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White Collar Crime Conference – Part VI
Stephanie Martz, White Collar Crime Project Director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), guest blogs a six part series on the recent White Collar Crime Track at the NACDL Cincinnati Conference: Session VI: The Use of Experts in White Collar Cases Barry Pollack presented Mike Mulligan, the Executive Director of Financial Corporate…
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Three Republicans Charged in Alaska
The Anchorage Daily News reports that three Republican legislators (one present and two former) have been charged with federal bribery, extortion, and conspiracy charges. One of the indictments also alleges a violation of the honest services clause. The Indictments allege the sale of votes on an issue concerning oil taxes. See also Wall Street Jrl…
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Virgin Island Official Sentenced
A press release of the DOJ reports that "[t]he former director of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources (DPNR) Division of Environmental Protection has been sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring to defraud the Virgin Islands government of approximately $1.4 million." (esp)
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White Collar Crime Conference – Part V
Stephanie Martz, White Collar Crime Project Director at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), guest blogs a six part series on the recent White Collar Crime Track at the NACDL Cincinnati Conference: Session V: "Litigating intent in white collar cases" This was a single-person presentation by Ed Garland, senior partner of Garland, Samuel…
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Newspaper Stays Silent to Assist Federal Probe
The Chicago Tribune reports on an undercover probe into what appears to be the Chicago real estate development world. But there is one fascinating aspect to the story. It seems the Tribune knew about this undercover operation, but decided to hold publication of the story at the request of the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. …
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Former IRS District Director Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud
WEBCPA reports that a former district director of the IRS plead guilty to tax fraud. The press release of the U.S. Attorney for Kansas notes that the defendant "admitted in his plea agreement that from 1997 though April 2002, the conspirators, through Renaissance, operated a scheme to defraud the government and individuals by marketing a…
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Health Care Fraud Conference
The American Bar Association 17th Annual National Institute on Health Care Fraud is scheduled for May 16-18 in New Orleans, LA. For details see here. Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General – Criminal Division, is scheduled to speak at lunch on May 17, 2007. (esp)
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Ex-Stripper Convicted of Fraud For Posing as a Psychologist
A former Boston-area stripper who entertained under the name Princess Cheyenne in the infamous Combat Zone in the 1980s was convicted in Massachusetts state court on fraud and larceny charges for treating patients for seven years at a clinic while purporting to be a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. According to a Boston Globe story…
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Prosecutors Seek to Hold Credit Suisse Banker Due to Flight Risk
Hafiz Naseem, a Credit Suisse investment banker accused of conspiracy and twenty-five counts of securities fraud for allegedly tipping a senior banking official at a Pakistani bank, may be forced to stay in jail for a while. According to a story on Sharewatch (here), federal prosecutors have asked that Naseem be detained because he is…
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What Has the Government Proven Against Lord Black?
From all reports, the trial of Lord Conrad Black and three other former executives of Hollinger International has turned into a tug-of-war over how incompetent the company’s audit committee really was. The government called all three members, former Ambassador Richard Burt, economist Marie-Josee Kravis, and former Illinois Governor and U.S. Attorney Jim Thompson. Each testified…
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