Bloomberg Law
May 4, 2018, 10:17 PM UTC

Former U.S. Attorney, Bryan Cave Accused of Hacking Cover-Up

Samson Habte
Samson Habte
Reporter

A little-noticed lawsuit filed in New York federal court last weekend accuses a former federal prosecutor of unethically preventing a whistleblower from telling the FTC that he hacked an embattled company’s files using “FBI surveillance software” that the prosecutor gave him.

The lawsuit, filed April 28, makes explosive allegations against former U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, the global megafirm where she is now a partner.

The plaintiff is LabMD Inc., a cancer-screening lab that says it went out of business after falling victim to a “shakedown scheme” by a cybersecurity firm that hacked the ...

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