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Central States Law School Association Conference
Central States Law School Association and the Journal of Law in Society Joint Conference October 26-27, 2007 The Central States Law School Association and the Journal of Law in Society announce a joint conference at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, Michigan on October 26-27, 2007. The conference will consist of a Friday afternoon…
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If Vick Pleads Guilty
You can’t turn on SportsCenter these days without seeing a federal courthouse or phalanx of attorneys toting heavy litigation bags. The Michael Vick dog-fighting prosecution seems to be close to resolution, with his legal team helping him to decide whether to accept the government’s plea offer. According to a report on ESPN.com (here), the government’s…
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Leahy to Bush: Can We Talk
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has tried a new tactic in an attempt to obtain information from the White House about the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006: a request for a sit-down meeting with the President, just the two of them — with various aides hovering nearby, no doubt. Leahy sent a…
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Siemens Bribery Probe Keeps Expanding
The probe into overseas bribery at Siemens A.G. seems to grow with each quarterly disclosure. What started out as an inquiry by Italian and Swiss authorities into secret payments now seems to be engulfing a significant portion of the far-flung German company’s foreign operations — which is saying a lot because it operates in over…
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Who is Worse: The Bribe Payer or the Recipient?
With the recent spate of bribery cases involving military officials accepting money for steering Iraqi contracts to corporations, the Grits For Breakfast blog took a poll (here) of readers asking, among other things, who is more culpable: the corporation paying a bribe to obtain business, or a government official accepting one. The results: Slightly more…
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Prosecutors Seek $16,925,000 Forfeiture From Lord Black
Federal prosecutors filed a brief (available below) in the U.S. District Court seeking a forfeiture order for $16,925,000 against Lord Conrad Black and two co-defendants, Peter Atkinson and Jack Boultbee, arising from their fraud convictions related to diverting funds from Hollinger International. While the jury acquitted the defendants on most of the charges, they were…
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Washington Legal Foundation Program
Washington Legal Foundation Program – "Over the past year, criminal defense lawyers, civil liberties advocates, and business associations have been seeking greater protection for white collar defendants’ rights and privileges in the face of increased corporate criminalization. A series of federal court rulings on the constitutional rights of former KPMG executives have helped to fuel…
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NBA Referee to Plead Guilty to Gambling Charges
Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy is set to plead guilty in Brooklyn to gambling charges, according to an AP story (here). Word first leaked about a federal investigation of the referee in June 2007, and the case involves both wagering by Donaghy on games he called and leaking information that would be useful to other…
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Public Corruption in El Paso?
elpasotimes.com reports on an ongoing public corruption case in El Paso. As with so many public corruption cases, the investigations can take several years. Once an individual starts cooperating there is usually more ability for the government to prosecute others. Co-blogger Peter Henning notes in this article that "[e]lected officials either plead early or fight…
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Bid-Rigging Indictment
A press release of the DOJ reports on a recent Indictment "charging a commercial refrigeration company and its co-owner with participating in a conspiracy to rig bids on contracts for the installation of commercial refrigeration equipment in Safeway Inc. grocery stores in the Phoenix metropolitan area." The alleged Sherman Act violation alleges that the former…
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