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In the News
DOJ Hiring Practices – Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program Plea in Options Backdating – "Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder and former chief technical officer of Broadcom, Inc., pleaded guilty . . . to making a false statement in testimony before the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to
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Day One of the National Institute on Cyberlaw
Guest Blogger – Whitney Scott – A 3L at Stetson University College of Law – I attended the first day of the ABA sponsored 2nd Annual National Institute on Cyberlaw today. The two hour panel discussion was a general overview of cyberlaw essentials. The panel discussed some hot issues such as the difference between identity
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Reversals of Federal Convictions
Alex Bunin, Federal Public Defender from the Northern District of New York has produced an incredible document, a document he has been updating since 1995, that provides by categories reversals of federal convictions from U.S. Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court. Some white collar cases are included, such as cases with charges
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Former US Attorneys Push for Passage of Attorney-Client Privilege Legislation
A letter signed by 33 former United States Attorneys was sent to Senator Leahy, chair of the Judiciary Committee, asking that he support S. 186, the Attorney-Client Privilege Protection Act. The letter states that "[t]his bill is crucial to stemming the Department of Justice’s widespread practices and policies that pressure businesses to waive the attorney-client
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A Hot Summer for a Cincinnati Icemaker
A DOJ Press Release reports on the Cincinnati packaged-ice manufacturer, The Home City Ice Company (Home City Ice), pleading guilty to a one-count information under the Sherman Act, charging the company with conspiracy. (The Plea Agreement). The press release states that "Home City Ice and co-conspirators carried out the conspiracy by: Participating in meetings and
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In the News and Blogosphere
Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, Justice Dept. Grant Overseer Subject of Criminal Probe John Fritze, Gus G. Sentementes and Lynn Anderson, Baltimore Sun, State raids mayor’s home DOJ Press Release – "A former New York City engineer pleaded guilty . . . to participating in a conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with a project to
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Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Conviction & Martha Stewart
Sometimes the collateral consequences of a conviction make no sense. Martha Stewart could not possibly hurt anyone or be a harm to the UK, yet the technicality of the conviction initially denied her receiving a visa. See CNN, Martha Stewart Denied UK Visa But Hopes to Visit Soon. (esp) Addendum – There is certainly a
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2008 Report – Corporate Fraud Task Force
The 2008 Report to the President of the Corporate Fraud Task Force is now available (see here). And reading the many prosecutions with guilty pleas and convictions after trial, one would certainly think that this task force has been an incredible success. After all the Report says that the DOJ "has obtained nearly 1,300 corporate
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Do We Need A Scoreboard to Keep Track of Prosecutions
Amir Efrati and Tom McGinty of the New York Times have a must-read article titled, Youz Indictin’ Who? A Rivalry Grows For Stock Cops in Brooklyn, Manhattan. Although it is good to see that two offices in New York are going to be strong in bringing white collar cases, it is pretty frightening to think
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Operation Malicious Mortgage
U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout the United States are going to be busy prosecuting mortgage fraud cases in the next few months as Operation Malicious Mortgage brought numerous arrests this past week. An FBI Press Release noted that: "Operation Malicious Mortgage resulted in 144 mortgage fraud cases in which 406 defendants were charged. Yesterday, 60 arrests
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