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Scrushy – Three Less to Deal With
Yesterday, the court eliminated three of the charges faced by Scrushy, the perjury counts. But this may be insignificant in that Scrushy still faces 55 counts including hefty penalty charges like securities fraud and money laundering. Is this why the Justice Department is not upset about this ruling? (See Wall Street Journal) Or is it
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Do You Trust Your Wife?
In The Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne overhears sadistic Captain Hadley complaining about having to pay taxes on lottery winnings and asks the Captain, "Do you trust your wife?" After nearly being thrown off a roof, Dufresne explains how Hadley can avoid taxes by giving the winnings to his wife, assuming he trusts her. On
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Major Indictments in NY – Stock Traders
David Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today nine indictments against 15 different specialists who worked for five different firms. The Wall Street Journal has a video of Kelley explaining the indictments (including a chart and description of the acts involved) here. More later, for now, here are the
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Sentencing- Is this a Government Fix?
Looks like someone thought they could pull off a Booker fix without anyone noticing. Thanks to Doug Berman’s wonderful blog here, and the NACDL website here, as well as so many others – it is being noticed. Both of these websites provide full details of what someone (is it DOJ?) is trying to make happen.
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Greenberg, Buffet, and AIG
Well there were no surprises yesterday (see post here) – the press tells that Greenberg will be silent; Buffett on the other hand talked, but said little. (NYTimes, Wall Street Jrl) And if they are asking Buffett about a telephone call from Nov. 2000, then one can certainly imagine why Greenberg chose to take the
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LexisNexis Sponsors Law Professor Blogs Network
We are thrilled to announce that LexisNexis has agreed to sponsor all of the blogs in our Law Professor Blogs Network: AntitrustProf Blog (Shubha Ghosh (SUNY Buffalo)) ContractsProf Blog (Carol Chomsky (Minnesota) & Frank Snyder (Texas-Wesleyan)) CrimProf Blog (Jack Chin (Arizona) & Mark Godsey (Cincinnati)) Health Law Prof Blog (Betsy Malloy (Cincinnati) & Tom Mayo
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Martha Stewart Loses Round One on Sentence Reduction Issue
We posted here that Martha Stewart’s attorneys had filed to reduce her sentence in light of the Booker decision. CNN reports today that the district court will not be reducing Stewart’s sentence. As such she will need to continue the home confinement and continue to wear an ankle bracelet, and we are not talking about
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Scrushy Motion Raises Old Issue In a New Light?
In the April 9th post there is a discussion of the a new motion filed by the defense in the trial of Richard Scrushy. The motion is here (Download Motion.pdf ) and the response is here (Download Response.pdf). Although the motion is titled to exclude the deposition and tape recorded conversations, the prayer for relief
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S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. a Good Place to Work!
It looks like a fraud investigation is being conducted by the US Attorneys Office in Milwaukee and the focus is on what a former employee of S.C. Johnson may have done. The investigation is about an "alleged multimillion-dollar mail- and wire-fraud scheme involving rigged trucking contracts by a longtime executive of consumer-products company S.C. Johnson
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Spitzer At It Again – This Time Drugs
Looks like McKesson may be traveling east in the upcoming weeks. And so too may other drug companies be having their attorneys heading out to New York (or securing counsel in NY to handle possible upcoming matters). According to a Wall Street Journal article here, several major drug companies have received subpoenas from Spitzer’s office.
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