Halkbank, Bank of America Suits Proceed in SDNY: New York Brief

Legal Aid keeps its Big Law backing, lessons are learned from NJ Transit’s defeat, and a sliver of millionaires say to tax them more, below:

Docket Watch: Halkbank, Epstein, Diddy

A conference in the criminal case against Turkish state lender Halk Bankasi is scheduled for Wednesday in Manhattan federal court on, the first since the US Supreme Court declined to consider Halkbank’s sovereign immunity arguments. The US indicted the bank in 2019 for allegedly participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade sanctions on Iran.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan raised the case with President Donald Trump at the White House ...