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In the News and Around the Blogosphere
Shannon P. Duffy, Legal Intelligencer, law.com, Federal Jury Finds Former Pa. State Sen. Vincent Fumo Guilty on All Counts Chronicle of Higher Education, Georgia Tech Employee Gets 10-Year Sentence for $175,000 Spending Spree (subscription required) DOJ Press Release, General Maritime Management (Portugal) Fined $1 Million for Enviromental Crimes DOJ Press Release, Former Alaska State Representative
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How Could This Have Happened: Professor Coffee Offers An Opinion
Check out Professor John Coffee’s superb article, The Lessons of Madoff in the National Law Jrl here. (esp)
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Posting on Facebook and Twitter During a Trial
With a fast-growing Internet world with social networks, this was bound to eventually be an issue. See Maryclaire Dale (AP), In York, Fumo: Juror discussing case on Facebook, Twitter; Emilie Lounsberry, Philly.com, Fumo lawyers target juror, deliberations (esp)
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Hitachi Displays Ltd. – The Information
It was mentioned here, that a DOJ Press Release reported that Hitachi Displays Ltd would be entering a guilty plea to "fixing prices for LCD panels sold to Dell, Inc." The plea would include a 31 million dollar fine. Business Week offers this "snapshot" of the company here. The DOJ posted the Information in the
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United States v. W.R. Grace
Hats off to the School of Law and School of Journalism at University of Montana for the blog they created to follow the Grace case. The case is in the U.S. District Court in Montana. Check it out here. (esp)
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In the News and Around the Blogosphere
Eric Torbenson & Brendan Case, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Attorney charged with conspiracy here; DOJ Press Release, Attorney Indicted for Conspiracy and Wire Fraud in Stock Registration and Manipulation Scheme Thomas Zambito & Corky Siemaszko, Daily News, What was Ponzi con Bernie Madoff worth? $826 million, claim court papers filed by lawyer Ira Sorkin Andy
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Conferences
ALI/ABA Confidentiality and Attorney-Client Communications, March 31 Webcast here ABA, Recognizing and Defending Against Foreign Corrupt practices Act Violations, April 2 Webcast here ABA, Ethics, Politics, and Public Corruption, April 3 Birmingham, Alabama here 2nd Annual Global Anti-Corruption Summit USA 2009, May 14-15, Washington, D.C. here. (esp)
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Madoff- Raising the Bail Issue
The trial court sent Bernie Madoff to jail upon his entering of a guilty plea (see here). He has now appealed to a higher court for his release pending his sentencing. See Chad Bray, WSJ, Madoff Appeals Jailing; Thomas Zambito & Corky Siemaszko, Daily News, Bernard Madoff’s lawyer Ira Sorkin appeals to spring Bernie from
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Nacchio: A New Direction
The Tenth Circuit recently reinstated the convictions of former CEO of Qwest Communications International, Inc, Nacchio. (see here) But the decision was a close one at 5-4. Nacchio is now presenting new evidence and asking the court to consider this new evidence and also to provide bail pending the resolution of this matter. What is
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Madoff Pleads
There were no surprises in Bernie Madoff entering a guilty plea today as the indications of this had been broadcast for several days. (see here and here) To read a transcript of the proceedings see here. He admits his guilt and explains how he concealed his fraud. He also states that "other business [his] firm
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