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Financial Meltdown Prosecutions Against Elite Actors? File Them Under “I’ll Believe It When I See It.”
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, reported here, Attorney General Holder promises that “he plans to announce new cases stemming from the economic meltdown in the coming months.” Some media outlets have interpreted this as a harbinger of criminal prosecutions, but Holder did not indicate whether the cases would be civil or criminal.…
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11th Circuit Reverses Health Care Fraud Conviction
In an unpublished opinion by the 11th Circuit, the court in United States v. Reddy reversed and remanded a conviction coming out of a 7 day trial that started with a 37 count Indictment and had convictions for all but five wire fraud counts. This health care case included counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, health…
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Resources
Find White Collar Crime Profs • Google Scholar • Law Schools • SSRN Free Legal Web Sites • Findlaw • JURIST Teaching • Course Materials Scholarship • SSRN Criminal Law & Procedure • American Criminal Law Review • American Journal of Criminal Law • Buffalo Criminal Law Review • California Criminal Law Review • Journal…
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Upcoming Conferences
ABA Sixth Annual Foreign Corrupt Practices Act National Institute, Sept. 18-19, 2013, Washington, D.C. – here NACDL's 9th Annual Conference – Defending the White Collar Case: In and Our of Court, Oct. 24-25, Washington, D.C. – here (esp)
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Lion Fraud?
ABC News, Chinese zoo's 'African lion' exposed when dog substitute barks here (esp)(hat tip Tunde Akinyele)
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Sentencing – Sandi Jackson and Jesse Jackson Jr.
The BLT Blog provides background here. The government asked for 4 years and the defense wanted a much lower amount for Jesse Jackson Jr. The court entered a sentence of 2 1/2 years (30 months) for Jesse Jackson Jr. and 1 year (12 months) for his wife, Sandi Jackson. See Ann E. Marimow and Rachel…
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Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy – Call for Papers
Call for Papers from the Notre Dame Jrl of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy – The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy is currently accepting articles and essays from professors, practitioners, and public officials for publication in its symposium issue, which will focus on the legal, moral, and ethical considerations of white-collar…
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Hats Off to AG Holder
Attorney General Eric Holder's talk (see here) at the American Bar Association Conference should be applauded. To have an Attorney General say that "our criminal justice system is in too many respects broken" is a huge step in us moving ahead to change. His recognition "that 20th Century criminal justice solutions are not adequate to overcome our 21st…
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DOJ’s Admission: Our Mortgage Fraud Numbers Were Phony
by: Soloman L. Wisenberg Well, DOJ didn't admit it in those exact words. The tone and content were more Ziegleresque: "[T]he announcement overstated the number of defendants that should have been included as part of the Distressed Homeowner Initiative, as well as the corresponding estimated loss amount and number of victims." The original press release and…
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An Enormously Important Ethics Opinion From the DC Bar
by: Solomon L. Wisenberg I posted here last October on Guts and the DC Bar Counsel: The Case of Andrew J. Klineand asked: "What is the solution to the persistent blight of jaw-droppingly obvious Brady/Giglio violations? One solution is to bring ethical complaints against purportedly miscreant prosecutors in appropriate instances. Which brings us to the case…
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