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ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ex-BigLaw Atty Gets Prison For Conduct In Bankruptcy Case Law360, New York (May 7, 2021, 5:45 PM EDT) -- A Manhattan federal judge hit a hedge fund pro and onetime BigLaw lawyer with six months in prison Friday for illegally pressuring Jefferies Financial Group not to challenge his bid for assets sold by retailer Neiman Marcus in a Texas bankruptcy. U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote said Daniel Kamensky, who has shut down his $1 billion Marble Ridge Capital LP fund, is a "good man" who engaged in "deeply disturbing behavior" in imposing sentence. She directed him...

Litigation Release No. 25028 / February 10, 2021 Securities and Exchange Commission v. David Hu, Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-05496 (S.D.N.Y. filed July 17, 2020) On February 1, 2021, Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a partial judgment against David Hu, the co-founder and chief investment officer of International Investment Group (IIG), a formerly registered investment adviser, enjoining Hu from violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. The Commission revoked IIG's registration in November 2019. According to t...

A hedge fund founder and onetime BigLaw attorney accused of illegally pressuring Jefferies Financial Group not to challenge his bid for assets sold by insolvent retailer Neiman Marcus copped to a count of bankruptcy fraud in Manhattan federal court Wednesday.

+ Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced that ALHASSAN IDDRIS LARI, a/k/a Hassan Lari, pled guilty today to conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlawful money transmitting business, in connection with his involvement from at least in or about 2...

Anthony Guzzone, a former Director of Global Construction at Bloomberg, LP ("Bloomberg"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 38 months in prison for evading taxes on more than $1.45 million in bribes he received from building sub-contractors. Guzzone previously pled guilty to those charges, and was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman. In related proceedings, co-conspirator Michael Campana, a subordinate construction manager at Bloomberg, was sentenced on July 24, 2020, by the Honorable Denise L. Cote to 24 months in prison, for evading taxes on more than $...