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Wall Street’s Go-To Law Firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, Got in Bed with Crypto; Now Its Reputation Is Being Hammered
by professor rat 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

" Wall Street’s Go-To Law Firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, Got in Bed with Crypto; Now Its Reputation Is Being Hammered ". basically attacks everything cryptoanarchistenough tech has created in the last dozen odd years. This raises the question - is Gunnar Larson more than just another serial pest on this list? I now have to wonder if he isn’t working for the fucking Gilead USG. Much like Karl Semich certainly is. US federales go kill yourselves. Before we hunt you down and do you slowly. DIE!

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Texas Hotel REIT Says Blackwells Wants Illegal Proxy Contest
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Texas Hotel REIT Says Blackwells Wants Illegal Proxy Contest <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1817104?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Spencer Brewer A Texas hotel real estate investment trust asked a Texas federal court Sunday to stop a shareholder vote "from being infected with deception and misinformation," saying a New York-based hedge fund wants to run an illegal proxy contest to take control of the company's board of directors while hiding plans to buy it. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1817104?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1817104?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Truth Social To Start Trading With Performance Tied To Trump
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Truth Social To Start Trading With Performance Tied To Trump <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/1817277?nl_pk=a34c25b5-…> By Tom Zanki Shares of former President Donald Trump's nascent social media platform Truth Social are set to begin trading Tuesday, setting up a potentially volatile ride for an unprofitable company with scant revenue. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/1817277?nl_pk=a34c25b5-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/mergersacquisitions/articles/1817277?nl_pk=a34c25b5-…>

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3 Class Claims Follow US Antitrust Suit Against Apple
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

3 Class Claims Follow US Antitrust Suit Against Apple <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1816946?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> By Jared Foretek Days after the U.S. Department of Justice filed a sweeping antitrust suit against Apple in New Jersey federal court, a group of iPhone buyers are filing suit, launching three separate proposed class actions between Friday and Saturday accusing the tech giant of suppressing innovation in the digital apps, wearables and payments industries through anticompetitive agreements. 3 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1816946?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1816946?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…>

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GOP Reps. Re-Up Demand For Biden Classified Docs Info
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

GOP Reps. Re-Up Demand For Biden Classified Docs Info <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817323?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Courtney Bublé Two top Republicans sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday threatening to possibly hold him in contempt of Congress if he doesn't answer their subpoena for materials related to the special counsel's investigation of President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents. Letter attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817323?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817323?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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Judge Finalizes Ban On Taking $540M IP Fight To China
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Judge Finalizes Ban On Taking $540M IP Fight To China <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1817339?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> By Adam Lidgett An Illinois federal judge granted Motorola's request to stop Hytera from pursuing a non-infringement case against it in China, saying Monday that she would also start contempt proceedings in the case. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1817339?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1817339?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…>

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Crypto Group, Apparel Co. Sue Over SEC Crypto Policy
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Crypto Group, Apparel Co. Sue Over SEC Crypto Policy <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1817238?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> By Aislinn Keely A Texas-based apparel company on Monday teamed up with a crypto industry group to sue the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over an alleged pattern of enforcement against crypto firms, which the brand said threatens its business since it distributed its own digital token. Complaint attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1817238?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/1817238?nl_pk=d2b3e7ef-ab62-4a62-80…>

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Almost 10, 000 U.S. Banks Have Disappeared Since 1985, Leaving 4 Mega Banks Controlling 39 Percent of Bank Assets
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/03/almost-10000-u-s-banks-have-disappea… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 26, 2024 ~ Taming the Megabanks, Book JacketAccording to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) data, there were 14,417 federally-insured banking institutions in the U.S. in 1985. As of December 31, 2023, the FDIC reports there are only 4,587 remaining. The vast majority of the 9,830 banks that have disappeared since 1985 did not fail – they were merged with other banks. Today, just four banks control $9.3 trillion in consolidated bank assets or 39 percent of all bank assets. Those four banks are JPMorgan Chase with $3.395 trillion in consolidated assets; Bank of America with $2.540 trillion; Wells Fargo with $1.7 trillion; and Citigroup’s Citibank with $1.685 trillion. (All asset figures are as of December 31, 2023 and come from the Federal Reserve’s statistical release of the largest banks.) The political clout of these mega banks is such that one of them, JPMorgan Chase, has been allowed to commit a string of felonies and audacious crimes since 2011; get deferred-prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements from the Justice Department; assist the notorious sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for a decade with the hard cash needed to keep himself and his pals supplied with underage girls; and still keep the same Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, at the helm of the bank. And what is Dimon up to these days, he’s leading the charge by the mega banks to stop the banks’ federal regulators from imposing higher capital standards on the largest banks with the largest trading and derivative operations to prevent a replay of their crashing the U.S. economy in 2008. How did the American people allow their banking system to become so corrupted by powerful interests? You can thank former President Bill Clinton and the Wall Street sycophants that packed his administration. President Bill Clinton Laughs It Up as He Signs the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, November 12, 1999 President Bill Clinton Laughs It Up as He Signs the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, November 12, 1999 The Glass-Steagall Act had kept the U.S. banking system safe for 66 years until it was repealed by President Bill Clinton in 1999, allowing the dangerous activities of Wall Street’s trading firms to merge with federally-insured, deposit-taking banks. This was the backdrop for the Wall Street collapse in 2008, which cost millions of Americans their jobs and put millions of families into foreclosure on their homes. Then there was the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act of 1994, which Bill Clinton signed into law less than two years after taking office. The Riegle-Neal legislation allowed bank holding companies to acquire banks anywhere in the nation and invalidated the laws of 36 states which had allowed interstate banking only on a reciprocal or regional basis. Law Professor Art Wilmarth writes as follows in the seminal work on U.S. banking history, Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act: “The Riegle-Neal Act accelerated the wave of consolidation that was already sweeping through the banking industry. Bank regulators and the Department of Justice encouraged that consolidation trend by applying very lenient antitrust review standards to bank mergers. Seventy-four megamergers—in which the acquiring and acquired banks each held more than $10 billion of assets—occurred between 1990 and 2005. During the same period, the ten largest U.S. banks increased their share of U.S. banking assets from 25% to 55%. The three largest U.S. banking organizations in 2007—Citigroup, BofA, and JPMC—each owned more than $1.5 trillion of assets at the end of 2007. Wachovia, the fourth-largest bank, had almost $800 billion of assets at the end of 2007. As the largest banks exploded in size, they also acquired unprecedented political clout.” But the Clinton administration was not finished deforming the U.S. banking system. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 was also signed into law by Bill Clinton. It allowed trillions of dollars of OTC derivatives on Wall Street to escape regulation, greasing the skids for the 2008 financial collapse. (See our recent February article: Five Wall Street Banks Hold $223 Trillion in Derivatives — 83 Percent of All Derivatives at 4,600 Banks.) By allowing these mega banks to gobble up banks all over the country and stick their logo on thousands of insured-deposit branches across America, Bill Clinton effectively created too-big-to-fail. And because these same handful of banks are dangerously interconnected as counterparties to trillions of dollars in opaque derivatives, when the stock market sinks their share prices sink in tandem, raising very legitimate concerns of another banking contagion similar to 2008 and 1929. America got a small taste of how fast bank contagion can spread in the spring of last year when the second, third and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history occurred over the span of seven weeks. Once again, the Federal Reserve had to rush in with more bailout money for wobbly banks. (See Former New York Fed Pres Bill Dudley Calls This the First Banking Crisis Since 2008; Charts Show It’s the Third.) If you agree with Wall Street On Parade that the current banking structure in the U.S. represents a threat to national security and economic stability, please contact your U.S. Senators today via the U.S. Capitol switchboard by dialing (202) 224-3121. Tell your Senators to hold immediate hearings on the Fed’s non-stop bailouts of the banking sector and demand the restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act to separate Wall Street’s trading casinos from federally-insured commercial banks.

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Jackson Walker Dismissal Bid Says Atty Lied About Romance
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Jackson Walker Dismissal Bid Says Atty Lied About Romance <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817048?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Lynn LaRowe A former Jackson Walker LLP partner at the center of an ethics scandal over her relationship with a then-Texas bankruptcy judge was dishonest when questioned about the romance, the firm said Friday in seeking to escape a federal racketeering lawsuit. Motion attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817048?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1817048?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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Sunday Ticket Plaintiffs Rip NFL For 'Privileged' Name Games
by Gunnar Larson 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Sunday Ticket Plaintiffs Rip NFL For 'Privileged' Name Games <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1817286?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> By David Steele The plaintiffs in the antitrust class action against the NFL over its Sunday Ticket broadcast package have accused the league of hiding behind a front-office executive, with an inaccurate job title, to claim that vital documents were privileged and did not need to be disclosed. Brief attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1817286?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1817286?nl_pk=6416fd97-1dc4-4e0…>

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