‘Enforcement 40’ for 2020
Our Sponsors
Join Us On LinkedIn
Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInElizabeth Holmes Transforming From CEO to Victim for Jurors
Jurors have not been told yet about the details of the defense Holmes’s lawyers will likely present that she was subject to a “decade-long campaign” of abuse by her former boyfriend and onetime president of Theranos, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Balwani has denied any abuse. Still, jurors who will decide her case are “being exposed to […]
Elizabeth Holmes’ lawyers cite negative coverage in request to expand jury selection
A 21-page motion filed late Thursday spelled out example after example of highly descriptive and unflattering stories in the past several years about Holmes. “The publicity is pervasively negative,” lawyers for Holmes said. Adding she is, “routinely referred to in derisive and inflammatory terms that are directly relevant to the wire fraud charges in this […]
California’s Covid surge forces trial delay of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes
A surge in coronavirus cases in California has led to a four-month delay in the criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO and founder of embattled health tech company, Theranos. In a late Friday night order, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila set a new trial date of July 13, 2021 for the case. Source: […]
Elizabeth Holmes Theranos trial to be held in person with masks, social distancing
In what is expected to be one of the most high profile trials in years, Elizabeth Holmes will face jurors wearing clear face masks in a socially distanced courtroom, a judge said Wednesday. The trial, to begin March 9, 2021 at a San Jose federal courthouse is expected to play out over two to four […]
SEC Wins Jury Trial Against Massachusetts Man Charged in Multi-Year Insider Trading Scheme
Yesterday evening, jurors in Boston federal court returned a verdict finding that Lexington, Massachusetts restauranteur Charlie Chen engaged in illegal insider trading in advance of five earnings announcements of Lexington-based company Vistaprint, N.V. The SEC’s evidence at trial showed that Chen, who was close friends with a Vistaprint insider and her husband, received highly confidential […]
SEC Wins Jury Trial in Layering, Manipulative Trading Case
Today, jurors in New York federal court returned a verdict in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s favor against a trading firm headquartered in Kiev, Ukraine, and two individuals for their roles in an unlawful trading scheme that generated more than $25 million in illicit profit. The SEC’s evidence at trial showed that Nathan Fayyer and […]
Nobody Is That Lucky, Prosecutor Tells Insider-Trading Jury – Bloomberg
For anyone to successfully trade five times in a row on health-care mergers, they need inside information, a prosecutor told a jury in the retrial of former Perella Weinberg Partners LP managing director Sean Stewart. “Winning the lottery once takes astronomical odds, winning it five times — that doesn’t happen,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samson Enzer […]
What’s Next for Elizabeth Holmes in the Theranos Fraud Case? – The New York Times
If Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani do not plead guilty, the question at a trial will be whether the two defendants were brazen liars, as the government will argue, or whether they were just as deluded as everyone else by Ms. Holmes’s vision of disrupting the health care industry. via What’s Next for Elizabeth Holmes […]
NZ’s first insider trading trial begins in Auckland | Radio New Zealand News
The first person to go on trial in New Zealand for insider trading sold his shares in a company after getting a tip-off from an employee, the High Court has heard. via NZ’s first insider trading trial begins in Auckland | Radio New Zealand News.
Feds Seek Third Try at Mazzo | Orange County Business Journal
Justice Department lawyers said this week they plan to try medical-device executive Jim Mazzo for a third time for violating insider trading rules after two prior efforts ended in hung juries. 10 of 12 jurors in Mazzo’s second mistrial in February favored acquitting him on at least 19 of 20 counts. In May 2017 in […]