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  • 2022 Business Law Symposium White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future *Event Recording*

    Did you miss the The Stetson Business Law Review inaugural Symposium: White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future? This symposium featured keynote speakers in both the academic morning session and practitioner panels in the afternoon sessions. The conference includes topics such as white collar crime investigations, insider trading, prosecution and punishment

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  • Not Guilty After Trial – Former Boeing Pilot

    Many accused of crimes do not take the risk of going to trial – they take a plea agreement. Our legal system has become more and more a system of pleas, with fewer trials, especially in the white collar area. But occasionally someone takes that risk, and is found not guilty.  That happened this week

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  • DOJ Moves Toward Transparency – Will it Include Discovery?

    AG Garland announced a new policy this week in a press release titled, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Issues New FOIA Guidelines to Favor Disclosure and Transparency .  The actual policy that favors transparency in FOIA requests is located here.  The new guidance says that there is a presumption of openness.  Years back the National Association

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  • Oral Argument in Ruan and Kahn

    Here is a transcript of the March 1, 2022, U.S. Supreme Court Argument in Ruan and Kahn. Ruan v. United States and Kahn v. United States are consolidated cases involving the kind of good faith instruction, if any, required when physicians are indicted and tried for illegally dispensing controlled substances. We have previously posted about these cases

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  • Corporate Crime and COVID Fraud – Top Federal Priorities

    AG Garland's speech today at the White Collar Crime Institute – get ready for more corporate crime and COVID fraud cases -  here (esp)

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  • Latest Filings in Ruan and Kahn Pain Management Physician Cases

    We have posted previously, here and here, about the anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in the consolidated cases of Ruan v. United States and Kahn v. United States. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and consolidated the two cases last November. Oral argument is set for March 1, 2022. The cases involve the appropriate jury instruction

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  • White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future

    The Stetson Business Law Review is thrilled to announce its inaugural Symposium: White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future. This virtual symposium, set to be held on Friday, February 25th, 2022, will feature keynote speakers in both the academic morning session and practitioner panels in the afternoon sessions.  The conference will include topics such

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  • Michael Sussman’s Motion to Dismiss

    Here is the Sussman Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State an Offense, filed in Special Counsel John Durham's 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 false statement prosecution against former Perkins Coie attorney Michael Sussman. Sussman's argument is that even if the facts laid out in Durham's Indictment are true, they fail, as a matter of law,

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  • Naming Conventions And Naming Convictions

    What’s in a name? Several of the individuals indicted in connection with the January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol have been charged under Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(c)(2). Subsection (c) of 18 U.S.C. §1512 seeks to punish: “Whoever corruptly–(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or

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  • Stetson Business Law Review Symposium: White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future

    The Stetson Business Law Review is thrilled to announce its inaugural Symposium: White Collar Crime: A Look into The Past, Present, and Future. This virtual symposium, set to be held on Friday, February 25th, 2022, will feature keynote speakers in both the academic morning session and practitioner panels in the afternoon sessions.  The conference will include topics such

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