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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Joe Palazzolo, BLT Blog, DOJ Apologizes for Misstatements in Stevens Case DOJ Press Release, Minnesota Man Arrested in Connection with Ponzi Scheme Hunton & Williams Press Release, Hunton & Williams LLP Promotes White Collar Criminal Defense Lawyer Patricai M. Sulzbach to Counsel Pamela A. Maclean, NLJ, law.com, Accounting Firms Take New Hits Over Madoff, Other
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Jrl, Honest Services Theory Used in Priest Abuse Cover-up Probe Dickinson Wright has created a internal investigations and corporate monitorship team chaired by Dennis Archer (former ABA Pres) and Michael Volkov (formerly w/ DOJ) NPR, Subject of Lesbian Rumor Returns to Justice Job Dechert’s White Collar & Securities Litigation Group, Second
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Upcoming Events
ABA, The Uncertainty Surrounding Honest Services Fraud, Teleconference, Feb. 11 ABA White Collar Crime Institute, San Francisco, March 4-6 Ethics – Politics- Corruption, Birmingham, Alabama, April 4-5 ABA, National Institute on the Internal Corporate Investigations and In-House Counsel, Washington, D.C., May 7-8, 2009 Second Annual Global Anti-Corruption Summit USA 2009, Washington, D.C., May 14-15 (esp)
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In the News and Around the Blogosphere
DOJ Press Release, Three Foreign Executives Indicted for Their Roles in LCD Price-Fixing Conspiracy – Two Executives from Taiwan and One Korean Executive Charged in Global Price-Fixing Scheme DOJ Press Release, Coal-fired Power Plant to Spend More Than $135 Million to Settle Clean Air Violations Tom Lieber, NYTimes, How to Avoid a Tom Daschle Tax
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Ninth Circuit Limits Corporate Executives From Challenging a Search
In a recent decision of the Ninth Circuit, U.S. v. SDI Future Health Inc. the court decided "whether corporate executives may challenge a police search of company premises not reserved for the executives’ exclusive use." As stated by the court, "While ‘[i]t has long been settled that one has standing to object to a search
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The New DOJ
Attorney General Eric Holder was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden. His remarks are telling that DOJ will be returned to being a non-political institution. In part he stated – "There shall be no place for political favoritism, no reason to be timid in enforcing the laws that protect our rights, our environment and
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11th Circuit Overturns Prior Mail Fraud Case
The 11th Circuit in an en banc opinion overruled its prior decision in United States v. Brown, 79 F.3d 1550 (11th Cir. 1996). The court in United States v. Svete held that "the district court did not err when it gave the pattern jury instruction for mail fraud." The remaining issues were remanded for the
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In the News & Around the Blogosphere
Natalie Neysa Alund & Duane Marsteller, BradentonHerald.com, Judge denies Nadel’s bond -Judge says former Sarasota hedge fund manager is too much of a flight risk; John Hielscher, HeraldTribune.com, Art Nadel is denied release DOJ Press Release, Former Shipping Executive Sentenced to 48 Months in Jail for His Role in Antitrust Conspiracy – Sentence Is Longest
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New Illinois Governor to Fight Corruption in Government
The new Illinois Governor, as his first executive order, has decided to take on the fight against corruption in government. He issued an Executive Order creating the Illinois Reform Commission that has several purposes including "to undertake a focused evaluation of both existing Illinois law and the operational practices of the State of Illinois from
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The Changing of the Guard
Marcia Coyle, NLJ, law.com, Assistant AG in DOJ’s antitrust division returns to Covington & Burling Lynne Marek, NLJ, law.com, Federal prosecutor on the team that convicted Conrad Black heads to Main Justice Marcia Coyle, NLJ, law.com, Senate Judiciary Committee GC moves to White House (esp)
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