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No One is Above the Law
A DOJ Press Release reports that a "Special Agent of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)" was indicted for bank fraud, conspiracy, and false statements to a federally insured bank. He is alleged to have obtained loans for a computer company that was allegedly "created for the purpose of obtaining the three loans…
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Upcoming Seminars/Webcasts
ABA Teleconference and Live Audio Webcast – Cybercrime, Privacy, and Ethics – Domestic and International Implications, January 23, 2007. ALI-ABA Live Telephone and Audio Webcast Seminar – Attorney Client Privilege and Work Product Protection: What You and Your Clients Need to Know, January 26, 2007. NACDL 2007 Midwinter Conference, One of Four Tracks on the…
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Investigators Eye Options Grant to Steve Jobs
While the board of Apple Inc. (recently dropping "Computer" from its name to show its broad market coverage) may fully support CEO Steve Jobs despite his involvement in a questionable grant of options on 7.5 million shares, investigators from the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the SEC are scrutinizing his role. In December, Apple announced in…
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Did Too Many White Collar Cases Doom a U.S. Attorney?
A San Diego Union-Tribune story (here) reports that U.S. Attorney Carol Lam has been forced out because under her leadership the office in the Southern District of California did not put sufficient resources into pursuing alien smuggling and gun cases. When appointed in 2002, Lam said she would emphasize public corruption and white collar crime…
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Ground Rules Set for Libby’s Trial
The upcoming trial of I. Lewis Libby promises to be the biggest political trial since the impeachment proceeding of President Clinton, and U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton has set forth the ground rules for the proceeding in an order available below (courtesy of TalkLeft). Among the issues treated in the order are seating arrangements in…
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Judge Orders Further Briefing on Scrushy-Siegelman Motion
The seemingly never-ending battle over the bribery convictions of former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy and former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman may get another airing in U.S. District Court. After the district court denied their motion for a new trial based on juror misconduct that included unverified e-mails purportedly between two jurors, the defendants received anonymously…
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Catchy Headline
How’s this for an attention-grabbing headline: Ex-Prosecutor Is Accused of Running Escort Service. The article, from the New York Law Journal, discusses a former federal and state prosecutor’s involvement in the NY Confidential escort service, and among the other defendants is a second-year law student who clerked at the former prosecutor’s criminal defense firm. That…
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First Federal Charges Filed in H-P Pretexting Scandal
The first federal charges arising from Hewlett-Packard’s internal investigation that involved pretexting to obtain private telephone records were filed against Bryan Wagner, one of the private investigators used by the company. Wagner was also charged in 2005 along with four others, including former H-P chairwoman Patricia Dunn, by the California Attorney General’s office for violations…
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Former Comverse GC Settles Securities Fraud Case
Former Comverse Technology, Inc. general counsel William Sorin settled an SEC civil enforcement action for his role in back-dating options grants at the company. According to the SEC Litigation Release (here), Sorin will pay "$1,670,915.03 in disgorgement, of which $1,007,201.58 represents the ‘in-the-money’ benefit from exercises of backdated option grants. In addition, Sorin will pay…
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Abramoff’s Cooperation May Ensnare a Former Interior Department Official
Former superlobbyist Jack Abramoff’s cooperation in the government’s investigation of corruption in Washington D.C. seems to be continuing. There are media reports (see Rocky Mountain News story here) that Steven Griles, who was at one time a deputy to former Interior Department Secretary Gale Norton, is the now the target of an investigation of possible…
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