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White Collar - March, 2012

229 articles

• Senate Confirms DOJ Inspector General, Tax Head
• SEC Wants Up To $13M In Fraud Case Against West End Exec
• Boies Schiller Scores SEC Lawyer Who Tried Rajaratnam
• Ex-McKinsey Consultant Faces Retrial In Embargo Case
• Detroit Clinic Owner Admits To $5.4M Medicare Fraud
• Case Study: Hermelin V. KV Pharmaceutical
• Charity Scraps Claims Linking Pryor Cashman To Bloom Ponzi
• UK Agency Says Banks Need Stricter Bribery Safeguards
• Ex-Temple Med School Official Gets 7 Years For Health Fraud
• 2nd Circ. OKs $3M Award To Louis Vuitton For Knockoffs
• Ex-LA Coliseum Official Cops To Role In Kickback Scheme
• NJ Labor Investigator Gets 5 Years For Taking $2M In Bribes
• Cadwalader Adds DOJ Vet To Business Fraud Group
• The Ted Stevens Prosecution — What's The Lesson?: Part 1
• European Court Denies Soros Insider Trading Appeal
• Ex-Massey Boss Cops To Thwarting US Mine Safety Efforts
• Navy Officials, Contractors Admit To $6M In Fraud
• Ex-Postal Worker Gets 90 Days For $13M Bribery Scheme Role
• 5 Hit With New Indictment In $14.5M Medicare Scam Case
• Key Blagojevich Witness Gets 10 Days For Role In Scheme
• Libor Panel Includes Banks Named In Rate-Fixing Probes
• Judge Derails Guilty Plea In Online Poker Case
• Stevens Case Sets Stage For Clash Over Discovery Rules
• Feds Fire Back At Indicted Atty's Bid To Toss RICO Claims
• Ex-DOD Official Gets 2 Years In Afghanistan Bribery Case
• Swiss Bank Wants Madoff Suit Out Of Bankruptcy Court
• Ratting Out The Competition: New DOJ Strategies
• Must-Have Performance Metrics For Law Departments
• Feds Drop Remaining Charges In Gabon FCPA Case
• Stevens Investigator Under Fire As Hearing Looms
• Shipping Co. Must Unload $2M For Oil Pollution Cover-Up
• DOJ's Tax Lien Bid-Rigging Probe Nets 6th Guilty Plea
• Megaupload Faces 1st Civil Copyright Suit Since Shutdown
• Ex-Hogan Lovells Atty Admits $2M Fraud
• Lawmakers Target War Contractors' Employee Trafficking
• Gupta Attys To Grill Blankfein On DOJ Deposition Coaching
• A Model Of Cooperation With The SEC
• Judge Quashes Challenge To $7B Picower Deal In Madoff Case
• Online Poker Payment Processor Cops To Conspiracy
• Madoff Fund Backs Off $900M Ernst & Young Negligence Suit
• Cos. Strive To Keep Up With Bribery Laws, Survey Finds
• Denso Exec To Admit To Auto Parts Price-Fixing Scheme
• UK Fines Coutts $14M For Shirking Client Criminal Probes
• Mets Owners To Pay $6.5M To End Workers' Madoff Losses Suit
• White Collar Litigation's Attendant Insurance Issues
• Biomet Inks $23M Deal In Latest Doctor Bribery Sting
• Philly Nurses Indicted In $14.3M Medicare Fraud Scheme
• Senate's Late Amendment Puts Crowdfunding In Doubt
• Deloitte & Touche Sued Over Ponzi Scheme At WG Trading
• Ex-NBA Player Indicted For Running $2M Ponzi Scheme
• NYC Housing Official Cops To Taking $2.5M In Bribes
• Lehman Insider Tipster Turned Cooperator Dodges Prison
• Ex-SK Foods CEO Pleads Guilty To Price-Fixing
• FCPA, Bribery Laws Will Fuel White Collar Work, GCs Say
• Scruggs Can't Delay Skilling Hearing For Surgery
• CPAs Ordered To Pay $2M In Pipeline Ponzi Scheme
• The Achilles Heel Of Anti-Bribery Law
• Gov't Opens Book-Cooking Case Against Ex-Vitesse CEO
• Media Tweets Not Enough To Win Stanford New Trial
• Madoff Trustee Renews Fight Against UniCredit In $59B Suit
• Finn Dixon White Collar Group Scores 2 Ex-Gov't Attys
• Ex-LA Coliseum Managers Arrested Amid Kickback Scandal
• Ex-Boeing Worker Asks High Court To Nix Espionage Sentence
• Key Takeaways From US V. AU Optronics
• Chevron, Transocean Execs Charged Over Brazil Spill
• Ex-Pa. Speaker Prison Bound For Misusing Taxpayer Cash
• NY Building Owner Says Ex-Crowell Atty Bungled $16M Sale
• Ex-Acorn CFO Can't Skirt Suit Over Petters' Ponzi Fraud
• Stanford Seeks New Trial Citing 'Prejudicial' Publicity
• DOD Scientist Gets 13 Years For Espionage
• High Court Defends Fair Trial Protections For Plea Deals
• What Trade Groups Want From FCPA Guidance
• Skowron To Pay Morgan Stanley $10.2M For Stock Dump
• Ex-Contractor Gets 3 Years For Bribe Scheme In Iraq
• 9th Circ. Clears JPMorgan In Bank's $130M Ponzi Scheme
• Ex-Carter's President Charged In $16M Securities Fraud
• Ex-Taylor Bean Finance Chief Cops To Aiding $3B Fraud
• Former Motorola Engineer Demands New IP Theft Trial
• Bradley Arant Lures Prosecutor To White Collar Team
• Lanexa Consents To Pay Disgorgement Over Galleon Scheme
• SEC's Charges Against Noble Execs — A Noble Pursuit?
• High Court Mulls Southern Union's $18M Mercury Storage Fine
• 5th Circ. Revives Stanford Suits Against Proskauer, Others
• Costa Rican Co. Denies Charges Of $670M Insurance Fraud
• Prosecutors Fight Contempt Questions For Edwards Aide
• Mercer Consultant Pleads Guilty To Insider Trading
• High Court Won't Hear Brocade Exec's Appeal In Fraud Case
• Convicted NY Hospital Fraud Plotters Say DOJ Hid Witness
• How They Won It: Skadden Sinks Madoff Trustee's $59B Suit
• US Chases $12M From CityTime Subcontractor Technodyne
• Ex-Judge's Plea Deal Rejected In Hurricane Ike Bribe Case
• 2011 Anti-Corruption Year In Review
• Mets Owners To Pay $162M To Settle With Madoff Trustee
• $40M Rothstein Adversary Case Stays In Bankruptcy Court
• Calif. Real Estate Developer Indicted In $7M Bond Scheme
• Ex-Omni Execs Face FDIC Suit Over Collapse
• Gupta Says Wrong Man Is On Trial In Insider Trading Case
• Willkie Enlists Ex-Herbert Smith Compliance Atty In UK
• John Edwards Must Return $2.2M In Campaign Funds
• Attys Pin Hopes On Post-Stevens Disclosure Bill
• Hedge Fund Manager Admits To $6M Ponzi Scheme
• Keeping The Yakuza Out Of The Financial System
• US Atty Unmasked After Commenting On Investigations Online
• 6th Circ. Rejects Bid-Rigging School Official's Plea Appeal
• Wells Fargo To Pare $30M Secured Claims In Dreier Deal
• Judge Allows John Edwards To Use Ex-Paramour's Lawyers
• Helmerich Rig Chief Denies Lying On Blowout Tests
• Judge Gives GCC Alliance Probation For Concrete Price-Fixing
• Consultant Cops To Insider Trading On Carlyle's NBTY Buy
• Report Says DOJ Withheld Evidence During Stevens Trial
• Guidant Can't Kill $726M FCA Suit Over Implant Claims
• Trends In White Collar Crime Investigations, Prosecutions
• NY Judge To Take On Madoff Trustee's $100M Maxam Suit
• AUO Price-Fixing Verdict Shows Risks Of A DOJ Showdown
• Burden Of Proof Rests On Mets Owners In Madoff Trial
• Rothstein Investor Can Recoup $25M Clawback Settlement
• Judge Certifies Classes In Madoff-Linked Funds Suits
• Indicted Atty Wants RICO Charges Tossed in Bribery Case
• Ex-Taylor Bean Exec To Plead Guilty In $3B Fraud
• La. High Court Returns 60-Year Hitch In Katrina Scam
• Ill. Lawmaker Charged With Bribery After Sting
• Aircraft Lease Co., CEO Convicted Of $50M Fraud Scheme
• Swiss Advisers Accused In $200M Offshore Tax Conspiracy
• Aircraft Repair Co. To Cough Up $12M Over FCPA Charges
• Broadband's Kinnucan Pleads Not Guilty To Insider Trading
• Contractor, 3 Others Charged In Iraq Kickbacks Scheme
• Ted Stevens Prosecutor Can't Stop Airing Of Dirty Laundry
• Clarity For Supervisory Liability?
• ESM Exec Admits Skirting Import Duties On Military Supplies
• Patient Broker Admits Role In $205M Medicare Bribery Scam
• SAIC Will Pay $500M To End CityTime Kickbacks Case
• Ex-Fiesta Bowl Head Cops To Federal Conspiracy Charge
• Exec Admits To Bribing Corps Director For $1B In Contracts
• Jury Convicts AUO, 2 Execs Of LCD Price-Fixing Plot
• Witness Flub Won't Change Vegas Housing Fraud Verdict
• Ballplayer, Ex-DA Could Testify At Mets Owners' Madoff Trial
• Haitian Ex-Official Convicted In Phone Co. Bribery Scheme
• Case Study: US V. Kernell
• Rebekah Brooks Arrested Again In News Corp. Hacking Probe
• UBS Clawback Suit Moved Back To Bankruptcy Court
• Proskauer Rose Can't Put Stanford Action On Hold
• Ex-Bank Boss Hid Money To Skirt $4.5M Restitution, Feds Say
• Hedge Fund Trustee Must Wait To Sue In Petters Case
• Afghan Bros. Get 6, 18 Months In Contract Graft Case
• Rothstein Trustee Seeks $10M From Insurer
• Ex-Construction Co. Worker Cops To Role In $10M Fraud
• Paul Hastings Atty To Lead New Perkins Coie SEC Team
• US Pitches Evidence Of 2nd Air Cargo Price-Fixing Scheme
• Re-Ensuring Compliance With The FCPA
• Ex-Frontier Holdings CEO Fights $6.8M Restitution
• Why Communications Is Key To Merger And Lateral Success
• SC Lt. Governor Cops To Campaign Donation Scheme
• Continental Wants Out Of Policy Tainted By Securities Scheme
• NRP Settles Suit Over Rep's Crown Forex Ponzi Role For $1M
• Mets Owners May Take Stand At $303M Madoff Clawback Trial
• Ex-Ohio County Official Convicted Over Kickback Scheme
• Lehman Tipster Asks To Be Let Off Without Jail Time
• Rothstein Trustee's TD Bank Suit Stays Put For Now
• Ex-Atty Gets 5 Years For Embezzling $1M From Clients
• Mining Co. To Pay Fine Over Deadly 2007 Collapse
• Judge Transfers Detroit Bridge Project To Mich. DOT
• Barclays, RBS Targeted By US In Libor-Fixing Probe
• Ex-Fulbright Partner, Wife Prison-Bound After Bilking Firm
• Judge Allows Law Firm To Exit $23M Cobalt Fraud Suit
• Former Quarles & Brady Atty Must Repay Client For Theft
• Attys Arrested Over Calif. Loan Modification Scam
• Jury Orders Forfeiture Of $330M In Stanford Accounts
• 5 Charged In Katrina Home Repair Funds Scandal
• Convicted Investment Advisers Try To Block SEC Suit
• Trustmark Must Repay Stanford Vendor $2M: 5th Circ.
• Army Captain Admits To Taking Cash From Iraqi Contractor
• Criminal Price-Fixing Suit Against Auto Cos. Gets Go-Ahead
• Ex-NY State Sen. Bruno Won't Get $2M Legal Fees Yet
• DOJ Urges Sanctions For Attys Who Botched Stevens Case
• Takeaways From Tappin's Extradition
• Mich. High Court Won't Hear Detroit Bridge Owner's Appeal
• Former AIG Exec, Ex-Husband Cop To Horse Farm Fraud
• Ex-Navy Worker Cops To Disclosing Bid Info To Booz Allen
• Senate OKs Bill To Beef Up Counterfeit Drug Penalties
• AU Optronics Jurors Asleep On The Job, Literally
• Madoff Fund Investor Wants PwC Fraud Case Reopened
• Madoff Report Calls For Transparency In Trustee Hires
• SIPC Sticks By Refusal To Repay Stanford Victims
• Alabama Sens., Casino Owner Cleared Of Bribery Charges
• The Future Of Renewable Energy And The False Claims Act
• US Conducting Criminal Libor-Fixing Probe, DOJ Says
• US Collected $509M FCPA Fines In 2011: Report
• Espada Tax Charges Filed In Wrong District, Judge Says
• Japan Watchdog Seeks Charges Over Olympus Fraud
• Feds Charge 5 Alleged 'Anonymous' Hackers
• DOJ Warns Of Coming Criminal Cases Over Financial Crisis
• LA Atty Gets 60 Days For Edwards Campaign Donations
• SEC May Add Claims To Galleon-Linked Insider Trading Case
• Stanford Convicted For $7B Ponzi Scheme
• Rajaratnam May Testify In $5M Tax Shelter Case
• Uncovering Enhanced Trademark Protections In The NDAA
• Texas Doc Denied Bail In Record Medicare Fraud Case
• No Bail For Briton In Iran Missile Part Trading Case
• Stanford Jurors Deadlocked In $7B Ponzi Case
• Jury Finds Consultant Guilty Of Skimming $1.7M From NYC
• Ex-FDA Chemist Gets 5 Years For Insider Trading
• UAE Bank Wants $40M Credit Suisse Valuation Suit Revived
• Jenner Adds Ex-Prosecutor To NY White Collar Team
• Indicted Atty Says Gov't Lied To Keep Seized Docs Secret
• Mets Owners Going To Trial In Madoff Clawback Case
• Insurers Can't Heap Madoff Victims' Claims, Judge Says
• Ill. Official Slams 'Wild' US Atty After Denying Tax Charges
• Feds Eye 6 Years For Ex-Pegasus CEO In Stock Fraud
• US Pins Ex-Laguna Officers For $5M Kickback Scheme
• Judge Clears Nadel Receiver's Distribution Plan
• US Attys Coaching Goldman CEO For Gupta Trial
• Law360 White Collar Editorial Advisory Board
• Feds' Smuggling Busts Nab $325M In Counterfeit Bags, Shoes
• Confusion For Legal And Compliance Officers Post-Urban
• Ex-AGs Back Siegelman In High Court Bribery Appeal
• Legislators Say Campaign Treasurer Stole Millions
• Ex-DuPont Worker Admits He Sold Secrets To Chinese Co.
• Prosecutor Fights Release Of Ted Stevens Misconduct Report
• Jury's Out On AU Optronics LCD Price-Fixing Case
• US Loses Appeal Over Bail For Megaupload Boss
• S. Korea Criminalizes Antitrust Probe Interference
• US Wants Strict Sentence For Ex-Winston Atty In Starr Fraud
• Madoff Trustee Can't Add Evidence To $386M Mets Fight
• John Edwards Declared Healthy Enough For April Trial
• Prosecutors Say Helmerich Rig Chief Lied On Blowout Tests
• The Battle For Swiss Banking Traditions
• Defense Contractors — New Market Environment, New Risks
• Vote-Buying Charge Stays Alive In Casino Owner's Trial
• Chesapeake Reveals DOJ Environment Probe In W.Va.