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Upcoming Conferences & Events
Public Address on White Collar Crime by Preet Bharara, USA for the Southern District of NY, Nov. 19, 2009. Details here (esp)
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Post-Booker Sentencing Provides Greater Equity
Amir Efrati, WSJ, Looser Rules on Sentencing Stir Concerns About Equity – speaks about recent sentencing of white collar offenders. My response – Supreme Court decisions clearly allow for more judicial discretion in white collar sentencing - but is this a negative? Hardly not. It provides judges with the opportunity to examine the defendant on an
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Lawyers
Martha Neil, ABA Jrl Law News Now, 2 Lawyers Charged in Claimed $1.1M Client Embezzlement Scheme Vesselin Mitev, Law.com, New York Law Journal, Disbarred Attorney Pleads Guilty to Guardian Account Thefts Linda Sandler & Carlyn Kolker, Bloomberg, Ropes & Gray Lawyer Cutillo ‘Fueled’ $20 Million Insider Scheme ; DOJ Press Release, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 14 Defendants
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Sam Dolnick, NYTimes, Kerik Pleads Guilty in Corruption Case David Glovin & Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg, Ex-Galleon Worker, 13 Others Charged in Insider Scam DOJ Press Release, Former Pepsico Executive Arraigned in White Plains Federal Court on Embezzlement Charges DOJ Press Release, Former Professional Football Player Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Bankruptcy Fraud
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Cert Petition in Brown
A Petition for Cert has been filed in the Supreme Court in the case of Brown v. U.S., coming from the 5th Circuit. It's the Brown from the Merrill Lynch- Enron case. Brown I was dismissed by the court holding that "the alleged conduct is not a federal crime under the honest services theory of fraud
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Libby Nelson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Former Education Dept. Official to Plead Guilty Over Stock Holdings in Lender Ashby Jones, WSJ Blog, Kovachev, Dreier’s Wingman, Pleads Guilty to Fraud TIGTA, Woman Charged with Exceeding Authorized Access to a Computer Sherman & Sterling, FCPA Digest – Recent Trends and Patterns in the Enforcement of the Foreign
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Conrad Black – Reply Brief – Gotcha
Up to bat in the year of the mail fraud is Conrad Black. Set for oral argument on December 8, 2009, the briefs are now being filed. The most recent filing is the Defendant’s reply brief – Download Black-Reply One passage from page one says it all – The government contends that the majority rule unjustifiably
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Mary Flood, Houston Chronicle, Ex-Enron broadband figure given home confinement (esp)
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In the News & Around the Blogopshere
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Ticker, U. of Florida Engineering Professor Is Arrested on Fraud and Money- Laundering Charges Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, Corruption-fighter takes over S. Florida FBI office Michael Quint, Bloomberg, New York Ex-Senate Head Bruno’s Trial Focuses on $3 Million Sum (esp)
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Happy Birthday Blog – Five Years Old
Today the White Collar Crime Prof Blog Turns Five (5) Years Old and I would like to thank all the readers out there who have clicked this way. As you may imagine, blogging takes an enormous amount of time – and some days it can be difficult to find the minutes to post what needs
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