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Mukasey Refuses to Proceed Against Bolten & Miers
Professor Peter Henning here, had raised the issue of whether AG Mukasay would issue a contempt citation against Bolten and Miers. And we now know the answer. Dan Eggen of the Washington Post writes, Mukasay Refuses to Prosecute Bush Aides. It seems that Attorney General Mukasey is taking the position that Bolten and Miers refusal
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Plea in Writer’s Guild Conspiracy Case
A press release of the U.S. Attorneys’ Office of the Central District of California tells that "[a] former assistant administrator of a Writers Guild fund and another woman were charged" "with conspiring to embezzle $17,228.61 by creating a bogus beneficiary of a union fund that paid union members for their works that were sold, distributed
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Scruggs Finally Gets a “W”
To say things have been going downhill for famed torts lawyer Dickie Scruggs over the past few months is quite an understatement. His legal entanglements began with a criminal contempt charge in the Northern District of Alabama for his handling of documents subject to a judicial order, and then got a whole lot worse with
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Conrad Black Off to Prison
Conrad Black was ordered to prison and denied bail pending appeal. After receiving a sentence of 6 1/2 years, and being given 12 weeks before having to report to prison (see here), Conrad Black will now enter a prison facility in Florida. The appellate court denied the newspaper leader bail pending appeal, although the Chicago
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This is News?
FBI Probing Whether Clemens Lied to Congress (AP) — What a shocker! House Ethics Committee Launches Investigation Into Conduct of Rep. Renzi (AP) — The 35-count indictment came out almost a week ago, so this surely ranks as a "rapid response." Pelosi Calls For Grand Jury Investigation Of Bolten, Miers (The Politico) — Talk about
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Two More Plead Guilty to Insider Trading
Two more defendants, one an officer at UBS, pleaded guilty to insider trading. According to a press release (here) issued by the USAO for the Southern District of New York: Between December 2001 and August 2006, GUTTENBERG repeatedly sold to TAVDY and another individual material,nonpublic information regarding upcoming upgrades and downgrades in UBS analysts’ securities
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Springing the Perjury Trap on Roger Clemens
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and ranking member Representative Tom Davis sent a letter to Attorney General Mukasey asking for an investigation of possible perjury by Roger Clemens about his use of steroids and HGH — and his attendance at a party in 1998 at Jose Canseco’s house. The letter (available
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With the Defense Motions Gone, Will There Be a Plea in the Scruggs Case?
Senior U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers rejected the remaining motions filed by Dickie Scruggs and his two co-defendants, son Zach and Sidney Backstrom, clearing the way for trial at the end of March on the charges related to an alleged attempted bribe by confederate Tim Balducci. With that goes the best chance Backstrom may have
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Hedge Fund Founder Gets 5 Years
A press release of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California states, "The founder of an investment firm that operated a hedge fund called the GLT Venture Fund was sentenced today to the statutory maximum penalty of 60 months in federal prison for lying to investors about his fraudulent operation that resulted
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Former AG Aschcroft Will Testify About His Monitorship
The controversy over the appointment of monitors under deferred prosecution agreements will be the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill, and former Attorney General John Ashcroft has agreed to testify at the proceeding. Ashcroft was appointed by Christopher Christie, the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, to serve as a monitor for
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