Sandra Feist

• Immigration Policy During the Trump and Biden Administrations, University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy – Podcast (May 9, 2022).
• H-1B Visa Holders Hope Biden Administration Will Reform “Unpredictable” Process, National Public Radio’s Marketplace (December 28, 2020).
• Vote Like Immigrants’ Rights Depend On It — Because They Do, Ms. Magazine (October 10, 2020).
• Trump is now Blocking Most of the Legal Paths to Immigrate to the US, CNN (July 9, 2020).
• Trump Administration’s Swipe at Legal Immigration Puts Thousands of Lives in Limbo, CNN (June 25, 2020).
• New Visa Restrictions Less Likely to Save U.S. Jobs than Further Trump’s Anti-immigration Agenda, Experts Say, Sahan Journal (June 24, 2020).
• Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Efforts to End Young Immigrants’ Protections Under DACA, National Public Radio’s Marketplace (June 18, 2020).
• Trump Signs Order Pausing Immigration for 60 Days, With Exceptions, Washington Post (April 22, 2020).
• New Immigration Limits Cause Anxiety in Families and Businesses, New York Times (April 21, 2020).
• President Trump to Halt Legal Immigration to ‘Protect’ U.S. Workers, Newsy (April 21, 2020).
• Coronavirus Fueling ‘Total Chaos’ and Tough Decisions for Minnesota’s Immigration Workers, Minnesota Public Radio (April 7, 2020).
• It’s Not Just Undocumented Immigrants Who Are Left Out of the Stimulus Money, National Public Radio (April 2, 2020).
• Immigration Fees Set to Be Much Higher in 2020, National Public Radio (Jan. 3, 2020).
• Trump Has Built a Wall of Bureaucracy to Keep Out the Very Immigrants He Says He Wants, Mother Jones (December 2, 2019).
• Attacks on Legal Immigration, WSHU (NPR Affiliate) (Aug. 29, 2019).
• U.S. Employment-based Immigration Visas Bring Highly Skilled, Educated Workers to America, Homeland Preparedness News (July 31, 2019).
• H-1B Filing Fees Fund STEM Scholarships for Americans, National Public Radio’s Marketplace (June 11, 2019).
• Twin Cities Population Growth Crimped by Immigration Drop, Star Tribune (April 18, 2019).
• Changes Touted to Make H-1B Visa Applications Easier, National Public Radio’s Marketplace (March 22, 2019).
• Worker Visas in Doubt as Trump Immigration Crackdown Widens, Associated Press (Feb. 25, 2019).
• Playing the Waiting Game: Processing Delays at USCIS, Asian Journal (Feb. 14, 2019).
• Shifting of H-1B Visas Raises Eyebrows About Motive, Bloomberg Law (Feb. 14, 2019).
• Green Cards are Fine; That Blue Passport is Better, Minnesota Public Radio News (Dec. 3, 2018).
• Send Only Your ‘Best and Brightest’: What’s Ahead for H-1B Visas, Bloomberg Law (Oct. 4, 2018).
• Authorities Can Now Deny Visas and Green Card Applications Without Giving Applicants a Chance to Fix Errors, ProPublica (Sept. 11, 2018).
• Spouses of Immigration Techies Fear the Trump Administration Will Soon Revoke Their Ability to Work in the US, CNBC (August 28, 2018).
• Employment-Based Immigration, Immigration Nation with Kara Lynum Podcast (April 29, 2018).
• Attorneys Decry ‘Invisible Wall’ Blocking Legal Immigration, Bloomberg News (March 26, 2018).
• Lawyers Warn of the “Invisible Wall” that Trump Has Built with his Tough Immigration Policy, La Opinion (March 21, 2018).
• U.S. Appears Ready to Cut Work Permits for Immigrants’ Spouses, Minnesota Public Radio (March 15, 2018).
• More on the Intractable Disaster of U.S. Immigration Policy, News and Commentary by Seth Leventhal of Leventhal PLLC (Feb. 14, 2018).
• H-1B Visa Policy: A Close Look at Homeland Security Data: Administration Closely Scrutinizing Petitions for Entry-Level H-1B Workers, The Capitol Forum (Jan. 8, 2018).
• The Invisible Wall: How Trump is Slowing Immigration Without Laying a Brick, The Guardian (Dec. 23, 2017).
• High-skill Visas Getting More Government Scrutiny, Bloomberg Law (Dec. 20, 2017).
• Minnesota Employers of Skilled Immigrant Workers Say Trump Aims to Shame, not Reform, Star Tribune (Nov. 25, 2017).
• DOJ Threatens to Deport Four Minnesotans, CBS Minnesota (Nov. 7, 2017).
• Process for U.S. Work Visas Suddenly Gets Harder, Minnesota Public Radio News (Sept. 13, 2017).
• Stretched for Workers, Minnesota Businesses Lament Immigration Pushback, Star Tribune (Sept. 5, 2017).
• Minnesotans who Witnessed Katrina Reflect on Destruction in Texas, Fox 9 News (August 28, 2017).
• How the H-1B Program is Holding Up Under Trump, Bloomberg News (August 1, 2017).
• Visa Issue Forces Cancellation of Minneapolis Concerts by South Korean Dance Troupe, Star Tribune (Feb. 23, 2017).
• Attorneys Pull Shifts at Minneapolis-St. Paul International to Help Incoming Refugees, Star Tribune (Feb. 9, 2017).
• Local Immigrants Advocate for an End of Country Limit for Employment-based Green Cards, Star Tribune (Sept. 6, 2016).
• Minnesota Visa Families See New Opportunities for High-skilled Spouse, Star Tribune (Dec. 30, 2015).
• Ten years After Fleeing Katrina, Some Have Made Minnesota Home, Star Tribune (August 28, 2015).
• Workers Thrilled, Employers Underwhelmed by Skilled Immigration Changes, Star Tribune (Feb. 9, 2015).

Jeffrey E. Grell

• Dechert Ex-Partner Leak, Hack Allegations Threaten Firm Damage, Bloomberg Law (Feb. 28, 2023).
• “As Jim Schultz looks to expand attorney general power to fight crime, would state law let him?,” MinnPost (Oct. 24,2022).
• “Who’s RICO?,” Breakdown Podcast by the Atlanta Journal Constitution (Oct. 4, 2022).
• “Young Thug Case Shows RICO’s Shift from Mob to Gangs,” Law360 (June 17, 2022).
• “Could prosecutors use Young Thug’s lyrics against him in court?,” Grid (May 12, 2022).
• “How Young Thug’s RICO Case Could Play Out, According to a RICO Expert,” Vice (May 11, 2022).
• “Trump’s Russia Collusion Suit: A RICO Defense Atty’s Dream?,” Law360 (April 14, 2022).
• “Donald Trump sues Hillary Clinton over 2016 Russian Collusion Allegations,” Reuters (March 25, 2022).
• “Shopping for a Foxtrap, Part 1,” Bully Pulpit Podcast (Oct. 15. 2021).
• “The R. Kelly Guilty Verdict Was Nearly 30 Years in the Making,” Vanity Fair (Sept. 28, 2021).
• “Breaking down the racketeering charge facing R. Kelly,” Yahoo! News (Sept. 24, 2021).
• “Why is R. Kelly Standing Trial Alone?,” The New Yorker (Sept. 22, 2021).
• “What to expect from R. Kelly trial – from possible prison sentences to testimonies from Aaliyah’s friends and family,” Four Nine (Aug. 19, 2021).
• “A sex-abuse enterprise? Breaking down the unusual racketeering case against R. Kelly,” Chicago Tribune (Aug. 6, 2021).
• “Fulton DA’s Comfort with Racketeering Law Could Influence Trump Probe,” Atlanta Journal Constitution (March 15, 2021).
• “Exclusive: U.S. Mulls Using Law Designed to Prosecute Mafia Against Capitol Rioters,” U.S. Legal News (Feb. 3, 2021).
• “Racketeering Isn’t Just a Crime for Mobsters,” HowStuffWorks (Sept. 15, 2020).
• “What a RICO charge means for Huawei,” Quartz (Feb. 18, 2020).
• “Opioid Executive Admits to ‘No Morals’ Ahead of Prison Term,” The Irish Times (Jan. 25, 2020).
• “Insys Executives Are Sentenced to Prison Time, Putting Opioid Makers on Notice,” PBS Frontline (Jan. 23, 2020).
• “GM Battle Against Fiat Chrysler Faces Sizable Hurdles,” Wall Street Journal (Nov. 26, 2019).
• “GM’s ‘nuclear’ FAC racketeering suit difficult to prove,” Detroit News (Nov. 25, 2019).
• “GM’s Bribery Suit Against Fiat Faces Bumpy Road in Court,” Law360 (Nov. 22, 2019).
• “Why Free Speech Makes It Difficult to Prosecute White Supremacy in America,” Washington Post (Aug. 8, 2019).
• “Ebay Claims Amazon is Poaching Sellers in Violation of RICO,” KCBS Radio (Aug. 3, 2019).
• “Motion Seeks to Drop Up to 24 Charges in Federal Gang Case; Argument Centers Around Legal Definition of a Crime of Violence,” The Danville Register & Bee (June 19, 2019).
• “Peter Nygard Files RICO Suit Against Billionaire Bahamas Neighbour,” Winnipeg Free Press (Feb. 22, 2019).
• “Anti-Immigration Group Files RICO Suit Against Southern Poverty Law Center Over ‘Hate Group’ Label,” Daily Beast (Jan. 16, 2019).
• “State Farm’s Judicial Donations Central to Racketeering Trial,” Bloomberg Law (Sept. 4, 2018).
• “Just How Hard Will It Be to Take Down the Alleged ‘Weinstein Sexual Enterprise,’” Refinery29 (Dec. 7, 2017).
• “The 6 Women Suing Harvey Weinstein Are Using a Gangster Law Originally Designed to Take Down the Mafia — and Experts Warn it Won’t be Easy,” Business Insider (Dec. 7, 2017.)
• “Weinstein’s Alleged Sexual Misconduct Protected by Criminal Enterprise, Suit Claims,” New York Law Journal (Dec. 6, 2017).
• “Dakota Access Pipeline Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Environmentalists,” The Intercept (Nov. 15, 2017).
• “Ex-Venezuela Ambassador Takes Bribery Suit to High Court,” Law360 (Sept. 5, 2017).
• “RICO Charges are ‘A Way to Influence the Political Process to Project a Cost’ on Protestors,” Surius XM Patriot Radio (August 22, 2017).
• “Demanda Contra ‘Bolichiros’ Continuara en Corta de NY,” Notiminuto (March 12, 2017).
• “Ex-Ambassador Asks 2nd Circ. to Save Venezuelan Bribe Suit,” Law360 (March 10, 2017).
• “European Union’s RICO Suit Stalls at High Court,” Bloomberg Law (June 20, 2016).
• “U.S. RICO Case Could Impact Foreign Banks Linked to Money Laundering,” ACAMS moneylaundering.com (April 14, 2016).
• “Edward Fitzpatrick: Climate-change battle heats up between Whitehouse, Wall Street Journal,” Providence Journal (April 9, 2016).
• “A Federal Case Over Online Contests: Is ‘RICO’ a Reach in Derbywars Lawsuit,” Thoroughbred Daily News (Jan. 11, 2016).
• “RJR Nabisco RICO Claims Will Get Supreme Court Review,” 84 U.S.L.W. 12 (Oct. 6, 2015).
• “Reynolds American Suit,” Bloomberg Law Brief (Oct. 5, 2015).
• “Court Will Review Reynolds American Suit,” Bloomberg Law (Oct. 2, 2015).
• “Taking the Gangster Rap,” The Economist (August 8, 2015).
• “Racketeering Statute Cited in Shadow Insurance Disputes,” INN Daily Newsletter (July 14, 2015).
• “Sheldon Whitehouse: Sue Fossil Fuel Companies for Climate Fraud,” Huffington Post (June 3, 2015).
• “FIFAgate: The Increasingly Long Arm of American Justice,” Bilan (June 2, 2015).
• “RJR Nabisco En Banc Rehearing Denied; RICO Extraterritoriality Ripe for SCOTUS?,” 83 U.S.L.W. 40 (April 21, 2015).
• “Cheaters Never Prosper,” The Marshall Project (April 9, 2015).
• “Local Lawyers Argue that Gangsters Shouldn’t be Prosecuted Like Mafia,” Indy Week (February 4, 2015).
• “14 Charged in Deadly 2012 Meningitis Outbreak,” Boston Globe (December 17, 2014).
• “Future Could See More RICO Cases Like Garlock’s, Expert Says,” Legal News Line (September 12, 2014).
• “Pizzeria Owner, 75, Says He’ll Still Work After $6.5 Million Settlement,” Chicago Tribune (August 7, 2014).
• “Humana Files RICO Claim Over Medtronic Bone Drug – Health Insurer Alleges Device Maker Conspired with Physicians,” The Wall Street Journal (June 2, 2014).
• “Chevron’s RICO Case Against Plaintiffs Attorney Presents Unique Set of Facts, Attorney Says,” Legal Newsline (April 24, 2014).
• “Cheating Case Built on Confessions,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution (March 1, 2014).
• “Was Chevron Scammed for $19 Billion,” Newsweek (October 31, 2013).
• “Rare Racketeering Suits Filed in Mahoning Valley,” Tribune Chronicle (June 16, 2013).
• “Atlanta Testing Scandal Begins Long March to Justice,” USA Today (April 3, 2013).
• “RICO Presents Challenges in Atlanta Cheating Case,” Associated Press (April 1, 2013).
• “Racketeering Survives Against Coffee Beanery,” BlueMauMau.org (Sept. 4, 2012).
• “Hell Hath No Fury Like a RICO Action: Racketeering Charges Filed in Hedge Fund Divorce,” The New York Observer (July 18, 2012).
• “Racketeering Expert Goes After Coffee Beanery,” BlueMauMau.org (Feb. 8, 2012).
• “James Murdoch Admission Brings Him Closer to Facing Charges,” The Telegraph (Dec. 14, 2011).
• “Bartolomei Readies Tuscarora Suite; Feds Confer with Local Dissidents,” Niagara Falls Reporter (Sept. 27, 2011).
• “Phone Hacking: Rupert Murdock’s American Legal Woes Mount Up,” The Telegraph (July 14, 2011).
• “Suit Lobs Curve in Snowball Fight,” The Times-Picayune (July 5, 2011).
• “Imams, Dons and RICO,” American Thinker (March 16, 2011).
• “Do Planned Parenthood ‘Sting’ Videos Depict a Sex-Trafficking Crime?,” The Christian Science Monitor (February 7, 2011).
• “Organized Crime Cases Aren’t Easy, RICO Convictions Require More Proof From Prosecutor,” Detroit News (December 16, 2010).
• “Geico Lawsuits Alleged Medical Insurance Fraud,” News Day (September 29, 2010).
• “Class Action Traction?,” IGaming News (September 5, 2008).
• “Court Cites Discovery Costs in Dismissing RICO Case,” Inside Counsel (June 2008).
• “Firms Use RICO to Fight Union Tactics,” Wall Street Journal (December 10, 2007).
• “A Law of Unintended Consequences,” Conde Nast Portfolio (October 29, 2007).
• “PTC Fends Off Legal Heat from the Land of the Rising Sun,” Catalyst (August 13, 2007).
• “Vivendi Raises Stakes in Fight with Deutsche Telekom,” New York Times (March 2, 2007).
• “RICO, Illegal Aliens, and other Issues,” The George Putnam Show, Cable Radio Network (October 3, 2006).
• “High Court Reins In RICO: Anti-civil RICO forces get a win – but it’s not over,” National Law Journal (June 12, 2006).
• “Morpheus Parent Company Sues eBay Over Skype Technology,” Tech News World (May 24, 2006).
• “StreamCast Targets Skype, Kazaa for Alleged RICO Act Violations,” Tech News World (March 28, 2006).
• “RICO Act Takes Aim at Facility Near Pahrump; Founder Piazza Says Allegations Without Merit,” The Pahrump Valley Times (November 11, 2005).
• “Plaintiffs Try to Use RICO to Curb Illegal Immigration,” Corporate Legal Times (October 2005).
• “Ruling Hurts Tobacco Fraud Suit, Judge Says Government Can’t Strip $280 Billion from Cigarette Makers,” Richmond Times-Dispatch (February 5, 2005).
• “U.S. Department of Justice v. Big Tobacco,” Market Place Morning Report (nationally syndicated public radio news program) (Sept. 20, 2004).
• “Stakes High in Fraud Case Against Tobacco Industry,” Winston-Salem Journal (Sept. 19, 2004).
• “Suit Alleges Abuse Linked to Two Firms,” Boston Globe (June 10, 2004).
• “RICO First Used to Battle Mafia, Law Focuses On Pattern of Corruption,” New Jersey News (May 27, 2004).
• “Smokey’s Denied Betting License,” The Forum (May 19, 2004).
• “RICO Law, Powerful Tool in ’80s, Takes Back Seat in New Scandals,” Investor’s Business Daily (August 21, 2002).
• “The Commissioner’s Racket: David Moore won election with his business reputation. A RICO suit claims he’s little more that a loan shark,” Cleveland Scene (August 7, 2002).
• “Expos: A Lawsuit Against a Criminal Organization,” La Presse (June 7, 2002) (in French).
• “Lawsuit Accuses DMV of Systemic Corruption,” Citizen-Times (May 23, 2002).
• “The Long Arm of Abuse: Problem Priests Cross Not Just States But Oceans as Well,” U.S. News & World Report (May 6, 2002).
• “Experts Question Use of RICO Against Clergy,” Los Angeles Daily Journal (May 1, 2002).
• “Mitered in the Mob: What RICO Lawsuits Could Mean for the Catholic Church in the United States,” The National Review (March 28, 2002).
• “The PNP Qualifies as a Criminal Organization,” Primera Hora (March 25, 2002) (in Spanish).
• “Leonardo Associate may Face Federal Racketeering Charges,” Democrat & Chronicle (Dec. 29, 2001).
• “RICO and the Mafia,” Voice of America, National Public Radio (May 17, 2001).
• “The RICO Act,” The Lionel Show, Eyada.com Internet Talk Radio (Jan. 30, 2001).
• “An Interview with RICO Expert Attorney Jeff Grell,” AmericanMafia.com and GamblingMagazine.com (Oct. 2, 2000).
• “RICO Viewed as Cop Suit Sidelight,” The National Law Journal (Sept. 25, 2000).
• “The Use of RICO Against Big Tobacco and Others,” The Dark Star Show, WCCO Radio, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 11, 2000).