Bloomberg Law
Feb. 8, 2017, 7:42 PM UTC

Akin Gump Responds to Partner’s Arrest

Casey Sullivan

News emerged Wednesday morning from Bloomberg News of an Akin Gump partner who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of trying to sell a copy of a secret lawsuit to the company under investigation.

Jeffrey Wertkin was arrested on Jan. 31 in a disguise while trying to sell a copy of the complaint to an employee of the company, which was accused by a whistleblower of falsely billing the government, the Bloomberg story said.

That’s from reporters Jef Feeley, David Voreacos and Joel Rosenblatt. The full story has more of the details about the who, what, where and when ...

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