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Second Circuit Ruling on HSBC Deferred-Prosecution Agreement Suggests Judges Are Potted Plants
When then-Judge John Gleeson ruled in early 2016 that the public had a right to see a report by an independent monitor on how HBSC was faring since it entered into a controversial five-year deferred prosecution agreement, he noted that …