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NC Justices Urged To Rethink Policy 'Stacking' Limits
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

NC Justices Urged To Rethink Policy 'Stacking' Limits <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1830120?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…> By Travis Bland A policyholder is urging the North Carolina Supreme Court to walk back a decision that he says will negate insurance coverage when drivers at fault for wrecks are underinsured, arguing the holding conflicts with precedent. Petition attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1830120?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/insurance/articles/1830120?nl_pk=59612751-8689-4b1e-…>

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Texas Judge Says X Can Access Watchdog's Internal Docs
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

Texas Judge Says X Can Access Watchdog's Internal Docs <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1830699?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> By Spencer Brewer A Texas federal judge has ruled that X Corp. can access the internal communications and donor lists of a media watchdog the tech company accused of spurring advertisers to ditch the social media platform, saying the watchdog hadn't shown a good enough reason to pause discovery. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1830699?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…> | Save to <https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1830699?nl_pk=2bd720dd-746c-4744…>

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Buffalo Judge Won't Be Ejected For Brawl, Ethics Failures
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

Buffalo Judge Won't Be Ejected For Brawl, Ethics Failures <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1441139?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Frank G. Runyeon New York state's judicial ethics watchdog said Tuesday that a Buffalo judge should be censured but not removed following an investigation into a street fight with neighbors during which the judge shoved an officer and touted his ties to the mayor and police, among other ethical lapses. 1 document attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1441139?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1441139?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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High Court Uncertainty Stalls SEC Case Against Marcum CPA
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

High Court Uncertainty Stalls SEC Case Against Marcum CPA <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1830893?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> By Jessica Corso The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to stay an in-house proceeding against a partner at accounting firm Marcum LLP accused of failing to properly oversee public company audits, saying that an impending U.S. Supreme Court ruling could call into doubt the agency's ability to fine the accountant. Order attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1830893?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1830893?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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Ex-Autonomy VP Says CEO Lynch Told Him To Lie To Investors
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

Ex-Autonomy VP Says CEO Lynch Told Him To Lie To Investors <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1831419?nl_pk=a94fc…> By Bonnie Eslinger A former Autonomy business development executive testified Tuesday that CEO Mike Lynch directed him to lie to a hedge fund investor about prepaid royalty deals that boosted the company's upfront revenue numbers, saying at Lynch's criminal fraud trial that it was hard to say no to the "big boss." Read full article » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1831419?nl_pk=a94fc…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1831419?nl_pk=a94fc…>

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Payment Co. Hits Back Over Failed Domain Name Deal
by Gunnar Larson 01 May '24

01 May '24

Payment Co. Hits Back Over Failed Domain Name Deal <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1830520?nl_pk=a94fc…> By William Janes Several payments companies and their bosses have hit back at claims by a Nuvei Group subsidiary, denying that they broke a promise to use the company's payments technology as part of a deal to use a website domain. Read full article » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1830520?nl_pk=a94fc…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1830520?nl_pk=a94fc…>

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Feds Accused Of 'Outrageous' Misconduct In Ozy Media Case
by Gunnar Larson 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Feds Accused Of 'Outrageous' Misconduct In Ozy Media Case <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1829998?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> By Rose Krebs Ozy Media and the defunct startup's founder want a New York federal judge to toss a criminal fraud case against them, accusing the government of prosecutorial misconduct and violating attorney-client privilege protections. 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1829998?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1829998?nl_pk=ac5a3855-e47c-4403-be…>

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Banks Have Won Syndicated Loan Battle, But Not The War
by Gunnar Larson 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Banks Have Won Syndicated Loan Battle, But Not The War <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1826217?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> Though the U.S. Supreme Court's recent denial of certiorari in Kirschner v. JPMorgan preserves the status quo that syndicated loans are not securities, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's discomfort suggests that the underlying issues have not been fully resolved, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1826217?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/capitalmarkets/articles/1826217?nl_pk=abe82add-2a33-…>

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Smollett Atty Wants Sanctions Over Missing Therapy Records
by Gunnar Larson 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

Smollett Atty Wants Sanctions Over Missing Therapy Records <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1830704?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> By Celeste Bott An attorney for Jussie Smollett has asked an Illinois federal judge for another round of sanctions after two brothers who allegedly helped stage a hate crime against the actor failed to turn over discovery, saying they've refused to turn over records or answer questions in the defamation suit pertaining to their mental health treatment. Memorandum attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1830704?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1830704?nl_pk=153d4a8a-6fb9-4a5…>

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JPMorgan Remains the Second Largest Money Market Fund Manager, Despite Needing Billions in Money Market Bailouts from the Fed in 2020
by Gunnar Larson 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/04/jpmorgan-remains-the-second-largest-… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 30, 2024 ~ The Office of Financial Research (OFR), the federal agency created after the financial crash of 2008 to keep federal banking regulators on top of threats to financial stability, has posted an interactive chart showing the largest managers of Money Market Mutual Funds in the U.S. Alarmingly, the parent of the largest and riskiest bank in the United States – JPMorgan Chase – is also the second largest Money Market Mutual Fund manager. According to the OFR, as of March 31, 2024, JPMorgan was managing $657.9 billion in money market funds, second only to Fidelity, which on the same date was managing $1.3 trillion in money market funds. The data comes from Securities and Exchange Commission Form N-MFP2. JPMorgan’s federal regulators have failed to stem the bank’s growth despite the fact that JPMorgan Chase has been tapping massive bailouts from the Federal Reserve since the last quarter of 2019, as well as being charged with nonstop crimes. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Fed created an alphabet soup of emergency lending programs, one of which was the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF). When the Fed finally released the granular details two years later of which firms tapped the emergency facilities, it showed that 10 of JPMorgan’s money market funds needed to borrow a combined $8.97 billion on the MMLF’s very first day of operation. The $8.97 billion represented 32 percent of the $27.15 billion in funds loaned that day by the Fed’s MMLF. JPMorgan money market funds’ liquidity problem on March 23, 2020 appears to have centered on JPMorgan’s tax-free money market funds holding billions of dollars in New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA’s) short-term revenue notes. Those were prominent among the instruments submitted as collateral to the Fed for loans from the MMLF. The MTA notes apparently could not be sold by JPMorgan to meet redemption requests without causing the money market fund to break the buck. Money market mutual funds are expected to trade at a stable $1.00 per share. It is known as “breaking the buck” when money market funds trade for less than $1.00 per share. Breaking the buck occurred at several money market funds during the financial crisis of 2008 and increased the financial panic occurring at the time. To stem the run on money markets in 2008, the U.S. Treasury was forced to take the unprecedented step of guaranteeing money market mutual funds. Why JPMorgan’s money market funds had such concentrated exposure to one municipal issuer’s notes should warrant the attention of its regulators. JPMorgan was also an outsized user of the Fed’s Primary Dealer Credit Facility. The transaction data released by the Fed showed that at the end of the first 11 business days of operation of the PDCF, on April 3, 2020, the Fed had an outstanding balance in the PDCF of $49.5 billion and the trading unit of JPMorgan had borrowed $14 billion of that, or 28 percent of the total. JPMorgan’s need to tap the emergency repo loans from the Fed, which began on September 17, 2019 – months before there were any reported cases of COVID-19 anywhere in the world – was also deeply alarming. According to the quarterly data releases by the Fed for its emergency repo loans (after a delay of two years), the trading unit of JPMorgan (J.P. Morgan Securities) borrowed $2.59 trillion in term-adjusted cumulative repo loans in the fourth quarter of 2019 (see chart below) and another $3.6 trillion in the first quarter of 2020. Fed's Repo Loans to Largest Borrowers, Q4 2019, Adjusted for Term of Loan When the Fed released the shocking details showing that a unit of the largest bank in the United States needed enormous sums of emergency cash in the fall of 2019, it should have made front page headlines in every newspaper in America. Instead, there was a complete news blackout among mainstream media and the major business press.

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