• A San Francisco federal judge sentenced former Akin Gump partner Jeffrey Wertkin to 30 months in prison for allegedly stealing 40 sealed whistle-blower lawsuits when he left the Justice Department and peddling some of them to companies named in the suits. ( Bloomberg )
• A New York federal court ruled that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has authority to regulate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as commodities, clearing the way for the agency’s fraud case against a company doing business as Coin Drop Markets and its CEO. ( Bloomberg Law via BLB )
• Wells Fargo has to convince an arbitrator rather than a ...
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