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It’s Raining Grand Jury Subpoenas in the Options-Timing Probe
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York may now be in the lead in issuing grand jury subpoenas to companies for documents related to the timing of stock options granted to senior executive. RSA Security Inc. issued a press release (here) on June 13 stating that the company "announced that it…
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International Economic Crime Conference
Upcoming Conference- TWENTY-FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ECONOMIC CRIME SUNDAY 3rd – SUNDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 2006 JESUS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Price of Crime The Identification and Control of Risks Associated with the Enterprise of Crime and Terror For details see here – Download 2006_symposium_programme_may.pdf (esp)
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More White Collar Crime Stats
Yet another month of decreasing white collar crime prosecutions? This time the Syracuse Trac Reporting here says that the DOJ shows a -10.6 drop in white collar crime prosecutions from last month, and the percent change from five years ago, if one includes magistrate court is -43.3 %. So much for statistics. See prior posts…
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State Conflicts as a Federal Crime
In a "Not Precedential" ruling of the Third Circuit, the court reinstated a mail fraud indictment that had been dismissed by the district court. The case was brought by the government under the "honest services" provision of mail fraud (18 USC 1346). The court holds here that a failure to disclose a conflict of interest…
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Former Mayor Bill Campbell Gets 30 Months
Former Mayor Bill Campbell received a sentence of thirty (30) months on his conviction of tax charges. (see AP Newsday here) He had been found not guilty by a jury of charges of racketeering and bribery. See here. The Atlanta Jrl Constitution here reports that the court went beyond the tax charges in sentencing and…
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Behind the Jury Curtain – Enron Broadband
What really happened in the jury room of the Enron Broadband trial? Tom Kirkendall’s Houston Clear Thinkers here and the Houston Chronicle here describe some of the happenings in the jury room. The Motion for a New Trial here is an amazing read. Tom Kirkendall lists on his blog the many things that may seriously…
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Rove Dodges an Indictment
An AP story (here) reports that Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald informed Presidential aide Karl Rove that he would not be indicted in connection with his statements in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity as a CIA agent. Rove’s attorney, Robert Luskin, stated that Fitzgerald informed him in the evening on June 12…
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Former Executive Convicted of Securities and Wire Fraud
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the D. Massachusetts reports in a press release here that a former executive of North Andover Corporation was convicted of securities and wire fraud, following a nine day trial. The press release states that: "The evidence established that GOODWIN [former Senior Vice President of worldwide sales at Interspeed, Inc.] falsely…
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Health Care: Who Pays the Cost?
A press release of the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Northern District of Georgia, here, demonstrates that health care investigations are still being pursued by the government. Coming from a "whistleblower" lawsuit under the False Claims Act, Peidmont Hospital of Atlanta "agreed to pay over $3 million to resolve allegations." The press release reports that…
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Government Corruption
A government corruption case in Wisconsin ended with a guilty finding for a state official who was alleged to have steered a contract to a travel agency that had contributed political funds to Gov. Jim Doyle. (see Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Online AP here). According to this news report, the accused took the witness stand and…
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