John Nadolenco

Jan 6, 2025 | mondaq.com | Kelly Kramer |John Nadolenco

In 2014, John Nadolenco, a managing partner at Mayer Brown'sLos Angeles office, received a startling dispatch from Brazil. The letter, sent from Brazil's attorney general, detailed aninternational dispute then being litigated in a Los Angeles statecourt: the illegal smuggling of a massive emerald, excavated in2001 from Brazil's Bahia region, to the United States. At first, Nadolenco assumed the letter was a "totalhoax" in the vein of a "Nigerian prince" emailphishing scam.