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Congress often includes criminal offenses and penalties in legislation regulating the financial services industry and other major industries with significant business components, such as the healthcare industry. NACDL works to educate members of Congress on the problems with including criminal offenses and penalties in such legislation and, where appropriate, advocates against the legislation.
Letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding USSC priorities in the current (2014) amendment cycle.
Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding proposed amendments to the sentencing guidelines.
Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing ("CAN-SPAM") Act of 2003.
Letter to the U.S. Sentencing Commission regarding proposed amendments pertaining to diminished capacity and theft, fraud and tax loss tables.
Comments to the U.S. Sentencing Commission on proposed 1997 Emergency Amendments.
The U.S. Supreme Court saved 18 U.S.C. § 1346 and the honest-services doctrine from the void-for-vagueness dust heap in Skilling v. United States. Jonathan Jeffress and William Zapf explore certain “limiting principles” courts have followed that may be avenues for challenging an honest-services prosecution. In addition, they include a brief survey detailing how circuit court pattern jury instructions cover honest-services fraud.
Philadelphia litigator Alexander Owens discusses two cases that may reflect a renewed focus on private equity firms in the False Claims Act arena. Lawyers representing private equity firms should strive to understand the unique financial and managerial dynamics that place many private equity firms in the government’s crosshairs.
Practitioners defending clients against federal fraud charges or related conspiracy charges should be aware of the Wartime Suspension of Limitations Act, particularly lawyers working on defense procurement cases.
Jury Instruction on Medicare Civil Rules and Regulations.
Letter with the Heritage Foundation to Senate Judiciary Committee Leadership regarding the redundancy of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA) of 2009 (S. 386).
NACDL Board member Barry Pollack's written statement to the House Judiciary Committee regarding federal criminal fraud laws.
Joint amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers.
Amicus curiae brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in support of petitioner.
