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Former Defense Department Employee – Scheme to Defraud
The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a press release here telling of a Former Defense Department Employee being sentenced for a plea on a wire fraud charge, to "57 months imprisonment, approximately $704,000 restitution and 3 years supervised release for his participation in a fraud scheme to use a Department…
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Blogging Conference – This Friday at Harvard
Blogging Conference (Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship) is set for this coming Friday at Harvard. For details see here. The papers are available on SSRN here. Note Professor Doug Berman’s Comments on SSRN downloading here. Also a live streaming webcast of the conference will be here. There will be a readers-meet-bloggers event at…
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Upcoming NACDL White Collar Crime Day
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (here) is having a full day seminar in Philadelpha that will explore white collar crime. It is an incredible array of speakers and promises to be an informative program. The program description states: “The Practice of White Collar Criminal Defense,” will have seasoned white collar lawyers and professionals…
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How NOT to Respond to a Subpoena
A Third Circuit opinion discusses the application of the crime-fraud exception to the attorney-client privilege in an investigation that shows how a subpoena recipient should not respond unless the person wants to move into the "target" category in a hurry. In In re: Grand Jury Investigation (here), the court reviewed a challenge to the district…
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There Are No “Perry Mason” Moments in White Collar Crime Trials
Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling concluded almost two weeks on the witness stand, and next up will be his predecessor and successor, Ken Lay. The cross-examination produced no bombshell moments, and few if any concessions by Skilling regarding the themes brought out in his direct testimony. That is unsurprising because Skilling spent a significant amount…
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How Prosecutors Secure Corporate Cooperation
The University of Maryland held a Roundtable yesterday called the Criminalization of Corporate Law. (see here). David B. Anders, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York who handled the Ebbers and Quattrone cases was the keynote speaker. Larry Ribstein at Ideoblog here does a wonderful job of capturing some…
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Presidential Pardons to White Collar Offenders
President Bush announced the pardon of eleven individuals who were convicted of a variety of offenses, and as usual a substantial number of them fall into the white collar crime category (see U.S. Newswire story here). That is not a surprise because those convicted of such offenses are normally non-violent, which makes them more appealing…
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Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White-Collar Crime
Professor Stuart Green, the Louis B. Porterie Professor of Law at Louisiana State University, has published a new book entitled Lying, Cheating, and Stealing: A Moral Theory of White-Collar Crime with Oxford University Press. Professor Green is one of the leading criminal law theorists in the country, and he turns his attention to white collar…
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Former School District IT Director Indicted for Embezzling Federal Funds
A former school district official in South Carolina was indicted on twelve counts of mail and wire fraud related to embezzling funds from the federal government through the E-Rate program, which provides funds to disadvantaged school districts to pay for communications networks and internet access for students and teachers. Cynthia Ayer was technology director for…
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Giants Trainer Subpoenaed in Bonds Perjury Investigation
The federal grand jury investigating possible perjury by San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has subpoenaed the team’s head trainer to testify on April 27, in addition of Bonds’ personal physician. Bonds testified before a grand jury in 2003 about whether he used steroids from Balco (Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative), where his personal trainer worked. …
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