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typepad/WpbBhttp://feedburner.google.comRomney Non-Disclosure? Ho-Hum.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016300322787970d2012-01-26T23:58:17-05:002012-01-27T17:44:21Z2012-01-27T04:58:17ZThe L.A. Times reports here that Mitt Romney did not "explicitly disclose" certain foreign and offshore bank accounts on his required federal campaign disclosure forms. These same accounts were reported, however, to the IRS. Doesn't look like there's much to...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerCelebritiesCurrent AffairsMediaTaxFinancial Crimes Unit tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01630013d001970d2012-01-25T00:23:43-05:002012-01-25T05:23:43Z2012-01-25T05:23:43ZPresident 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."...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerInvestigationsProsecutionsProsecutorsPaterno's Death May Affect Trial of Penn State Officialstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000245dd970d2012-01-24T03:00:00-05:002012-01-24T15:11:45Z2012-01-24T08:00:00ZJoe Paterno is dead, his legacy as one of the greatest coaches in the history of sports tarnished by his termination -- unjust, I believe -- on the grounds that he inappropriately failed to pursue vigorously an allegation of child...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerCelebritiesGrand JuryInvestigationsNewsPerjurySportsNew Article - Indictment of Lawyers for their Legal Advicetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162fffb6da2970d2012-01-23T02:55:00-05:002012-01-23T14:41:09Z2012-01-23T07:55:00ZAttorney 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)White Collar Crime Prof BloggerDefense CounselLegal EthicsProsecutionsScholarshipCircuit Ridingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162fffc539b970d2012-01-23T01:07:14-05:002012-01-23T06:08:38Z2012-01-23T06:07:14ZLast 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerJudicial OpinionsCybercrimetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760ae48e5970b2012-01-22T08:35:00-05:002012-01-22T13:35:00Z2012-01-22T13:35:00ZThe 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerComputer CrimeNewsNew Scholarship - Globalized Corporate Prosecutionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5ae9de2970c2012-01-20T19:25:00-05:002012-01-21T00:25:00Z2012-01-21T00:25:00ZI 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerScholarshipThe Lesson of Joe Paternotag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760da3815970b2012-01-20T12:44:38-05:002012-01-20T17:39:02Z2012-01-20T17:44:38ZYesterday's New York Times has an extremely lengthy but disappointingly unilluminating article about the firing by the Penn State Board of Trustees of legendary football coach Joe Paterno (and also Penn State president Graham Spanier) for purportedly failing to take...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerCelebritiesGrand JuryInvestigationsSportsIndicting Criminal Defense Counsel for Trial Misconducttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760c26f57970b2012-01-19T22:02:33-05:002012-01-20T03:02:15Z2012-01-20T03:02:33ZMike 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerDefense CounselProsecutionsProsecutorsIn the News & Around the Blogospheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5c1b1ed970c2012-01-18T22:35:47-05:002012-01-19T03:35:47Z2012-01-19T03:35:47ZBasil Katz, Reuters, 7 charged in $62 million Dell insider-trading case Scotus Blog, Supreme Court denies cert on Renzi v. United States (esp)White Collar Crime Prof BloggerNewsIn the News & Around the Blogospheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e578bd54970c2012-01-18T11:45:00-05:002012-01-15T17:11:48Z2012-01-18T16:45:00ZDOJ 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerNewsPost-Skilling Remand Includes Spillovertag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760ae91c5970b2012-01-17T09:17:46-05:002012-01-17T14:17:07Z2012-01-17T14:17:46ZThe 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerCorruptionFraudJudicial OpinionsFederal Organizational Plea Agreements Websitetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01676092f844970b2012-01-16T01:03:00-05:002012-01-15T17:07:16Z2012-01-16T06:03:00ZProfessors 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...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerDeferred Prosecution AgreementsProsecutionsScholarshipSettlementMore Discovery Issues - Petition for Cert Filed in Brown Case Looks at Bradytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01676091a457970b2012-01-16T00:58:00-05:002012-01-16T07:08:45Z2012-01-16T05:58:00ZThe cert petition in James A. Brown v. United States (11-783) raises interesting questions regarding Brady. Brown, a former Merrill Lynch executive "was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for his testimony before the Enron grand jury about a...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerEnronJudicial OpinionsProsecutorsFunk and Minder's Bloomberg Article Serves Up Comprehensive Defense of Incremental, Common Sense FCPA Reformtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff63f733970d2012-01-15T07:58:00-05:002012-01-15T12:58:00Z2012-01-15T12:58:00ZABA Global Anti-Corruption Task Force Co-Chair T. Markus Funk and his Perkins Coie colleague M. Bridget Minder just authored "Bribery of Foreign Officials: The FCPA in 2011 and Beyond: Is Targeted FCPA Reform Really the “Wrong Thing at the Wrong...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerFCPANew Article - Big Law's Sixth Amendment: The Rise of Corporate White-Collar Practices in Large U.S. Law Firmstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff7c01a1970d2012-01-15T00:06:00-05:002012-01-15T05:06:00Z2012-01-15T05:06:00ZCheck out Charles D. Weisselberg and Su Li's article available on SSRN here. Abstract: Over the last three decades, corporate white-collar criminal defense and investigations practices have become established within the nation’s largest law firms. It did not used to...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerScholarshipInside Trader Brownstein Receives 366-Day Sentencetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760789ad6970b2012-01-13T14:30:10-05:002012-01-13T19:30:10Z2012-01-13T19:30:10ZFormer Denver hedge-fund operator Drew "Bo" Brownstein, about whose case we wrote (see here), was sentenced Wednesday to a prison term of one year and one day following his plea of guilty to insider trading charges. Brownstein had received confidential...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerInsider TradingSecuritiesSentencingIn the News & Around the Blogospheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167606f6844970b2012-01-13T02:49:46-05:002012-01-13T07:49:16Z2012-01-13T07:49:46ZAP, NYTimes, Michigan: Ex-Congressman Gets One-Year Sentence (w/ a hat tip to Ivan Dominguez) Susan Pulliam, WSJ, Galleon Prosecutor to Leave for Dechert Peter Lattman, NYTimes, Ex-Fund Manager Gets Prison Term in Insider Trading Case FCPA Professor, The Year That...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerNewsIn the News & Around the Blogospheretag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675f6d0b09970b2012-01-11T13:22:00-05:002012-01-10T14:58:53Z2012-01-11T18:22:00ZLynnley Browning, Reuters, US moves toward legal action against Swiss bank-sources Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel, law.com, DOJ and SEC Use of Deferred and Non-prosecution Agreements in 2011 Robbie Brown, NYTimes, North Carolina: Edwards Legal Team Asks for Delay (hat tip...White Collar Crime Prof BloggerNewsFalse Claims Act - Qui Tam Lawtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff56fd85970d2012-01-10T13:02:00-05:002012-01-10T18:02:00Z2012-01-10T18:02:00ZCheck out A. Brian Albritton's, False Claims Act & Qui Tam Law Blog - Recent news and cases concerning the False Claims Act, Qui Tams, whistleblowers, and other related collateral proceedings. (esp)White Collar Crime Prof BloggerAbout This BlogNews