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Rosen Trial Update
Discussed here were the government problems in the Rosen case, a case involving an individual who served as a fundraiser for "Senator’s A." The latest events in the trial may present even more problems for the government’s case. According to CNN here, David Rosen testified "that he knew nothing about cost overruns for a lavish…
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Scrushy Trial Confusion – Not Surprising
Not surprisingly, the jurors deliberating in the trial of former CEO of HealthSouth, Richard Scrushy, are having difficulty reaching a verdict. According to the Birmingham News here and Wall Street Journal here, the jurors in the case have sent a second note to the judge saying they are having difficulty reaching a consensus and asking…
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Next Step Taken to Extradite Three British Bankers to Face Enron Fraud Charges
The British Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, approved the extradition of David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby to the United States to face wire fraud charges in Houston related to transactions with an Enron-related SPE organized by Andy Fastow and Michael Kopper. The three were officers of Greenwich NatWest, a division of NatWest Bank, which…
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Sometimes a judicial opinion catches your eye, and this one did, although it’s at best only tangentially a white collar crime case (well, there’s a property sale, so that brings it under our giant tent). The Ninth Circuit has a rather wry recitation of the facts of a criminal prosecution for interfering in the sale…
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Former Wal-Mart Executive Files Whistleblower Complaint Over Termination
Jared Bowen, a former vice-president at Wal-Mart, has filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Labor over his termination by the company in late March, which he claims was in retaliation for disclosing expense-account abuses by former executive and board member Thomas Coughlin. The company reported to the U.S. Attorney in March that Coughlin…
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An Independent Counsel Probe Mimics the Energizer Bunny
Who among us really misses the independent counsel statute? An earlier post (here) discussed a D.C. Circuit case involving a former lower-level administrator at the White House who got caught up in the travel office investigation, a minor sideshow in the Whitewater investigation, and sought attorneys fees under the statute. At least that investigation has…
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Boies at the Center of Two Cases
David Boies, one of the best known litigators in the country (Bill Gates and Gen. William Westmoreland are among his former opponents), is involved in two high-profile corporate crime cases, but in different roles. In the prosecution in New York Supreme Court of former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Schwartz, Boies testified on…
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Corruption Inquiry Into Spokane Mayor Will Be Conducted By U.S. Attorney for Western District of Washigton
A brief announcement (here) from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington states that the office will conduct the investigation of controversial Spokane Mayor Jim West after the Eastern District USAO recused itself from the case. The investigation concerns possible violations of federal anti-corruption laws by West for offering city jobs and…
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Movie Review
Christine Hurt on the Conglomerate blog (a very worthwhile read) has a review (here) of the movie Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, along with an interesting commentary interchange with John Steele (including reference to Body Heat, perhaps the only movie that hinges on the Rule Against Perpetuities).
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Prosecutor Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft
Former Washtenaw (Michigan) Assistant County Prosecutor Charles Carpenter entered a no contest plea to identity theft related to obtaining a credit card in his disabled mother’s name and stealing money from her. Carpenter, who had been charged originally with five felonies before the plea, joined the prosecutor’s office in 2000 after moving to Michigan from…
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