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Is the Thompson Memo Unconstitutional?
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s ruling on KPMG (post discussing here) certainly raises some interesting questions. As noted by two comments to that post and an email received, we need to look further at what the judge stated. The Wall Street Journal’s Review and Outlook piece here, talks about another aspect of what the judge stated,…
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Did A Gossip Columnist Try to Extort Money?
Yahoo News (Reuters) reports here on an investigation of a gossip columnist at a NY newspaper who is alleged to have tried to extort money from an individual in return for not printing a story. Clearly such reprehensible form of conduct would be ethically improper. And if this extortion did occur then there might be…
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Former Salvation Army Financial Manager Charged with Embezzlement
The late Jim Croce sang about Bad, Bad Leroy Brown from the south side of Chicago, and there is a Leroy Brown in New Jersey who has been charged with stealing over $385,000 from the Salvation Army from 1995 to 2002 while he worked for the organization as a financial manager. A press release (here)…
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Hollinger Will Pay a Substantial Portion of Lord Black’s Attorney’s Fees
When Lord Conrad Black was forced out as CEO and controlling shareholder of Hollinger International Inc. in 2004 for financial misconduct, there was — needless to say — a flurry of lawsuits and governmental investigations. The result of the company’s determination that Black had siphoned company assets was that the SEC filed civil securities fraud…
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Former Texas Tech Students Sentenced for Defrauding Student Loan Program
Whatever happened to harmless student fun like stealing your biggest rival’s mascot or engaging in a little "harmless" fraternity hazing? A group of former students at Texas Tech were sentenced for their roles in a scheme to qualify students for Pell Grants that they were not eligible to receive, and then split the money. The…
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Proving Libby’s Intent
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s filing in response to I. Lewis Libby’s most recent discovery request contains information indicating that the Vice President authorized Libby to reveal information from a classified government report to New York Times reporter Judith Miller in July 2003. The revelation that the President had the Vice President direct a member of…
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Indictment of Class Action Attorneys May Come Soon
The Recorder reports (here on Law.Com) that two named partners at class action law firm Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman, David Bershad and Steven Schulman, will be indicted shortly for fraud related to secret payments to representative plaintiffs in class actions. Seymour Lazar, who served as the named plaintiff in a number of cases litigated…
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Vinson & Elkins Attorney’s Testimony at Enron Trial
Vinson & Elkins attorney Max Hendrick testified for the defense at the Enron conspiracy trial about his work investigating the issues raised by Sherron Watkins in her famous memo to Ken Lay discussing accounting problems at the company. Hendrick’s "investigation" was quite limited (see the law firm’s letter to Enron here), and V&E’s report that…
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The KPMG Tax Shelter Mega-Trial
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the flood of motions filed by the 18 defendants charged with conspiracy arising from the sale of tax shelter products by KPMG, including requests for separate trials. The judge found that the same core of evidence would be applicable to all defendants, 16 of whom are former KPMG partners,…
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Dentist Charged in Mortgage Fraud Scheme
There is nothing worse than going to the dentist, but how often does the dentist moonlight by engaging in mortgage fraud. A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey (here) describes a scheme by Terrance Stradford, a Staten Island dentist, and a friend, Christina Hachadoorian, to mortgage the same…
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