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M&A Lawyer Pleads Not Guilty to Leading Insider-Trading Ring

A former mergers and acquisitions lawyer with top firms including Latham & Watkins and Goodwin Procter pleaded not guilty to charges that he led a massive insider trading ring that made tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits.

Nicolo Nourafchan arrives at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on June 1. Photographer: Mel Musto/Bloomberg
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Google Engineer Charged With Insider Trading on Polymarket

A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made more than $1 million betting on one of last year’s most popular Internet searches.

The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, US, on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Alphabet Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on April 24. Photographer David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Elite M&A Lawyers Fed Massive Insider-Trading Ring, US Says

Lawyers from top mergers and acquisitions firms provided tips on some of the biggest deals of the last decade to an insider trading ring that made tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits, federal prosecutors said.

Security guards walk the by the entrance to the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, in Boston on April 14, 2023. Photographer: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
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Trump Administration to Appeal Ruling on NYC Congestion Toll

President Donald Trump’s administration is continuing its push to end New York City’s congestion pricing program by appealing a decision by a federal judge that allowed the tolling plan to proceed.

Traffic on an Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge off-ramp in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. New York City's public buses and taxis are traveling at faster speeds after the start of a controversial congestion-pricing program that charges motorists to drive on Manhattan's busiest streets, according to a report from the Regional Plan Association. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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UK Man Agrees to Plead Guilty in ‘Singapore Solution’ Tax Case

A UK citizen has agreed to plead guilty over his role in helping Americans use offshore accounts to evade taxes through a scheme known as the “Singapore Solution,” US prosecutors said.

The Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse in New York, US, on Monday, July 14, 2025. Tornado Cash Co-Founder Roman Storm is charged with scheming to help launder more than $1 billion for Tornado Cash clients that included a North Korean cybercrime organization. Photographer: Christian Monterrosa/Bloomberg
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Soldier Pleads Not Guilty to Insider Trading on Maduro Raid

A US Army special forces master sergeant pleaded not guilty to charges of trading on classified information about the operation to capture then-Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a US Army soldier, exits federal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Van Dyke was charged with using classified information about the timing of the capture of then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to make more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket’s prediction market, the Justice Department said.
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Trump Restarts Funds for NYC Second Avenue Subway Extension

The Trump administration said it will resume funding for a $7 billion project to extend the Second Avenue subway to Harlem after New York City’s transit system sued over a freeze in payments.

A construction site for the Second Avenue Subway extension at East 106th Street in New York, US, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026. New York's transit authority sued the Trump administration to unpause federal funds tied to a $7 billion project that would extend the Second Avenue subway to Harlem.
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Insider-Trading Scheme Born of Romance Snags Another Broker

A second former Spartan Capital Securities broker was accused of making hundreds of thousands of dollars on insider trades from tips linked to a man who stole confidential corporate deal information from his girlfriend’s laptop while they were working at home during the pandemic.

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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New York City Sues to Ban ‘Unlawful’ Empower Ridehail App

New York City sued ridehail app Empower and founder Joshua Sear, claiming the company has been operating unlawfully without a license the past few years even as the service gained popularity by offering cheap fares to customers.

Rideshare platform Empower's CEO, Joshua Sear, leads the rally while hundreds of Empower's drivers gather in front of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington on March 13, 2025, to demand that Empower not be shut down.
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Musk Takes a Swipe at Bowtied Judge in Twitter Investor Case

Elon Musk took to his social media network to attack the judge in the trial he lost last week when a jury found the billionaire defrauded Twitter Inc. shareholders before acquiring the platform in 2022.

Elon Musk, executive chairman and chief technology officer of X Corp., center, arrives at federal court in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Elon Musk’s brief effort to back out of buying Twitter Inc. in 2022 is the focus of a trial that kicked off Monday over claims the world’s richest person manipulated the company’s stock price to get himself a better deal.
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