What constitutes an “official act” for purposes of federal bribery prosecutions has continued to vex courts even after the Supreme...

In a case of first impression in the federal Courts of Appeals, the Second Circuit held that district courts may not consider a...

In the latest case seeking to identify the bounds of federal mail and wire fraud, the Fourth Circuit narrowly construed Ciminelli while...

“Spoofing,” or the practice of submitting buy or sell orders to trading platforms with the intent to withdraw them prior to execution, is...

In Baldwin, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the wire fraud conviction of a Ponzi scheme defendant, holding that the use of a remote video...

Last Friday, in United States v. Paitsel, the DC Circuit addressed the official-duty prong of the federal bribery statute, 18 U.S.C. §...

The Second Circuit is still sorting out the boundaries of wire fraud after the 2023 decision in Ciminelli v. United States, in which the...

Two recent decisions from the Second Circuit and the Fourth Circuit illustrate just how subjective the application of the...

Last week, the Second Circuit set an awfully high standard for banks to face liability under the Anti-Terrorism Act—so high, in fact,...

On Friday, July 25, 2025, the D.C. Circuit issued a decision that will provide prosecutors an argument to extend the period in which a...