The U.S Department of Justice announced that Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to single charge of conspiracy to defraud the FAA about its 737 Max 8’s development. This agreement resulted from two crashes of the aerospace’s 737 Max jetliners that occurred in 2018 and 2019 and resulted in the Read More
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is holding online used car dealer Vroom responsible for misrepresenting that it thoroughly examined all vehicles before listing them for sale and failing to obtain consumers’ consent to shipment delays or provide prompt refunds when cars weren’t delivered in the time Vroom promised. Read More
In a landmark case, the Supreme Court has struck down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s authority to use in house-tribunals when seeking civil penalties against those accused of securities fraud. The Court, in the case of SEC v. Jarksey, ruled that when the SEC seeks civil penalties from defendants for Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Silvergate Capital, its former CEO Alan Lane, and former Chief Risk Officer Kathleen Fraher with misleading investors about the strength of the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) compliance program and the monitoring of crypto customers, including FTX. The SEC also charged Silvergate and its Read More
In a major judicial ruling, the Supreme Court overruled a long-standing doctrine that permitted courts to defer to federal agencies on the interpretations of ambiguous laws. In the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court invalidated the “Chevron Deference” doctrine which effectively shifts the power to interpret complex Read More
