Lawsuits Dropped Setting The Record Straight

A Libyan national accused of orchestrating the deadly 2012 attacks against a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, was convicted Tuesday on terrorism-related charges, but acquitted of murder charges, avoiding the death penalty. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A New York federal jury on Tuesday acquitted a former Swiss banker of what prosecutors alleged was a criminal conspiracy to help U.S. taxpayers hide millions of dollars in undeclared income in offshore bank accounts to dodge taxes. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A trader at Nomura Securities International Inc. who was acquitted earlier this year of defrauding bond buyers has asked a judge to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s parallel suit against him, saying the regulator’s allegations are too vague to move forward. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The jury selected for the in the conspiracy trial of former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney Evan Greebel will not be allowed to hear that “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli was acquitted of allegedly conspiring with Greebel to defraud Retrophin Inc., a Brooklyn federal judge ruled Thursday. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former Massachusetts pharmacist on Thursday asked a federal judge to acquit him of murder and other charges that allege he is responsible for a fatal meningitis outbreak, saying prosecutors failed to prove their case and undermined their own arguments by pinning the wrongdoing on his boss in a separate trial. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a case arguing that if a defendant agrees to separate trials on charges based on the same facts and is acquitted at one, he can get out of the second trial by invoking the Constitution’s ban on double jeopardy. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A New York federal judge on Friday said she was not inclined to dismiss a conspiracy count against a former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney despite the fact Martin Shkreli, the leader of the alleged conspiracy, was acquitted on that charge. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

As Hurricane Irma barrels her way toward Florida, it could not derail a trial in Orlando against a Miami woman accused of bank fraud that ended Thursday afternoon with an acquittal, just before the state shut down to prepare for the coming storm. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

Attorneys for Martin Shkreli on Friday asked a Brooklyn federal judge to acquit him of conspiracy, following his August conviction for defrauding his hedge fund investors and scheming to manipulate the stock price of drug company Retrophin Inc., saying prosecutors misled the jury about a key element of the crime. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorney trying to gut a criminal case alleging he helped Martin Shkreli pull off multiple fraud schemes recently got pushback from federal prosecutors, who said the lawyer cannot dodge a conspiracy count just because Shkreli was acquitted of it. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))