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Landmark $1.375 Billion Settlement in S&P Case Highlights DOJ’s FIRREA Civil Enforcement
Just two years after the ink dried on the Department of Justice’s civil complaint against McGraw-Hill Financial, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Standard and Poor’s Financial Services LLC and almost a decade after S&P was alleged to have misled investors by promoting all-star grades… Read More
SOTU: What Obama’s Mandate Means for Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Enforcement
This guest post was co-authored by Stephen Grossman and Michael Hayes. Stephen and Michael are partners in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and co-chairs of the firm’s Electronic Discovery practice. Stephen can be reached at 856.488.7767 or at sgrossman@mmwr.com. Michael can be reached at 215.772.7211 or… Read More
The “Effects” of Fraud that “Affect” a Financial Institution
The Department of Justice has recently dusted off the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) – enacted following the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s to protect financial institutions from fraud – as an offensive weapon against financial institutions themselves.… Read More