Larry Neumeister & Tom Hayes, AJC (AP), Madoff to plead guilty, could face up to 150 years; Diana B. Henriques, NYTimes, Madoff Guilty Plea Expected; He Could Face Life in Prison; Robert Chew, Time, No Deal for Madoff, As Victims Prepare to Face Him in Court; Dealbook, NYTimes, Madoff Lawyer Responds to $177 Billion Forfeiture Demand

Brian Baxter, American Lawyer, Madoff Lawyers’ Alliance Pushes for International Financial Court

David Ingram, BLT Blog, What do Harvard and Bernie Madoff Have in Common?

Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, New DOJ Team in Stevens Case Makes Courtroom Debut

DOJ Press Release, Former Congressional Staffer Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Fraud

DOJ Press Release, Hitachi Displays Agrees to Plead Guilty and Pay $31 Million Fine for Participating in LCD Price-Fixing Conspiracy – Hitachi to Plead Guilty to Fixing Prices for LCD Panels Sold to Dell Inc.

FBI is Seeking Victims in the Stanford Financial Group Case here

Lynne Marek, NLJ, Judge rejects effort by ex-Illinois governor to bounce U.S. attorney from corruption case

Edith Honan (editing Alan Elsner) Reuters, Cyrus Vance Jr seeks Manhattan top prosecutor job

(esp)

Allan Lengel, Tickethewire.com, Uncertainty Abounds When it Comes to Appointments of U.S. Attorneys

John Pacenti, Daily Business Review, law.com, Black Market Peso Exchange at Issue in Kuehne Money-Laundering Case

DOJ Press Release, N.J. Industrial Pipes Supply Company and its Co-Owner Plead Guilty to Fraud at Two N.J. Superfund Sites

Doug Berman, Sentencing Law & Policy, "The Libby Letters: Reflections on Sentencing and Mercy in a Post-Booker World" (discussing Professor Scott Sundby’s new article on SSRN)

Jeralyn, TalkLeft, Ted Wells Discusses Scooter Libby’s Conviction

WSJ Blog, Former KB Home CEO Karatz Indicted on Backdating Charges

WSJ Blog, The UBS Tax Probe: Are Execs Next To Face Prosecution?; David Voreacos & Ryan Donmoyer, Bloomberg, UBS Says It Won’t Turn Over More Names in IRS Suit ; Evan Perez, Wall St Jrl, U.S. Pushes for Crackdown on Tax Havens

Forexpros.com, Reuters, Ex-Qwest CEO to report to Penn. prison

DOJ Press Release, Former Staff Member in U.S. House of Representatives Indicted on Corruption Charges

DOJ Press Release,  Former U.S. Tax Court Official Sentenced for Engaging in a Conspiracy to Commit Bribery

Michael Powell, NYTimes, Mortgage Fraud Case Poses Federal Quandary

AP, NYTimes, Ex-Official at NASA Is Indicted

Brian Wlash & Tiffany Joslyn, Real Clear Politics, Congress’s Hammer: Another Criminal Law

(esp)

Karen Gullo, Bloomberg, Bonds Steroids Trial Postponed as U.S. Appeals Evidence Ruling

DOJ Press Release, Stanford Financial Group Chief Investment Officer Charged with Obstruction

William Bender, Philly.com, Another Delco exec accused in swindle

Michael Powell, William K. Rashbaum & Banjamin Weiser, NYTimes, Morgenthau Heads for Door, Legacy Assured ; Karen Freideld, Bloomberg, Morgenthau, Manhattan Prosecutor Since 1961, Won’t Run Again

Sanjay Bhatt, Seattle Times, Mortgage-fraud defendant sentenced to seven years in prison

DOJ Press Release, N.J. Electrical Company Employee Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the Environmental Protection Agency at Superfund Site

DOJ Press Release, International Criminal Figure Pleads Guilty to $138 Million Fuel Tax Scheme After Nearly 13 Years as a Fugitive

DOJ Press Release, Miami Man Found Guilty in $13.5 Million International Money Laundering Scheme

Mike Anton, LATimes, About to do time? Meet your best pal

(esp)

Bob Mook, Denver Business Jrl, Dryer Sentenced to 132 years ("one of the harshest given for a white-collar crime in Denver District Court")

Henri E. Cauvin, Washington Post, More Muscle Against Mortgage Fraud – U.S., State, Local Agencies Form Task Force

Clifford Krauss, Julie Creswell & Charlie Savage, Fraud Case Shakes a Billionaire’s Caribbean Realm

Michael Braga, HeraldTribune.com, Lawyer passes buck in real estate fraud trial

R. Robin McDonald,  Fulton County Daily Report, law.com, Ex-Prosecutor Sued Over Suicide of Defendant’s Wife (w/ a hat tip to Bill Olis)

Adrian Walker, Boston Globe, Witness stops cooperating in sting case -Says FBI used him to topple Turner and Wilkerson

Matthew Goldstein, Business Week, Stanford: Signs That Should Have Worried Investors – The Stanford scandal also raises questions as to whether the SEC, which had been investigating the firm for three years, should have acted sooner 

Simon Kennedy, WSJ- Marketwatch, UBS slumps after U.S. seeks data on 52,000 clients – U.S. lawsuit seen as challenge to Swiss private banking model;

Karen Gallo, Bloomberg.com, Judge Orders Bonds’s Former Trainer to Appear for Hearing

Ieva M. Augustums & Stephen Bernard, law.com (ap), Bank of America CEO Subpoenaed Over Bonuses

(esp)

Shannon P. Duffy, The legal Intelligencer, law.com, Fumo: Bush Justice Dept. Was Out to Get Me

Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Energy Company, Former Employee & DOJ Spar on Appeal (this is definitely a case to follow as it is the DOJ saying they shouldn’t have to turn over the attorney-client material they received from a company as part of a deferred prosecution agreement) (w/ a hat tip to Tiffany Joslyn)

David Scheer & Alison Fitzgerald, Bloomberg, Stanford Attorney’s Withdrawal ‘Screams Fraud,” Spurred SEC

Clifford Krauss, Phillip L. Zweis & Julie Crewell, NYTimes, U.S. Accuses Texas Financial Firm of $8 Billion Fraud

Mike Scarcella, Legal Times, law.com, DOJ Prosecutors Replaced in Post-Trial Stevens Litigation

DOJ Press Release, Justice Department Receives $4 Billion in Grant Funding as a Result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -Funds for New Police Officers, Combating Violence Against Women and Fighting Internet Crimes Against Children Included in Act

Dan Slater, WSJ Blog, A Law Blog Q&A With Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey ; Joe Palazzolo, Legal Times, law.com, Mukasey to Join Debevoise & Plimpton

DOJ Press Release, Texas Man Sentenced to 41 Months in Prison for Selling Counterfeit Software Worth $1 Million on Web Sites

Jeff Coen, Chicago Tribune, Despite tearful plea, ex-Ald. Troutman gets 4 years

Steve Levin, Fraud With Peril, An Appeal to Remember, (discussing mail fraud appeal)

Ramon Bracamontes & Zahira Torres, elpasotimes.com – discussing possible plea in alleged public corruption case – here

(esp)

James Glanz, C.J. Chivers, & William Rashbaum, NYTimes, Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers

Lynnley Browning, NYTimes, U.S. Seeks New Powers to Fight Tax Evasion

The Crime Report, Nearly $4 Billion For Criminal Justice In Stimulus Package (w/ a hat tip to Ted Gest)

DOJ Press Release, Accounting Firm Attorney Pleads Guilty to Tax Fruad Related to Tax Shelters Claiming Over One Billion Dollars of Fraudulent Tax Losses (the plea calls for a plea to one count of conspiracy under 371 and count two of tax under 7201 – it calls for cooperation)

Tricia Bishop, Baltimore Sun, White-collar defendants are given some slack in reporting to federal prison (w/ a hat tip to Bill Olis)

Leo Strupczewski, Legal Intelligencer, law.com, Pa. Judges Plead Guilty in Cash-for-Kids Corruption Scandal

Pamela A. MacLean, NLJ, law.com, Next wave in Madoff mess: tax troubles

Mary Spicuzza, AssetForfeitureWatch.com, Contractor’s plea in bribery case
leads to forfeiture and prison time

(esp)

Grant McCool, Reuters, Indicted NY Lawyer Released on Bail into House Arrest

Hispanic Business.com, PR Wire, Sigue’s Commitment to Industry Standard Compliance Program Results in Dismissal of Deferred Prosecution Agreement

Reuters, Skilling to Seek Supreme Court Review of Sentence; Kristen Hays, Houston Chronicle, Court rejects bid to review ex-Enron CEO’s case

Andrea Estes, Boston Globe, Two Top Patrick Aides to Testify – Pair subpoenaed in Cognos probe

Cynthia Burton, Philadelphia Inquirer, Fishman recommended for U.S. attorney in N.J.

Joe Palazzolo, BLT Blog, Judge Holds Prosecutors in Contempt in Stevens Case

DOJ Press Release, Three Miami Physicians and Three Medical Workers Charged with $10 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

DOJ Press Release, APL Ltd. to Pay U.S. $26.3 Million to Resolve Fraud Allegations for Inflated Shipping Costs to Military in Iraq and Afghanistan

(esp)

Bob Keefe, AJC, Peanut Corp. president refuses to testify to Congress

Chisun Lee, Pro Publica, Senators Propose to Expand Financial Fraud Laws

Joe Palazzolo, BLT Blog, Feds Set Sights on ‘Gatekeepers’ in Fraud Investigations

Jordan Weissmann, BLT Blog, Tejada Pleads Guilty

Lynne Marek, NLJ, law.com, Ex-Illinois Governor Angling to Rehire Defense Attorney

Amanda Bronstad, NLJ, law.com, Court denies Texas billionaire’s request for documents in kickback case against Milberg

DOJ Press Release, Former Executive Indicted for His Role in Two Cathode Ray Tube Price-Fixing Conspiracies – Global Price-fixing Scheme Involves Tubes Used in Computer Monitors and Televisions

DOJ Press Release, Five Individuals Indicted for Devising and Participating in Stock Manipulation Scheme

Holbrook Mohr, law.com(AP), Scruggs Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud

Anne Sutton, law.com (AP), Alaska’s Attorney General Resigns in Wake of Troopergate Investigation

(esp)