Joe Palazzolo, BLT Blog, Stevens Six Lawyering Up — Big Time

John Council, National LJ, law.com, Three former U.S. attorneys launch new law firm with John Ashcroft

Amanda Bronstad, National LJ, Former GC of Peregrine Systems Sentenced to One Day in Custody, Six Months of Home Detention

DOJ Press Release, Illinois Refuse Container Repair Company Executives Indicted in Conspiracy to Defraud the City of Chicago

Robbie Brown, NYTimes, Mississippi Mayor Faces Re-Election and a Trial

Kate Phillips, NYTimes, Senate Approves Select Panel to Investigate Financial Crises

John Schwartz & Charlie Savage, NYTimes, Review of Governor’s Conviction Sought

Sarah N. Lynch, WSJ, Senators Seek To Boost SEC Enforcement Budget By $20M

Amir Efrati, WSJ, Post-Stevens, Other Defendants Trying to Join the Brady Bunch

Thomas Withers, Federal Criminal Defense Blog, Roy Black on the Castroneves Trial

Jennifer Liberto, CNN Money,Bailout cop busy on the beat -Neil Barofsky, who is overseeing the $700 billion TARP, says he has 20 criminal probes and calls for changes to prevent fraud.

DOJ Press Release,Subsidiaries of Swedish Company, Trelleborg AB,Agree to Plead Guilty and Pay $11 Million in Criminal Fines

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