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Schwarzenegger Terminating Identity Theft
The San Jose Mercury News here, notes that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has opened an office in California focused on fighting identity theft. The new office combines two existing offices – the Office of Privacy Protection and the State Security Office, with the new office being called "Information Security and Privacy Protection." This is an important…
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We Want Roger!
The next step in Roger Clemens’ offensive to clear his name of steroids and HGH use may well take him to Capitol Hill. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has issued an "invitation" (here) to Clemens and two of his former Yankee teammates, Andy Pettitte and Chuck Knoblauch, both of whom are mentioned in…
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What Kind of a Deal Could Bonds Get?
While the odds of this happening are probably no better than 10,000-1, there is always the possibility that home run king Barry Bonds might decide to work out a plea agreement to limit his potential punishment from the perjury and obstruction of justice charges he faces. The prosecution of former Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones…
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Last Minute Withdrawal From Election by Texas DA
An earlier post (here) discussed some problematic e-mails between Harris County (Texas) DA Charles Rosenthal and his administrative assistant– which were a bit steamy — that had been inadvertently disclosed during discovery in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the sheriffs department. The intrigue has now grown with Rosenthal’s withdrawal from the race for re-election…
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DOJ Opens a Criminal Investigation of the CIA’s Destruction of Interrogation Tapes
Washington, D.C. has been riveted on the CIA’s destruction of videotapes of interrogations of two detainees despite judicial directions that they be preserved. After a preliminary inquiry by the National Security Section of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Mukasey announced (here) that he directed the opening of a full-scale criminal investigation of the decision…
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New Sarbanes-Oxley Article
Lisa H. Nicholson (Louisville) has a new article posted on SSRN’s White Collar Crime list. It is titled, "Sarbanes-Oxley’s Purported Over-Criminalization of Corporate Offenders" and is printed in 2 Journal of Business & Technology Law 43 (2007). The abstract states: Abstract: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and its enhanced criminal penalties, which increase…
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DOJ Asks for Cert in Jefferson Office Search Case
The D.C. Circuit’s ruling on the legality of the FBI’s search of Representative William Jefferson’s House office has caused the Department of Justice more than a little consternation, and the Solicitor General’s Office filed a cert petition (available below) on December 19 to overturn the ruling. This issue is not so much that the government…
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Buffett and Upcoming General Re Related Trial
Karen Richardson’s Heard on the Street Column in the Wall Street Journal, "Reinsurance Trial May Ask: What Did Buffett Know" – see here. (esp)
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Happy New Year – Meet the Bloggers
We wish everyone a happy, healthy, and peaceful new year. We will be at the CALI Bloggers Booth at the AALS Conference on Thursday, January 3rd at 3 P.M. Stop by and say hello. (ph & esp)
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What’s Coming in 2008
The New Year will deliver a variety of interesting cases and issues in the white collar crime field, and here are a few developments (and predictions) that may be of interest in 2008 (in no particular order): Supreme Court decisions on whether to grant certiorari in the appeals of John and Timothy Rigas (Adelphia Communications)…
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