Manhattan Federal Court Judge

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday grilled Coinbase and the US securities regulator about their divergent views on whether and when digital assets are securities, in a case closely watched by the cryptocurrency industry.

Elon Musk asked a US judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion (roughly Rs. 21,20,200 crore) racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. In an evening filing in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Musk and his electric car company Tesla called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors a "fanciful...

A lawyer for an Afghan-born US citizen charged with bombings in New York and New Jersey over the weekend asked a federal judge to schedule his first court appearance today, possibly in his hospital bed.

A New York Judge has ordered Dinesh D'Souza, an Indian-American conservative scribe and Mr Obama critic filmmaker, to do community service for four more years for breaking campaign-finance laws and undergo further counselling.

The ruling came a week after what would have been the May 4 start of a criminal trial in Manhattan federal court of Ceglia.

The settlement was filed on Thursday by the SEC in New York federal court, three months after a federal jury in Manhattan acquitted Rengan Rajaratnam of conspiring to engage in insider trading, a rare defeat for US prosecutors. Under the agreement with the SEC, Rajaratnam will pay the $841,243 in four equal payments and will neither admit nor deny ...

Mr Aggarwal, 40, was arrested in connection with the insider trading scheme in July this year and following a cooperation agreement, pled guilty yesterday before US Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud.

A US court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Indian-origin law student against Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the Justice Department for unlawfully questioning her and seizing the phone during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.

The defense lawyer for a former Goldman Sachs board member accused of insider trading notified the judge on Sunday that his client will not testify at his trial. Attorney Gary Naftalis sent a letter to Manhattan federal court judge Jed Rakoff saying that Rajat Gupta "will not be a witness on his own behalf in the defense case."

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday grilled Coinbase and the US securities regulator about their divergent views on whether and when digital assets are securities, in a case closely watched by the cryptocurrency industry.

Elon Musk asked a US judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion (roughly Rs. 21,20,200 crore) racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. In an evening filing in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Musk and his electric car company Tesla called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors a "fanciful...

A lawyer for an Afghan-born US citizen charged with bombings in New York and New Jersey over the weekend asked a federal judge to schedule his first court appearance today, possibly in his hospital bed.

A New York Judge has ordered Dinesh D'Souza, an Indian-American conservative scribe and Mr Obama critic filmmaker, to do community service for four more years for breaking campaign-finance laws and undergo further counselling.

The ruling came a week after what would have been the May 4 start of a criminal trial in Manhattan federal court of Ceglia.

The settlement was filed on Thursday by the SEC in New York federal court, three months after a federal jury in Manhattan acquitted Rengan Rajaratnam of conspiring to engage in insider trading, a rare defeat for US prosecutors. Under the agreement with the SEC, Rajaratnam will pay the $841,243 in four equal payments and will neither admit nor deny ...

Mr Aggarwal, 40, was arrested in connection with the insider trading scheme in July this year and following a cooperation agreement, pled guilty yesterday before US Magistrate Judge Ronald Ellis in Manhattan federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and one count of securities fraud.

A US court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Indian-origin law student against Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the Justice Department for unlawfully questioning her and seizing the phone during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.

The defense lawyer for a former Goldman Sachs board member accused of insider trading notified the judge on Sunday that his client will not testify at his trial. Attorney Gary Naftalis sent a letter to Manhattan federal court judge Jed Rakoff saying that Rajat Gupta "will not be a witness on his own behalf in the defense case."