Bloomberg Law
Jan. 4, 2019, 12:39 PM UTC

Wake Up Call: Feds Accuse Former Trump Lawyer of Trying to Extort Burger Chain

  • In Chicago, Jenner & Block is reportedly representing a city alderman, Ed Burke, whom federal authorities are charging with attempting to extort the Home of the Whopper. Burke, whose law firm once did tax work for Donald Trump, is accused of threatening to withhold permits that a Burger King restaurant wanted for a remodeling project in his ward, because the chain wouldn’t give him tax work. (Crain’s Chicago Business) (Chicago Tribune)

  • The former chair of Latham & Watkins’ insurance counseling and recovery practice, Peter K. Rosen, has joined JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution provider. JAMS said ...

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