2nd Circuit Overturns Convictions In Rabobank LIBOR Criminal Proceedings

Mealey's (July 20, 2017, 2:28 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — In what the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is calling the first criminal appeal related to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to reach a federal appellate court, the appeals court on July 19 overturned the convictions of two former employees of Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank), ruling that a district court erred in allowing compelled testimony because it is not allowed in U.S. criminal cases even when it was compelled by a foreign sovereign (United States of America v. Anthony Allen, et al., Nos. 16-898-cr and 16-939-cr, 2nd Cir.)....