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Upcoming Conferences
ABA Presidential Showcase Program: Hot Topics and Recent Developments in Public Corruption Investigations & Government Ethics here NACDL – Defending White Collar Crimes – October 1-2, NY – here FCPA – November 17-18, 2009 – Washington, D.C. here ABA - Criminal Justice Section – White Collar Crime Committee – Town Hall Meeting on the State of
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Dionne Searcy & Amir Efrati, WSJ Blog, Sins and Admission: Getting Into the Top Prisons – The Bureau of Prisons Didn't Grant Madoff His First Choice, and Rebuffed a Judge's Recommendation. Why? (w/ a hat tip to Mark Johnson) DOJ Press Release, Ship Captain and Chief Officer Plead Guilty to Crimes Related to Pollution from Cargo
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Kevin Johnson, USA Today, Prison Coaches Charge Up to $20K to Prep White-Collar Perps DOJ Press Release, Endoscopic Technologies to Pay U.S. $1.4 Million to Resolve Allegations of Medicare Fraud Mark Douglas & Michael Sasso, TBO.com, Agents raid St. Pete contractor that worked on shuttle (jackets agents were wearing read "NASA OIG" which implies that the Office
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White Collar Crime Blog Again Makes Top 20
The rankings are out and this blog was ranked 18th for visitors and 18th for page views on the 2009 Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings. The rankings process and time period covered are described on Paul Caron's Tax Prof Blog here. Your readership is appreciated, so thank you for clicking this way. (esp) (blogging from The Hague, Netherlands)
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Fumo Sentenced
After a 5 1/2 month trial (that had to have been a significant punishment in itself), Former State Senator (Pa.) Vincent J. Fumo was convicted. An issue previously discussed relative to this trial pertained to posting on Facebook and Twitter during trial (see here). He has now been sentenced to 55 months with the judge setting the loss figure
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Dreier – Twenty Years
Benjamin Weiser, NYTimes, Lawyer Gets 20 Years in $700 Million Fraud (esp)(blogging from the Hague, Netherlands)
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Two DOJ Offices Moving on White Collar Cases
From opposite sides of the U.S., two U.S. Attorneys Offices are actively involved in white collar cases. Obviously many other offices have white collar investigations, prosecutions, guilty pleas, and sentencings – but for the past week these two offices have been in the news a good bit. In the Southern District of New York a press release
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The Numbers Confirm that Sotomayor is “Tough on White Collar Crime”
I previously blogged on my review of 100 white collar related cases of Judge Sotomayor here. TRAC reporting now confirms empirically what I found. See here. They conclude that "A case-by-case examination of the sentences imposed by Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her six years as a trial judge in the Southern District of New York has determined
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Not a Good Day for Blagojevich
John Harris, who served as Blagojevich's chief of staff, entered into a plea agreement that includes cooperation. The agreement states: Defendant agrees he will fully and truthfully cooperate in any matter in which he is called upon to cooperate by a representative of the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois. This cooperation
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Carol Leonnig, Washington Post, Bribery Plea in Probe of Firm With Murtha Ties (w/ a hat tip to Mark Johnson) DOJ Press Release, Former State Department Employee Sentenced for Illegally Accessing Confidential Passport Files Matt Egan, Fox Business, Report: SEC Probing Apple's Disclosures on Steve Jobs David Laufman, Life Science Leader, Strategies For Avoiding FCPA Liability
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