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Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS decides honest services fraud statute covers only brides and kickbacks
Main June 24, 2010SCOTUS decides honest services fraud statute covers only brides and kickbacksThrough a series of three opinions authored by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court this morning…
Nursing Home Abuse Advocate
Some Prosecutors Are Using Hate Crime Law To Prosecute Non-Violent Crimes Against The Elderly
Although this post is a little off the topic usually addressed in this blog, I found an an interesting article by Anne Barnard in yesterday's New York Times. The article reported on the…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
SDNY Goes After Bongiorno and Crupi Assets
By Ellen Podgor
GUEST BLOGGER-SOLOMON L. WISENBERGHere is the SDNY's press release regarding the civil forfeiture complaints filed yesterday against property "traceable" to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme "and paid to or on behalf of" former Bernard L.…
Pill Mill Monitor
Houston Pill Mills targeted
By Kay Van Wey
The Houston Chronicle recently reported a story of alleged pill mills (S&G Medical Clinic, Texas Medicine Direct, and Uptown Medical Clinic) which stand accused of distributing large quantities of Vicodin, Xanax and…
CAFA Law Blog
Eating Good in CAFA’s Neighborhood
Curry v. Applebee’s International, Inc., 2009 WL 3855679, (S.D. Ohio November 17, 2009) It is often said that if something is too good to be true it probably is. Weight conscious…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Investment Adviser With Fraudulent Management of CDOs Tied to Mortgage-Backed Securities
The SEC today charged a New York-based investment adviser, Thomas Priore, and three of his affiliated firms with fraudulently managing investment products tied to the mortgage markets as they came under pressure…
The Faculty Lounge
Kerviel’s Fake Trades: Genius Or Copy Cat?
In my last post, Kerviel’s Fake Trades: The Anatomy of A Cover-Up, I began discussing the fake trades Kerviel employed to disguise his unauthorized losses (and gains). Contrary to Société…
The Faculty Lounge
Kerviel’s Fake Trades: The Anatomy of A Cover-Up
I’m taking a bit of a detour in my planned series of posts on the Jerome Kerviel trial (see the links to related posts, below) in order to talk about…
Securities Law Prof Blog
STATS not Illegal under Rhode Island Insurance Law, Judge Rules
A variation on the viatical settlement scam has turned up: A recent federal district court recently considered the legality of stranger-initiated annuity transactions, or STATs and held that they were…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Money Manger with Alleged Ties to Belgian Royal Family with Fraud
The SEC announced Friday that it filed an emergency civil enforcement action to halt a fraudulent bridge loan scheme orchestrated by New York-based Chimay Capital Management, Inc. (Chimay Capital) and its chairman,…