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An immigration attorney will serve 21 months in prison for scheming to help a material witness in a criminal investigation into “birthing houses” for pregnant women looking to earn citizenship for their progeny escape the U.S., a California federal judge ruled Monday. Law360: acquitted

A federal jury Monday found a Philadelphia hospice nurse guilty of health care fraud for participating in a $ 14.3 million scheme to bill Medicare for bogus care, but acquitted her on the majority of the charges including one for conspiracy. Law360: acquitted

U.K. prosecutors on Monday reportedly asked to delay their third trial over alleged Libor manipulation, saying Barclays PLC provided more information they might need to review. Law360: acquitted

When a tiny thrift bank in New York’s Chinatown vowed to fight fraud charges brought by Manhattan’s powerful district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., it was Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP that helped steer it to vindication following a four-month trial, an achievement that established the firm as having one of Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the Year. Law360: ...

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday denied a former vacation rental firm executive’s motion for a new trial or acquittal after he was convicted for his role in a $ 300 million Ponzi scheme, despite his claims that prosecutors had failed to prove he intentionally defrauded investors. Law360: acquitted

A Chicago doctor due to spend three months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud federal health programs at the city’s now-defunct Sacred Heart Hospital asked an Illinois federal court Wednesday to let him stay free until his Seventh Circuit appeal is decided. Law360: acquitted

Steptoe & Johnson LLP’s lawyers knew all along that former BP Gulf of Mexico exploration chief David Rainey was innocent. Targeted over the truth of public statements after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Rainey still had to convince a jury — and the way his lawyers at Steptoe went about it landed them among Law360’s White Collar Practice Groups of the ...

The New York County District Attorney’s Office on Wednesday shot back at efforts by former top executives at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP to avoid a second trial on charges of conning lenders and investors out of over $ 100 million when the law firm collapsed, saying to let the leaders off would disregard the law. Law360: acquitted

A London jury on Wednesday acquitted five former brokers of plotting with convicted former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes to manipulate Libor, the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office said. Law360: 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