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Gonzalez – Now Tell Me Again – Why Did All These U.S. Attorneys Get Fired?
The press has not let up in its reporting and investigation of the firing of U.S. Attorneys across the United States. Law.com here discusses some of the latest comments. Also check out Washington Post (AP) here. It looks like the name Karl Rove is back in the news. (esp) Addendum – And Yahoo News…
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Omaha, Nebraska?
A DOJ Press Release discusses the recent indictment on 23 counts of alleged hackers who are based in India. The release states that "[a] federal grand jury in Omaha, Neb., has indicted three individuals on charges of conspiracy, fraud and aggravated identity theft stemming from a high-tech, international fraud scheme designed to hijack online brokerage…
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SEC Enforcement
Peter Lattman of the WSJ Blog has a link to SEC Enforcement Chief Linda Thomsen’s recent speech at Georgetown’s Corporate Counsel Institute. Lattman focuses on one aspect of this speech and seeks comments on this one point. Co-blogger Peter Henning and I provide our comments there. (esp)
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Libby Juror Writes Opinion Piece
Jurors often talk after a trial, but it is not often that a juror writes an opinion piece for the Washington Post. But perhaps it is not so strange considering that the juror is Denis Collins, a former reporter for the Washington Post. Collins is listed in the piece as being the author of a…
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KPMG Guest Posting – Part IV
Professor J. Kelly Strader (Southwestern) – Guest Blogging – KPMG PART IV – What lessons can we draw so far from the KPMG case? First, by any measure this is an enormously complex case. In pre-trial discovery, the government has produced over 11 million pages of documents, the transcripts of 335 depositions, and 195 income…
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NACDL Spring Meeting
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) Spring Meeting, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio April 25-28, 2007. The conference will have a separate white collar crime track. For details see here. (esp)
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FBI Financial Crimes Report
The SanDiego Union-Tribune reports on the latest statistics released by the FBI regarding mortgage fraud. According to the FBI Report there has been an enormous increase in mortgage fraud ("The number of FBI cases has grown steadily in recent years, from 436 in 2003 to 818 last year.") In the highlights of the Report it…
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Two Former CEOs Head to Trial
Two former CEOs will be headed to court in March to face charges related to their tenure at the top of large, publicly-traded companies. First, Lord Conrad Black, former CEO and controlling shareholder of newspaper publisher Hollinger International, Inc. — now the Sun-Times Media Group — faces charges along with three former company executives related…
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Was the Libby Conviction Fair or Unfair?
Professor Stuart Green, the L.B. Porterie Professor of Law at Louisiana State University, has published an interesting op-ed analyzing whether the conviction of I. Lewis Libby was fair. Professor Green is a leading cirminal law theorist, and his recent book, Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White Collar Crime, provides a systematic analysis…
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Charges Against Four Related to Collapse of Generic Drugmaker
Able Laboratories, Inc., which made generic drugs, collapsed in 2005 due to improper manufacturing procedures at its New Jersey facility, and now a former vice president and three former chemists at the company have been charged. The three chemists agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute adulterated and misbranded drugs, while Shashikant C Shah,…
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