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Professor Bucy Receives Distinguished Faculty Award
Professor Pamela Bucy, one of the leading academics in the white collar crime field, has been awarded the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award by the Univeristy of Alabama, where she has been on the faculty of the School of Law since 1987. The Award is the highest honor for a scholar at the University, and recognizes…
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Survivor: Federal Prison — Richard Hatch Found Guilty of Tax Evasion
Richard Hatch, the first winner on the Survivor series, will now have to navigate a federal prison after a jury in Rhode Island convicted him on all 13 counts of tax evasion. Hatch was charged with failing to report the $1 million prize he received from Survivor along with over $300,000 from co-hosting a show…
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Government Tries to Give Too Good A Plea Deal
LATimes (AP) reports here that U.S. District Judge John Walter rejected a plea agreement involving former Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. Chief Executive Henry Yuen. The deal would have allowed Yuen to receive a minimal sentence in comparison to many of the recent white collar sentences issued throughout the United States, ("6 months of home detention,…
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Enron Executives Will Face a Hometown Jury
CNN (AP) reports here that Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron executives who face criminal charges in federal court, will be facing a hometown jury as their motion for a change of venue was denied. The case will proceed in Houston next week. (See also Mary Flood’s story in the Houston Chronicle here; and…
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Law of Primacy – Bill Campbell Trial
The AJC reports here of the opening witness at the Bill Campbell trial. The former Atlanta mayor was probably expecting this to be one the worst days of his trial as most advocates adhere to the law of primacy and recency and thus present their best evidence first and last. Surprisingly, it sounds like this…
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Plea in Credit Lyonnais Case
Debra Wong Yang, USA of the Central District of California issued a press release here regarding a plea of "[a] former chairman and chief executive officer of Credit Lyonnais." The plea was to "two felony charges of causing Credit Lyonnais to make false statements to the Federal Reserve Bank." (esp)
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Positions as White Collar Federal Prosecutors
Positions as White Collar Federal Prosecutors The Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is hiring experienced attorneys to serve as federal prosecutors. Trial attorneys in the Criminal Enforcement Sections handle or supervise criminal tax prosecutions in the federal district courts throughout the United States. Cases involve violations of criminal tax laws by taxpayers…
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Re-Sentencing Gets Same Sentence
Posted here was the Supreme Court’s denial of certiorari in the case of Betty Loren-Maltese, an appeal in part premised upon the vagueness of the "honest-services" clause used in prosecuting federal fraud. the case pertained to an alleged insurance scheme. This Monday, Loren-Maltese was re-sentenced. But according to the Chicago Tribune here the court rejected…
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Opening Statements – Bill Campbell Trial
Opening Statements in the trial of former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell were today. (See AJC here for details). In examining the newspaper reports on the opening statements, it was clearly a day for the defense who personalized their client for the jury and emphasized his role as a civil rights leader. The defense agenda looks…
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Japanese Authorities Move Quickly in White Collar Case
Reported here, just days ago, was the raid on Livedoor Co. as part of a securities investigation in Toyko. It has not taken the Japanese authorities long to now arrest someone. The Washington Post reports here and the New York Times here on the arrest of Livedoor’s President, Takafumi Horie. This case will be an…
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