DOJ Press Release, Texas Businessman Sentenced to Prison for False Statements to Federally Insured Bank

DOJ Press Release, Portuguese Shipping Company and Two Employees Found Guilty of Enviromental Crimes

Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor, Guilty verdict in MySpace suicide case could chill Internet speech

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Bloomberg, Carlyn Kolker and David Voreacos, UBS Clients Go to IRS to Settle Swiss Account Taxes

Lynne Marek, National Law Journal, Larger Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Fines Ahead

John R. Wilke, Wall St Jrl, China Defends Price Fixing by Vitamin Makers

Adrian Walker, Boston Globe, FBI informant in bribe cases says more suspects are likely to surface

Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post, Hearing Set Into Letter by Witness in Stevens Trial

Derek Kravitz, Washington Post, Ex-Interior Official Charged With Taking Payments

David Markus, Southern District of Florida Blog, Ben Kuehne Motions Hearing before Judge Cooke

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Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, As Bush’s Term Ends, Some Big Names Seek Pardons

Law.com (AP), Christopher Sherman, Prosecutor Who Brought Indictment Against Vice President Seeks Judge’s Recusal

Richard Lloyd, The American Lawyer, A Dose of Reform for British Bribery Laws

Fox28 (AP), Ohio corruption probe puts lawyers to work

Jeff Jeffrey, BLT Blog, Former White House Aide Faces 90-Day Suspension of Law License

Bloomberg, President Bush Pardons 14 People, Commutes Sentences for Two 

Joanna Lin, LATimes, Terry Christensen sentenced to three years in Pellicano case

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FCPA Blog, Aibel Pleads Guilty; Wall Street Jrl, Marketwatch, Aibel Group Ltd. Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Agrees to Pay $4.2 Million in Criminal Fines

Corporate Crime Reporter, Former Enron Prosecutor Hueston Calls SEC Case Against Cuban Risky and Flimsy: Nicholas Rummell, Financial Week, Cuban charges not a slam dunk Viability of the SEC’s insider trading case against mouthy billionaire hinges on definition of insider.

Adam Nossiter, NYTimes, New Twist in Appeal of Ex-Alabama Governor

Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, Mukasey Returns to Work After ‘Fainting Spell’

Del Quentin Wilbur, Washington Post, Stevens Trial Witness Cries Foul -Ex-Veco Worker Says Prosecutors Improperly Steered Him

Michael Orey, Business Week, Lessons from Intel’s Trade-Secret Case – A low-level former employee made off with valuable information by retaining access to company computers after starting a job with a competitor

Ramon Bracamontes, El Paso Times, $2.1 billion in contracts involved in FBI inquiry

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There were approximately 350 people at the fundrasier for Ben Kuehne this past week.   As this blog stated here, people usually keep their distance when someone is charged with criminal activity.  The opposite is happening here.  This is yet another indication that DOJ needs to re-evaluate this case. For background see here and here.

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Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press, Chances of President Bush granting leniency to Conrad Black called infinitesimal

Doug Berman, Sentencing Law & Policy, Through the federal clemency looking glass with Holder

DOJ Press Release, Mississippi Lawyer Pleads Guilty for Failing to File Tax Returns on Income Exceeding $2.5 Million

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Carl Hulse, NYTimes, Democrats Gain as Stevens Loses Race

DOJ Press Release, Miami Physicians Sentenced to Prison for Their Roles in a $6.8 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme  (one received 37 months and the other 48 months) 

DOJ Press Release, Former Congressional Legislative Assistant Pleads Guilty to Failing to Report Thousands of Dollars in Illegal Gifts from Lobbyists

DOJ Press Release, I.R.S. Revenue Agent Arrested After being Indicted on Charges of Tax fraud and Obstructing an Investigation

Karen Sloan, National Law Journal, Former U.S. prosecutor lands at King & Spalding

Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel, Mission Critical -The British government dropped a bribery probe of BAE, but U.S. prosecutors picked it up. In the meantime, BAE’s GC cleaned up its act-enough to fend off an indictment?

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Chronicle of Higher Education, Cuomo Is Investigating College Ties to Student-Health Insurers

DOJ Press Release, D.C. Court of Appeals Clears Way for $200 Million Restitution Order in Tax Fraud Conviction

Chad Brey, CNN Money (Dow Jones), Lawyer Indicted In Tax-Shelter Fraud Scheme

Dan Slater, WSJ Blog, At Long Last, Enron Shareholders Set to Cash Out (w/ a hat tip to Bill Olis)

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Margy Love, Washington Post (Op-Ed), In Defense of Lame-Duck Pardons

DOJ Press Release, Two Charged with Illegal Trading with Iran

DOJ Press Release, Virginia Physicist Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Space Launch Data to China and Offering Bribes to Chinese Officials

Mike Scacella, BLT Blog, Sentencing Guidelines Disputed in D.C. Circuit Tax Fraud Case

DOJ Press Release, California Executive Agrees to Plead Guilty to Bid Rigging on Contracts with the U.S. Navy and Others

Amir Efrati, WSJ Blog, NJ USA Christie Resigns, SDNY’s Garcia to Announce Resignation Today

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Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Judge Rules Against White House in E-mail Dispute

Jon Swartz, USA Today, Hackers, phishers can’t get away with it like they used to

Stirling Newberry, Firedoglake, Who is Neil Barofsky, And Can We Trust Him to Watch the 700 Billion Collar Cookie Jar?

Matthew Barakat, Houston Chronicle (AP), Ex-Tech billionaire gets 9 years for stock fraud

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