On Monday, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Shaw v. United States, holding that a violation of the Bank Fraud Act, does not require proof that a defendant intends to target a bank, but only that defendant’s...more
A phenomenon virtually foreign to the 20th Century, the use of pre-plea agreements by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), typically in the form of a deferred prosecution agreement (“DPA”) (or a non-prosecution agreement...more