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Bob May resigns as Board Chair at HealthSouth
The Birmingham News reports here that Bob May, chair of the board at HealthSouth has resigned. May led the company during the trying times of Richard Scrushy’s, former CEO of HealthSouth trial. HealthSouth’s news release is here. (esp)
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Attorney-Client Privilege Issue Gaining Even More Support-Add the Sentencing Commission
Reported here was the growing support for re-examination of the attorney-client privilege issue and the government requests for waiver. Prior posts showed that a strong coalition was building including the addition of a resolution by the ABA. (see more here). As seen here, however, the government did not get the message – at least not…
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More Indictments Are Coming-KPMG
In court today, the nine individuals indicted in KPMG related prosecutions (see here) pleaded not guilty. Reported by Reuters here and Wall Street Jrl here, the lead prosecutor on the case then made a statement that there are likely to be twelve more individuals indicted soon. Certainly a statement like this should be enough to…
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Prosecutor Indicts Former Employee of Charitable Foundation
Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports an indictment of "[a] former finance director" of a local chapter of a well known foundation. See AJC here. What should you do when you are a reputable foundation and you find fraud or embezzlement in your midst? If you report it to the government they will…
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Accountability-Katrina
Is it criminal to make statements over the wires that are dishonest? If you happen to be a government official does it reach the level of being a scheme to defraud of "honest services"? Is the government a corporation and therefore subject to the collective knowledge of other officials within their midst; the US government…
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A Win for Former Gov. Rowland
Former Governor Rowland of Connecticut left office under a cloud after being sentenced to a year and a day in prison. His post-governor employment raised ethics issues at his sentencing and then again, when the state’s attorney’s office tried to have Rowland arrested for violating a criminal ethics prohibition of Connecticut. The Hartford Courant reports…
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Bush Moves Quickly to Replace Rehnquist
In contrast to the lack of action seen last week in New Orleans, Bush acts amazing quickly in announcing that he plans to move the nomination of Roberts into the Chief’s position. Robert’s stand on white collar issues is relatively unknown. See here to examine some of the key decisions by Rehnquist on white collar…
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Government Shows Off Corporate Fraud Statistics
The DOJ issued a press release here that provides an accounting of its successes in the corporate fraud arena. Since the institution of the Corporate Fraud Task Force in 2002 the government lists the following as its successes: "-Securing over 700 corporate fraud convictions; "-Convicting over 100 corporate CEOs and presidents with some type of…
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Germany Also Investigating DaimlerChrysler
Looks like the U.S. is not the only country looking at what is happening at DaimlerChrysler. Reported here and here were posts discussing possible bribes that might have a connection to the Mercedes division of DaimlerChrysler. The investigation was looking at possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. According to the Wall Street Jrl…
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LexisNexis to Provide Free Books to Displaced New Orleans Law Students LexisNexis’ Law School Publishing group has implemented a plan to respond to the needs of law school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. LexisNexis will provide free coursebooks to all displaced students enrolled in a law school class that requires a LexisNexis coursebook. LexisNexis will…
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