Pietro Deserio
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A three judge panel in the Eleventh Circuit issued a ruling last Thursday in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Barry Graham et al., Case No. 14-13562, holding—contrary to several other circuits—that the remedy of disgorgement was effectively a forfeiture, and therefore subject to the standard five-year statute of limitations. The SEC brought this case in … Continue Reading
Last week the Supreme Court further clarified the procedures and limits regarding the government’s ability to freeze assets in connection with criminal prosecutions. Following the 2014 decision in Kaley v. United States, where the Court ruled (in the government’s favor) that a defendant could not challenge the legality of a pre-trial asset seizure by contesting … Continue Reading
Eleventh Circuit Rules Disgorgement No Different Than Forfeiture, Barring SEC From Seeking Ill-Gotten Gains Outside Five-Year Limitations Period
By Joshua M. Newville and Pietro Deserio on Posted in SEC Enforcement, Securities Law, White Collar
Supreme Court Clarifies That Untainted Assets Cannot Be Frozen Pre-Trial By The Government
By Chantel L Febus and Pietro Deserio on Posted in White Collar
