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  • Financial Crimes Unit

    President Obama's State of the Union Address spoke to many important issues.  One was financial crime.  He said "[w]e will also establish a Financial Crimes Unit of highly trained investigators to crack down on large-scale fraud and protect people's investments." (see full text Wash Po here).  He later states, "[s]o pass legislation that makes the

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  • New Article – Indictment of Lawyers for their Legal Advice

    Attorney Jack Fernandez (Zuckerman Spaeder LLP) has an interesting Essay for the the ABA's White Collar Book entitled, An Essay Concerning the Indictment of Lawyers for Their Legal Advice.  It is here – Download 3533275_1 DOCX (3) (3) (esp)

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  • Circuit Riding

    Last Friday the DC Circuit affirmed a district court's refusal to amend or modify Abramoff cooperator Michael Scanlon's plea agreement. Scanlon sought to amend or modify his plea agreement prior to sentencing in light of Skilling v. United States. He had pled guilty to conspiracy to commit: bribery, money and property mail and wire fraud, and

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  • Cybercrime

    The Center on National Security at Fordham Law has a news source that provides "weekly news round-up of articles, information, and opinions about cybersecurity and the laws, policies, and challenges – both domestic and global – that define the cyber world week to week."  For more information, see here. (esp) 

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  • New Scholarship – Globalized Corporate Prosecutions

    I highly recommend Professor Brandon L. Garrett's new piece in the Virginia Law Review titled, "Globalized Corporate Prosecutions."  The abstract states: "In the past, domestic prosecutions of foreign corporations were almost unheard of. This has changed dramatically just in a few years. Federal prosecutors now advertise a muscular approach targeting major foreign firms and even

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  • Indicting Criminal Defense Counsel for Trial Misconduct

    Mike Scarcella over at the BLT Blog has an interesting piece titled, D.C. Attorney, Charged In Scheme, Fights Prosecutors Over Evidence. But what sounds unusual here is that the attorney is charged based upon testimony from a client that he represented, who is now cooperating with the government and the charges stem from alleged misconduct during the trial.  

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    Basil Katz, Reuters, 7 charged in $62 million Dell insider-trading case Scotus Blog, Supreme Court denies cert on Renzi v. United States (esp) 

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  • In the News & Around the Blogosphere

    DOJ Press Release, Former Dow Research Scientist Sentenced to 60 Months in Prison for Stealing Trade Secrets and Perjury Shannon Green, Corporate Counsel, DOJ Collected $1 Billion-Plus in 2011 Antitrust Fines Newsday (Published by LATimes), Illness postpones Edwards corruption trial NYTimes, Op Ed, On the Trail of Mortgage Fraud Edvard Pettersson, Bloomberg, Foreign Bribery Defendants

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  • Post-Skilling Remand Includes Spillover

    The Third Circuit in United States v. Wright held that the Skilling decision requires an new trial in this case on the honest services fraud convictions and that "prejudicial spillover tainted their traditional fraud convictions."  The court stated: "An honest services fraud prosecution for bribery after Skilling thus requires the factfinder to determine two things.  First, it must

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  • Federal Organizational Plea Agreements Website

    Professors Brandon Garrett and Jon Ashley have an incredible new website that is a library of 1495 federal corporate plea agreements in which an organization was convicted. They intend to update this collection of agreements. The site has the agreements by date, U.S. Attorney Office district and name. The site also provides links to other helpful

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