Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted) )

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 Brooklyn federal jury on Friday convicted an Italian man prosecutors said created a global network of hijacked computers with obtaining unauthorized information, acquitting him of the more serious charges of cyber intrusion, wire fraud and conspiracy. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The acquittal Wednesday of five brokers accused of plotting with a former bank trader convicted of manipulating Libor is a setback for the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, but the watchdog is unlikely to abandon its aggressive prosecution strategy for rate-rigging schemes. Law360: acquitted