Labor Day Weekend Notes From White-Collar Wire
For your Labor Day weekend: First: in our professional and business lives, let’s recall the significance of work. “The only place success comes before work...
Month: August 2013
DOJ Statement on US/Swiss Tax Evasion Investigations
From the White Collar Crime Prof Blog: a new DOJ Statement on US/Swiss Tax Evasion Investigations, and the policy’s implications....
SEC Goes To Bat For Misled Compliance Officer
From The Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance blog (and Samuel Rubenfeld @srubenfeld): Good news for corporate compliance officers whose officers or employees lie to...
TARP For The Condo
Using TARP money for the condo — Bank Executive Admits To Using Bailout Funds To Buy Condo — is never a good idea....
Fourth Circuit Rips United States Attorney’s Office For Brady Non-Disclosure
As noted by the White Collar Law Prof blog, here — Fourth Circuit Rebukes United States Attorney’s Office — this criticism of a United States...
No Criminal Prosecution for Las Vegas Sands, But A Hefty Disgorgement
The “largest all-cash gambler the company ever had.”...
White-Collar News from 500 Pearl Street: For Ponzi’d Investors, There’s A Future In Suicide
Today’s collection of white-collar stories from Walt Pavlo, here — 500 Pearl Street In particular, note the story about the alleged Ponzi schemer who tried to...
The Bellini and Hemingway
From the New York Times, a Bellini Video Recipe. The Bellini — the Times‘s drink for Wednesday — is not nearly as silly as it...
Fifth Circuit: “[A] district court cannot authorize interception of cell phone calls when neither the phone nor the listening post is present within the court’s territorial jurisdiction.”
You use your cell phone for work? In a potentially important Title III opinion, the Fifth Circuit limits the territorial reach of cellphone interception in...
ABA White-Collar Crime Committee Newsletter
The ABA White-Collar Crime Committee often produces good materials, and of course it hosts the annual Institute on White-Collar Crime. Here is the most recent ...
