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Will Another Head Roll?
Maurice Greenberg has led American International Group Inc. (AIG) since 1967, but his days as CEO may end as soon as today as the company deals with growing pressure from regulatory investigations. The company is being investigated by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for bid-rigging in the insurance brokerage industry, an investigation that resulted
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NLADA Appellate Support Network
Adam Neufeld of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association forwarded the following information about a program that may be of interest to readers of this blog: The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) is initiating the Appellate Support Network, a project that connects criminal procedure academics with public defenders working on important federal
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Fourth Circuit Opinion on the Crime-Fraud Exception and Attorney Work Product
An interesting Fourth Circuit decision on March 11 deals with the crime-fraud exception and discusses the different standards to be applied to attorney opinion work product and fact work product. The case, In re: Grand Jury Proceedings #5 (opinion here), has few facts beyond noting that the grand jury sought to compel the production of
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Sports Nutritionist Bulked Up at Texas Tech’s Expense
A sports nutritionist hired by Texas Tech University to obtain nutritional supplements for the football team — and then for athletes in other sports at the school — received a 33-month term of imprisonment on March 11 for defrauding the University out of almost $500,000. Aaron Shelley was hired to work at Texas Tech in
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Ramping Up at the SEC’s Atlanta Regional Office
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an interesting profile (here) of Katherine (Kit) Addleman, the new SEC Assistant Regional Administrator for Enforcement in the Atlanta office. That office has brought a number of enforcement actions in the past year, aided in part by the addition of 15 new staffers in the examinations and enforcement sections. The effects
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Prison Term for Investment Scam
A former insurance executive in Indiana, James Harrold, received a 78-month term of imprisonment for operating a scam in which he promised approximately 350 investors a 20% monthly return on their investment — once again, if it sounds too good to be true . . . . The scheme involved alleged investments in English subordinated
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Richard Hatch Says It’s Not His Fault the Taxes Weren’t Paid
Richard Hatch, the winner of the $1 million reward at the end of the first season of "Survivor" has now withdrawn from a plea agreement for failing to pay taxes on the winnings and an additional $321,000 he allegedly received from a Boston radio station (earlier post here). Hatch now asserts that he is "absolutely
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The House Serves Up Its Subpoenas
The crack of the bat, the pop of the catcher’s mitt, and the service of subpoenas — it sure sounds like Spring Training. The House Government Reform Committee issued subpoenas to the eleven players and executives (earlier post here listing scheduled participants) who it wishes to hear from on March 17 at a hearing into
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Orlando Mayor and Three Others Indicted For Improper Payments to Collect Absentee Ballots
Orlando (FL) Mayor Buddy Dyer, Circuit Judge Alan Apte, and two campaign workers were indicted by a grand jury in Florida for "providing pecuniary gain for absentee ballot possession or collection" in violation of a state law prohibiting such conduct (indictment here). The indictment alleges that Dyer and Apte paid campaign workers to pick up
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Allen/Dynamite Charge?
As the jury in the Bernie Ebbers prosecution spends more time deliberating, the possibility of a deadlock certainly increases. If the jury indicates that it cannot reach a unanimous agreement on one or more charges, the court may give an Allen charge — also known as a dynamite charge — to break the deadlock. A
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