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InVision Settles With DOJ
InVision Technologies, Inc. (a recent acquisition of GE) and the government reached an agreement, with the company paying $800,000 in penalties and providing cooperation in "parallel investigations" with the DOJ and SEC. The company which specializes in homeland security equipment agreed not only to pay this penalty, but according to a DOJ news release, also
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White Collar Crime Employment Opportunity
Reposting Item from Nov. 8th – White Collar Crime Employment Opportunity Applicants Sought for White-Collar Crime Initiative Director National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers seeks a director for its new white-collar crime initiative focusing on over-criminalization, over-federalization, the gradual disappearance of mens reas as an element of a
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Contempt for the Press?
The privilege of the press not to reveal a source has been a problem lately, but this time the issue is a bit different. On one hand sources reveal information to the press because of this privilege, and the first amendment is therefore fostered. On the other hand the government may want the source of
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Lawyers, Beware of Your Clients
In this a.m.’s NYTimes is an article titled, Man Sentenced in Tax Schemes Also Releases Data on Lawyers. Several items are of interest in what the NYTimes describes as the case of "the nation’s most prominent seller of offshore banks in tax evasion schemes," being "sentenced yesterday to six months in prison by a federal
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Librarian Fraud
When one thinks of "librarians" the words that often come to mind are "helpful," "trustworthy," and "knowledgeable." They are a "protected class" of individuals that caused John Ashcroft grief when he tried to enter their turf. (Reports indicated that Patriot Act advocates had to defend themselves when it was believed that "expanded powers" under the
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International Investigations
According to a recent AP story, the Swiss "have blocked bank accounts containing "$100 million in an investigation of an alleged bribery scandal tied to a subsidiary of Halliburton Co." According to the report, which can be found in several online newspapers, it is unclear which accounts were frozen, and whether the money relates to
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Preventing White Collar Crime
How best to prevent white collar crime, has long been a concern of sociologists and criminologists. Should one use deterrence (specific of general), rehabilitation, or retribution? In an article in this a.m.’s Atlanta Journal Constitution, titled, "Lessons in staving off temptation-FBI agent, white-collar criminals give ‘scared straight’ ethics seminars," a description is provided of an
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Sentencing Tensions Boil Over Between Judge and Prosecutor
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines have heightened the tension between judges and prosecutors, and it boiled over into a nasty confrontation between the U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett, Chief Judge for the Northern District of Iowa, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Fletcher. According to an article in the Des Moines Register (Dec. 1): A national debate
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U.S. v. Scrushy Void-for-Vagueness Opinion
The memorandum opinion by U.S. District Judge Karon O. Bowdre rejecting the challenge by Richard Scrushy to the charges filed against him for violating the Sarbanes-Oxley CEO/CFO financial statement certification provision (18 U.S.C. 1350 as void-for-vagueness is (much belatedly–my apologies) here. The judge concluded: Taking 18 U.S.C.A. §1350 in its entirety, as the court must,
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How Not to Leave a Job
An employee worked for a company in New York City called StaffIT until he was fired on Oct. 31. Some time that evening, the employee allegedly accessed the company’s computer system and deleted e-mail of his boss who had fired him. Maybe a nice way to get back at the company for firing you, but
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