- This month’s issue of the Federal Lawyer focuses on white collar crime, and includes this helpful article on subpoenas.
- Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited Seattle this week for a press conference stressing DOJ’s continued commitment to catching the killer of a federal prosecutor tragically murdered here in 2001. One month to the day after 9/11, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Wales was working at his computer at about 10:40 p.m. Someone familiar with his home and work habits evaded the motion-sensor-based floodlights in his yard and shot him through the window. Over almost 17 years of active investigation, the government has pursued a variety of theories. If the murder was related to his work, Mr. Wales would be the first federal prosecutor killed in the line of duty in American history.
- A new podcast investigating the murder, Somebody Somewhere, launched on January 30th.
- If you’re thinking about the Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place a D.C. Circuit decision about standing in data breach cases, there’s a nice discussion of it on this week’s episode of the National Security Podcast.
- Just a week after Valentine’s Day, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland indicted a dating site fraudster for stealing, and then laundering, money from would-be dates with the help of some catfish co-conspirators.