Manhattan Federal Judges

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 US judge on Wednesday temporarily barred FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from contacting current or former employees of the cryptocurrency exchange or his Alameda Research hedge fund, and from using encrypted messaging tools including Signal. The ruling by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan came after federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Bankman-Fri...

A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday ordered Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and the US Securities and Exchange Commission to meet for at least an hour.

President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Manhattan courthouse to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, telling a federal judge that he worked to silence two women before the 2016 election at the direction of then-candidate Trump.

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.

A Manhattan federal judge has denied a request for a new trial for Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted of being the mastermind behind the Silk Road online black market for illegal drugs

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 ...

US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan directed Mr Gupta to surrender by 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on that date to start serving his sentence at an institution chosen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to an order issued on Thursday.

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.

Al-Qaida, the Taliban and Iran should pay $6 billion to relatives of Sept. 11 victims for aiding in the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal magistrate judge recommended on Monday in a largely symbolic decision. Even though it will be nearly impossible to collect damages, plaintiff Ellen Saracini, whose husband, Victor, was the captain of one of the p...

An Indian-origin law student is suing Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the US Justice Department claiming she was unlawfully questioned, and her cell phone confiscated after she sent letters to the presiding judge during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.

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 US judge on Wednesday temporarily barred FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from contacting current or former employees of the cryptocurrency exchange or his Alameda Research hedge fund, and from using encrypted messaging tools including Signal. The ruling by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan came after federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Bankman-Fri...

A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday ordered Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and the US Securities and Exchange Commission to meet for at least an hour.

President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Manhattan courthouse to eight violations of banking, tax and campaign finance laws, telling a federal judge that he worked to silence two women before the 2016 election at the direction of then-candidate Trump.

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.

A Manhattan federal judge has denied a request for a new trial for Ross Ulbricht, the man convicted of being the mastermind behind the Silk Road online black market for illegal drugs

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 ...

US District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan directed Mr Gupta to surrender by 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on that date to start serving his sentence at an institution chosen by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to an order issued on Thursday.

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.

Al-Qaida, the Taliban and Iran should pay $6 billion to relatives of Sept. 11 victims for aiding in the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal magistrate judge recommended on Monday in a largely symbolic decision. Even though it will be nearly impossible to collect damages, plaintiff Ellen Saracini, whose husband, Victor, was the captain of one of the p...

An Indian-origin law student is suing Manhattan's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the US Justice Department claiming she was unlawfully questioned, and her cell phone confiscated after she sent letters to the presiding judge during Rajat Gupta's insider trading trial.