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Fraud
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Sentencing Law and Policy
“Prosecutors seek to revoke swindler’s bond for lying about cancer”
Main August 29, 2010"Prosecutors seek to revoke swindler's bond for lying about cancer" The title of this post is the headline of this amusing (though still serious) story from last…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Connecticut AG Sues Former Wesleyn Investment Director
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced earlier this week that he is suing Wesleyan University's former investment director Thomas Kannam and three private companies with which Kannam is affiliated for…
International Law Prof Blog
Today’s Stupid Email Trick: Ban Ki-Moon Just Gave Me $650,500 Cash!
All email users get ridiculous spam messages from time to time. Hopefully our spam filters catch most of those messages. But from time to time, some messages get through. I…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Former Countrywide CEO with Approving Special Loans
The SEC has already charged Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide, with fraud and insider trading. Now it charges, in a filing opposing the motions to dismiss by Mozilo…
Securities Law Prof Blog
BofA Deny Fraud Charges in New York AG’s Action
Bank of America Corp. and its former CEO Ken Lewis filed aggressive responses to the New York AG's civil fraud suit involving the BofA-Merrill Lynch merger, calling the merger "an…
Chicago IP Litigation
Fraud Sufficiently Pled by Citing to Earlier Fraud Decision
Golden Golf Lighting, Inc. v. Greenwich Indus., L.P., No. 07 C 1086, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jun. 18, 2010) (Andersen, J.). Judge Andersen denied defendant Clarin's Fed. R. Civ. P.…
Class Action Countermeasures
Classic Cases – Castano v. American Tobacco Co.
By The Editors
Castano v. American Tobacco Co. (5th Cir. 1996) involved a class of smokers, their estates, and their survivors arrayed against what was becoming a classic corporate villain: the tobacco companies.…
Death Care Compliance Law
Serving Time in Kansas: Fairlawn Burial Park
By Bill Stalter
Families and funeral homes harmed by NPS will hope that company’s owners and officers have to face a judge like the Honorable Richard Rome. The Hutchinson News reported that District…
D.C. Medical Malpractice Blog
Whistleblower Suits Likely To Increase Given Healthcare Reform
Posted by: Salvatore J. Zambri, founding partner Bloomberg News (7/28, Bass) reported, "Federal fraud cases begun by private citizens against drugmakers, insurers and hospitals will probably surge .…
Litigation & Trial
The Difference Between Fraud And Mistake Under The False Claims Act
The False Claim Act envisions a broad definition under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(b) for when a defendant "knowingly" makes a false or fraudulent claim to the federal government: (b) Knowing and…