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DOJ Budget Request – Financial Fraud and Transnational Intellectual Property
DOJ's requested budget focuses a good bit on national security. But there is also money for continued activity on financial fraud. In a DOJ Press Release it states, "The FY 2012 budget also supports the continued efforts to crack down on financial fraud. From August through December 2010, the Attorney General’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force brought
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
DOJ Press Release, Office Manager of Los Angeles Medical Supply Business Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud Medicare of More Than $6 Million in Wheelchair Scheme DOJ Press Release, Securities Attorney and Five Others Indicted for Conspiracy, Wire and Mail Fraud in Stock Manipulation Scheme AP, Pa. judge guilty of racketeering in kickback case; Dave
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A Tale of Two Plea Agreements
Thursday's Wall Street Journal has a fascinating piece here by Steve Eder, Michael Rothfeld, and Jenny Strasburg on the friendship, between Donald Longueuil and Noah Freeman, that was shattered by the SDNY's insider trading probe. As the white collar world now knows, Freeman secretly recorded Longueuil. Longueuil's damaging admissions were captured, quoted in the criminal complaint against
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New Article – Sentencing Loss Guideline
Alan Ellis, John R. Steer, and Mark H. Allenbaugh, have a fascinating article titled "At a Loss for Justice - Federal Sentencing for Economic Offenses." They note how "more than 300 federal criminal statutes are covered by" USSG § 2B1.1. The article contains wonderful tables that compare the amount of loss to the sentence given. The
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Third Circuit Rules Losing Election Is A Hobbs Act Win
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court opinion here that dismissed conspiracy and attempt charges under section 1951 (Hobbs Act) finding "that acting 'under color of official right' is a required element of an extortion Hobbs Act offense, inchoate or substantive, when that offense does not involve threatened force, violence or fear." The court
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Editorial, Wash Post, Jack Johnson's indictment: Another blow to Prince George's David Hechler, Corporate Counsel, Ex-Sequenom In-House Counsel Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges FBI Press Release, Former Continental Airlines Sales Agent Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Participating in Fake Ticket Voucher Ponzi Scheme Diana B. Henriques, NYTimes, From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had
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New Article -“Prosecuting the Exonerated: Actual Innocence and the Double Jeopardy Clause”
Professor Jordan Barry (san Diego) has a new article here that he describes on SSRN as: "In certain circumstances, a prisoner who challenges her conviction must convince a court that she is actually innocent in order to get relief. Unfortunately, such judicial exonerations often fail to persuade prosecutors, who are generally free to retry prisoners who
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“Largest Ever Health Care Fraud Takedown”
A DOJ Press Release issued today titled, Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 111 Individuals for More Than $225 Million in False Billing and Expands Operations to Two Additional Cities tells that "[t]he Medicare Fraud Strike Force today charged 111 defendants in nine cities, including doctors, nurses, health care company owners and executives, and others, for their
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Grand Juries Are Not For Trial Preparation
In a case pending and set for trial in March in the Central District of California, with allegations of FCPA and money laundering violations, DOJ prosecutors are seeking to start another grand jury investigation of the defendants. Lawyers for the defendants cried foul and moved to quash five subpoenas calling for testimony today. As a
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Pepper Hamilton Enhances Corporate and Securities Practice with Addition of Ronald R. Jewell Mike,Scarcella, BLT Blog, Abramoff Associate Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison Richard L. Cassin, FCPA Blog, Playing Chicken With The Rule Of Law FBI Press Release, Former Chairman of Pennsylvania Investment Banking Firm Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Insider Trading Brian
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