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New Age Crime – Identity Theft
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California reports on a plea agreement reached in an identity theft case that has some unusual twists. The press release describes: "In the first prosecution of its kind in the nation, a well-known member of the ‘botnet underground’ was charged today with using ‘botnets’ – armies…
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You Must Be A Genius?
You must be a genius if you are reading and understanding this blog. Dan Solove over at Concurring Opinions has a site to a Blog Readibility Level (see here). So if you plug in the white collar crime blog site – it comes up as Genius Level. Now Professor Solove doesn’t point out this white…
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The Three Most Dangerous Buttons: Send, Forward, and Reply All
An interesting article from the Fulton County Daily Report (available on Law.com here) discusses the persistent problems e-mails present in cases. While the article largely focuses on employment discrimination cases, the point is equally applicable to white collar crime investigations in which e-mails continue to play such a prominent role. One e-mail discussed began, "This…
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70-Month Prison Term for Former CFO
The former CFO of Safety-Kleen Corp. received a 70-month prison term for his role in an accounting fraud at the company. According to a press release (here) issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the defendant "was indicted by a federal grand jury in December 2002 on charges relating to a scheme to manipulate Safety-Kleen’s financial…
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Help for Homeless Vets
The Race to the Bottom blog has an interesting post here on ways to provide help for homeless veterans. (ph)
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Siegelman Bounces Back to the District Court on Bail Pending Appeal
Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and his lawyers must feel a bit like a ping-pong ball at this point as his request for bail pending appeal of his conviction on corruption charges goes back before U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller for a third time. After turning down the original request for bail by Siegelman and…
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$16 Million Embezzlement from DC Property Tax Office
Embezzlement is bad enough, and when it involves the theft of tax money, the corruption overlay just spreads the harm even further. Two officials in the Washington, D.C. real property tax office were arrested for stealing approximately $16 million through bogus tax refunds that were directed to straw accounts maintained by three other defendants also…
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House Judiciary Committee Files Report Seeking Contempt for Miers and Bolten
The House Judiciary Committee moved a step closer to seeking contempt citations for former White House aides Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten when it filed a Report (here) with the House of Representatives. The two aides had been subpoenaed to testify and produce documents to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law related to the…
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Former NYC Police Commissioner Expected to Be Charged
The media is quoting unnamed government sources that former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is likely to be indicted by a federal grand jury on bribery and tax evasion charges, with an arraignment to occur on Friday, November 9. Kerik was briefly nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security in 2004 before…
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Cuomo Subpoenas Fannie and Freddie
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office issued subpoenas to government-sponsored mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requiring the production of documents related to mortgages issued by Washington Mutual, a large thrift, that included allegedly inflated home appraisals. The AG sued First American Corp. earlier for providing inflated appraisals in response to pressure…
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