Call 855-808-4530 or email [email protected] to receive your discount on a new subscription.
CALIFORNIA
Former DEA Agent Sentenced to over Six Years
After pleading guilty on July 1, 2015 to extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, on Oct. 19, 2015, former DEA veteran of 15 years, Carl Force, was sentenced to 78 months in prison, ordered to pay $340,000 in restitution, and sentenced to serve three years of supervised release. The sentence was the result of the role Force played in the Silk Road investigation, what was a multi-agency effort to crack down on an online platform to buy and sell illegal drugs. For payment, Silk Road utilized “Bitcoin,” a virtual currency. As an undercover agent on the Silk Road task force, Force was in charge of taking down the founder of this black market operation, Ross Ulbricht. The latter was convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering and hacking, and sentenced to life in prison earlier this year.
ENJOY UNLIMITED ACCESS TO THE SINGLE SOURCE OF OBJECTIVE LEGAL ANALYSIS, PRACTICAL INSIGHTS, AND NEWS IN ENTERTAINMENT LAW.
Already a have an account? Sign In Now Log In Now
For enterprise-wide or corporate acess, please contact Customer Service at [email protected] or 877-256-2473
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?