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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Mike Scarcella, BLT Blog, Roger Clemens' Lawyers See Document Fight on Horizon Liam Moloney & Salvatore Pizzo, WSJ, Parmalat Founder Receives 18-Year Prison Sentence Pater Lattman, NYTimes Dealbook, Ex-Goldman Programmer Found Guilty of Code Theft Jenna Greene, BLT Blog, SEC Settles Vitesse Stock Option Backdating Case Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ Blog, Lanny Breuer Hails US Anti-Corruption
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Ninth Circuit Sentencing Case – Denial of Rehearing En Banc
The Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Edwards had an unusual set of events. It seems a judge sua sponte asked the court to rehear a case en banc. The court then voted not to take the matter up, and a stinging dissent was authored by four judges – dissenting from the denial of the rehearing
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Thanks For Your Patience
Thanks for your patience with the slow blogging of these past couple of months. I am going through my emails and will be posting in the next couple of weeks the many items that you have been kind enough to send. Please continue to send me your news. (esp)
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Articles
Jonathan C. Cross, law.com, RICO's Post-'Morrison' Reach: Will Other Courts Adopt the 2nd Circuit's Approach? Margaret Colgate Love, Wash Post, Time to pardon people as well as turkeys, Mr. President (esp)
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
DOJ Press Release, FBI Special Agent Darin Lee McAllister Found Guilty of Federal Wire and Bankruptcy Fraud Charges SNR Denton Press Release, Michelle J. Shapiro Joins SNR Denton’s White Collar Team DOJ Press Release, Former Employee of a Financial Institution Subsidiary Arrested on Criminal Complaint for Role in Fraud Scheme Involving Municipal Bonds DOJ Press
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Pepper On Deck
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument Monday in Pepper v. United States, out of the Eighth Circuit. The questions presented are: 1) whether a court of appeals can categorically prevent a sentencing court from considering a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation; and 2) whether, when a new judge is assigned to re-sentence the defendant after remand, the
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Will WikiLeaks Spur the Government to More Aggressively Promote Dodd-Frank’s Bounty Provisions?
Guest Blogger – Victor Vital Much has been written about the new bounty-provisions in the Dodd-Frank bill passed this summer. SEC-regulated companies are bracing themselves for an uptick in enforcement actions stemming from whistle-blowers. Also legal commentators and the compliance community are very concerned about the new bounty provisions that they fear will incentivize whistle-blowers
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Goldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle of Higher Education, Criminal Trial of Former Dean Could Be a Preview of Fraud Case Against Kaplan Harvey Silverglate, Forbes, When ‘Honest Services’ Prosecution Turns into Persecution DOJ Press Release, Former Employee of a Financial Institution Subsidiary Pleads Guilty for Role in Bid-rigging and Fraud Conspiracies Involving Municipal Bonds DOJ Press Release,
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
FBI Press Release, Former CEO of Comverse Technology, Inc. Settles Civil Case with U.S. Attorney's Office and Forfeits Over $46 Million Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel, law.com, Ex-Gen Re Lawyer Argues on Appeal That General Counsel Wasn't Allowed to Testify Jonathan Saltzman, Globe -Boston.com, Wilkerson sentencing on federal corruption charges set for Dec. 22 James C.
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Richard A. Serrano, LA Times, Extensive insider trading investigation drawing to close, official says R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle, Testimony ends in DeLay's money-laundering trial FBI Press Release, Former Societe Generale Trader Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Stealing High-Frequency Trading System Code FBI Press Release, Former New York Con Edison Manager Pleads Guilty to
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