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Pennsylvania Senate Aides Charged with Obstruction for Trying to Wipe E-Mails
Two aides in the Pennsylvania Senate’s Democratic Computer Service’s unit have been indicted for trying to wipe out a number of e-mails sent and received by powerful state Senator Vince Fumo, who represents a district in South Philadelphia. Criminal complaints were filed against Mark Eister and Leonard Luchko charging conspiracy and obstruction of justice, and…
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Journalists Subpoenaed in the Bonds Perjury Investigation
A New York Times article (here) discusses a motion to quash grand jury subpoenas issued to the two San Francisco Chronicle journalists who broke the story about the grand jury testimony of San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds in the Balco (Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative) steroids investigation. The journalists are co-authors of the book Game…
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Jury Reaches Split Verdict in First Enron Broadband Retrial
The jury in the lesser-known Enron Broadband retrial reached a split verdict, convicting one defendant and acquitting the other on conspiracy, false accounting entry, and wire fraud charges. The first trial, which involved five executives of the Enron unit that was supposed to be the company’s foothold in the then-burgeoning dot-com world, ended in the…
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Is White Collar Crime Down?
The Syracuse Trac Reporting here on DOJ statistics reports this month that the number of white collar filings for the month is down over the previous month.(see here). And looking over five years "the data show[s] that the prosecutions are down 31.3 percent from levels reported in 2001." The report provides the offenses most often…
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Ohio Republican Fundraiser Pleads Guilty to Three Charges
As expected (see earlier post here), Ohio Republican fundraiser Tom Noe entered a guilty plea to three federal charges related to his contributions to the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004. Noe was indicted in 2005 on conspiracy, causing a false statement to be filed with the Federal Election Commission, and making illegal campaign contributions, and plead…
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Nine Plead Guilty to Padding Newspaper Circulation Figures
Nine former employees and contractors entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit mail fraud for reporting inflated circulation numbers to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) that were then used to set advertising rates for two newspapers. The newspapers involved are Newsday, which is primarily in Long Island, and Hoy, a Spanish-language paper distributed throughout…
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The Government’s “Filter Team”
According to the Washington Post here, DOJ is offering a "filter team" "to be made up of an FBI agent and two Justice Department lawyers not part of the investigation." The idea would be that Jefferson would go through these materials with the team and then he could assert to a court what items might…
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Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Jumps Into the Options-Timing Investigation
There are now four U.S. Attorney’s Offices looking into the timing of stock options granted to senior executives with the issuance of a grand jury subpoena from the District of Massachusetts to Sycamore Networks, Inc., a Chelmsford, Mass., company. According to an 8-K filed on May 30 (here): In addition to the previously reported investigation…
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Upcoming Conferences
Starting tomorrow in Miami is the Fifteenth National ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Sentencing Conference, also sponsored by the Federal Bar Association and the United States Sentencing Commission. For details, see here. On Thursday and Friday, Conglomerate Blog here will host an online symposium called, Conglomerate Forum: Enron. The symposium will "explore issues relating to the…
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Get Rid of the Lawyer
According to the Wall Street Journal here, McAfee has "fired its general counsel after an internal review of stock-options granting practices." And this isn’t the first person to go among several companies that are being scrutinized by the government over stock options. Are stock option improprieties going to be the new government target and priority…
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