dismissed a suit brought by former members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewhado Church alleging that…
Subject to Inquiry
Key Lessons for Colleges and Universities from Operation Varsity Blues
By Government Investigations Group
On March 12, 2019, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced federal criminal charges in “Operation Varsity Blues,” the largest college admissions case ever prosecuted by…
Chicago Criminal Law Blog
Ex-Chicago cop faces drug charges 15 years after he fled trial
Former Chicago police Sgt. Eddie Hicks took off 15 years ago rather than face trial. But the manhunt that went from Cook County to Texas to Brazil came to an…
FCPA Professor
Checking In On The Firtash Motion To Dismiss
By Mike Koehler
As highlighted in this prior post, in April 2014 the DOJ announced the unsealing of a criminal indictment charging six individuals “with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes…