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How the Feds Blew a Case Against an Alleged South American Drug Money Launderer

For federal law enforcement officials, Martin Lustgarten Acherman was a prize catch in the war on drugs. Since 2007, investigators had been keeping tabs on the Miami-based businessman who maintains dual citizenship in Austria and Venezuela, methodically gathering evidence that Lustgarten was laundering tens of millions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug traffickers, as well as paramilitary groups, according to court documents obtained by VICE.

MONEY LAUNDERING: Feds moves to strip secrecy from cash real estate deals in Miami

The days of mysterious shell companies plunking down millions of dollars for homes in Miami-Dade County could be over.

DOJ Begins Criminal Investigation of Blue Bell Food Safety Violations

The trend of federal criminal investigations into food safety violations continues as the Department of Justice has reportedly begun investigating Blue Bell Creameries, LP (“Blue Bell”) resulting from the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak earlier in 2015 that killed three people.

3 Ways FRCP Amendments Could Affect Companies

It’s a big week for many in-house lawyers, outside attorneys and others concerned with litigation and e-discovery. Dec. 1 marks the first day that the first amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in almost a decade will be operational. Since the last FRCP amendments came out in 2006, a lot has changed