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White Collar Crime Policy: The SEC's New Cooperation Policy
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.
On Feb. 6, 2014, former SAC Capital Advisors LP manager Mathew Martoma became the 79th individual convicted of insider trading in cases brought by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s office. After less than three days of deliberation, a jury of seven women and five men convicted Martoma on all three counts of insider trading.1 Despite the herculean efforts of a defense team led by Richard Strassberg of Goodwin Proctor, Martoma faces up to 20 years in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for June.
The Congressional Task Force on Overcriminalization conducted 10 investigative hearings in 2013-2014. Topics included reducing the number of federal crimes and eliminating mandatory collateral consequences of conviction.
White Collar Crime Project
For most people, the One Hundred and Fourteenth United States Congress (January 2015-January 2017) has not been an exemplar of political cooperation. Despite the perception of the public, however, an almost unprecedented number of criminal justice reform bills are pending.
A refashioning of statutes that ensures meaningful criminal intent standards in criminal laws, and which applies to all manner of offenses, is a due process-centered reform that should be included in the panoply of much-needed criminal justice reforms.
White-Collar Crime Multiple Authors March 2010 Page 56 FCPA Enforcement Update DOJ Targets the Health Care Industry Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”)1 has increased over the past several years. In 2009 alone, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities Excha
White Collar Crime
Gathering Defense Evidence Abroad
Sentencing
Evolving Extradition
Anatomy of a Federal Health Care Fraud Prosecution
The Limits of a Nonwaiver Agreement
The Decline and Fall of Mens Rea
