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SEC claims couple hijacked a charity

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

The SEC has brought a stream of Ponzi scheme cases in recent months in which little has been left for investors. SEC v. We the People, Inc. (S.D. Fla

The new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resource guide: an opportunity to review your nonprofit’s compliance

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 30 2012

On November 14, 2012, the long-awaited U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) guidance (the “Guidance”) was released

Fraudsters without morals

  • Mishcon de Reya
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 20 2012

Charities continue to fight fraud and financial crime on two fronts: internally and externally

Plaintiffs fail to state DFA and FCPA claims against convention for overseas missionary practices

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2012

In Nollner v. Southern Baptist Convention, Inc., Nos. 3:12-cv-00040, 3:12-cv-00043, 2012 WL 1108923 (M.D. Tenn. Ap. 3, 2012), the court held that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“DFA”) against the Southern Baptist Convention

The PicardWilpons settlement: what issues surface for the involved charitable private foundations and their respective fiduciaries?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2012

This Installment addresses some of the effects on, and implications for, certain charitable private foundations (collectively, the “Involved Foundations”) and their respective officers, directors, trustees and foundation managers (collectively, the “Fiduciaries”) under the proposed settlement agreement dated April 13, 2012 (the “Settlement Agreement”), between Madoff Trustee Irving Picard and the numerous defendants, constituting the Wilpon-Katz-Mets individual, business, family trust and charitable interests (collectively, the “Wilpons”

Insider gifts of securities to charities

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2011

A question posed occasionally at this time of year is whether a director or an officer may make a gift of his or her company’s securities to a charitable organization without exposing the director or officer to insider-trading liability under SEC Rule 10b-5

Will JASA become more forthcoming in disclosing its substantial losses and risks from investing with Madoff? - Installment 62

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2011

Installment 61 of this blog series on Madoff discussed the $5.2 million clawback lawsuit (the “JASA Lawsuit”) recently filed by Trustee Irving Picard against Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (“JASA”), reaffirming the perplexing and inconsistent manner, virtually to the point of arbitrariness and unfairness, with which Picard has handled charities that invested with Madoff

Charities and the Bribery Act - the distribution of aid using facilitation payments - will they be prosecuted?

  • McGuireWoods LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 7 2011

A few days ago I was speaking at a conference on the Bribery Act and someone asked me how the Act applies to the small payments that his charity had to make in order to get the aid which the charity is distributing across a war torn country actually delivered to the people in need

Madoff, Picard and charities: a comparison of treatment of the Lautenberg Foundation and the WilponKatz foundations - Part 2 - Installment 52

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2011

This is the fifty-second in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing issues arising in the aftermath of the global Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff (“Madoff”

Madoff and charities: the Lautenberg Foundation 2009 Form 990-pf - Part 1

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2011

This is the forty-ninth in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing issues arising in the aftermath of the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff

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