The criminal case arising out of Dewey & LeBoeuf’s dramatic spiral into bankruptcy five years ago led to a somewhat less dramatic verdict on Monday, when a Manhattan jury found the firm’s former chief financial officer guilty of fraud and conspiracy, while acquitting its former executive director on all counts.
The retrial conviction of former Dewey & LeBoeuf CFO Joel Sanders stands in contrast to a much more ambitious start to the case in 2014, when the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. sought to put four people on trial for hundreds of charges.
