In October 2009 I was arrested and charged with insider trading. I chose to fight the charges against me because I was innocent. The prosecutors alleged that 0.01% of my trades between 2005 and 2009 were illegal. I understood that in the US there is a 97% conviction rate (similar to China and Russia) and […]
/PRNewswire/ Dechert LLP has named partners Catherine Botticelli and Jonathan Streeter as co-chairs of the firm s global litigation practice group. They.
The preface of Raj Rajaratnam s book: Why I fought the good fight – The Island island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Firm gets more time to explain bills for bailout legislation
By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press
CLEVELAND (AP) A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday gave law firm employees another three months to explain in detail the millions of dollars they billed for lobbying and other work on behalf of an electric utility in support of a now-tainted Ohio energy bill.
Judge Alan Koschik told three partners and a senior policy adviser at the national firm Akin Gump they have until Oct. 12 to submit documentation.
The four submitted $3.3 million in bills to the court for their work from March 2018 until February 2020 in support of FirstEnergy Solutions’ bankruptcy and lobbying for a $1 billion bailout for two nuclear plants operated at the time by the wholly-owned FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary.