White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

FCPA

See FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

FEES

– Attorneys

See ATTORNEYS' FEES

– Home buyers who paid higher mortgage brokerage fees are “victims” under Crime Victims' Rights Act (11th Cir.), 16

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

See BANKING

FIRST AMENDMENT

See FREEDOM OF SPEECH

FLORIDA

– Medicaid, home health care billing fraud, South Fla. to be target of federal and state probe, 189
– Medicare billing fraud, infusion therapy clinics

See AIDS AND HIV

FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

– Books, records, and internal control issues, SEC official discusses agency focus on, 297
– DOJ not targeting specific industries, official tells conferees, 753
– Due diligence vital for firms given increased enforcement efforts, panelists say, 296
– Energy firms

– – Contract drilling firm to pay $1.3 million to settle charges, DOJ announces, 548
– – Power generator supply firm pleads guilty (C.D. Cal.), 547

– Halliburton agrees to settle charges involving KBR subsidiary's payments to Nigerian officials (S.D. Tex.), 74; sentencing, 137; 2 British citizens indicted for participating in scheme, 170
– Individual corporate executives face increasing risk of enforcement actions, Special Report, 569
– Oil-for-Food program, kickbacks to Iraqi officials

– – AGCO to pay $20 million to settle charges (D.D.C.), 715
– – Danish drug firm enters deferred prosecution pact (D.D.C.), 356

– Plea bargains, risks of jury trial outweigh effects of guilty pleas, Analysis and Perspective, 533
– Privatization of state oil company in rigged auction, defendant convicted of bribing Azerbaijan officials to ensure (S.D.N.Y.), 484
– Siemens enforcement action provides compliance lessons, Analysis and Perspective, 155; settlement reached with World Bank over bank-funded transportation project, 497
– Trends in enforcement discussed

– – ABA meeting, 680
– – KPMG webcast, 76

– Valve company executive pleads guilty (C.D. Cal.), 34
– Willbros president indicted for payments to Nigerian and Ecuadorian officials (S.D. Tex.), 8

FOREIGN CURRENCY

See CURRENCY

FORFEITURE

– Bribery, civil suit filed against accounts of Bangladeshi officials (D.D.C.), 44
– Disaster relief funds fraudulently obtained, sentence may include both forfeiture and restitution (5th Cir.), 677
– Fugitive disentitlement law misapplied to dismiss challenge to civil forfeiture suit for funds allegedly linked to illegal internet gambling enterprise (D.C. Cir.), 103
– RICO in personam civil forfeiture procedures in state law violate due process (Ga.), 494
– Right to appointed counsel lacking in substitute forfeiture matter (1st Cir.), 329

FRAUD

– Accounting fraud

See ACCOUNTING FRAUD

– Bank fraud

See BANKING

– Bankruptcy

– – Concealment of property interests, debtor indicted (M.D. Tenn.), 699
– – False statements at creditors' meetings, debtor may receive enhanced sentence for abusing position of trust (8th Cir.), 712

– Debt settlement firms, N.Y. governor launches probe into practices of, 366
– Disaster relief funds fraudulently obtained, sentence may include both forfeiture and restitution (5th Cir.), 677
– Double jeopardy

– – Accountant acquitted of fraud conspiracy may be tried on substantive fraud charges (7th Cir.), 711
– – Acquittal as to one victim does not bar prosecution for defrauding other victims (1st Cir.), 601

– Election funds, N.M. secretary of state indicted (N.M. Dist. Ct.), 581
– Enforcement agencies, proposed legislation would authorize hiring of more personnel, 79
– Environmental consultant arrested for allegedly defrauding N.Y. state government (W.D.N.Y.), 132
– Financial crisis

– – Government contracts, DOJ launches program to protect stimulus projects funds, 367
– – Sentencing Guidelines, factors in wake of market meltdown, Analysis and Perspective, 298
– – TARP

See TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM (TARP)

– – Tighter enforcement vowed by Frank (D-Mass), 187

– Government contract awards

– – Defense contracts

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3326

– – Sentence enhanced based on amount of loss (11th Cir.), 675

– Health care

See HEALTH CARE

– Honest services

See HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

– Insurance, workers' compensation, asbestos removal contractor sentenced for fraudulently concealing number of workers to avoid paying premiums (N.D.N.Y.), 555
– Kickbacks

See KICKBACKS

– Labor dispute, rehiring of locked-out workers under false names and Social Security numbers, Ralphs Grocery Co. executives acquitted (C.D. Cal.), 446
– Mail fraud

See MAIL FRAUD

– Mortgage fraud

See MORTGAGE FRAUD

– Obstruction of justice

See OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

– Receiving money under false pretenses, LLC is victimized “person” under state law (Miss.), 245
– Safety monitors on construction sites, head of consulting firm pleads guilty to falsifying credentials of (S.D.N.Y.), 449
– Securities

See SECURITIES

– Tax fraud

See TAX FRAUD

– Telemarketing fraud

See ADVERTISING

– Wire fraud

See WIRE FRAUD

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

– Attorney cannot be prosecuted for legal advice given in good faith (N.Y. App. Div.), 102
– Identity theft, public employee who used manager's e-mail to spread defamatory claims not shielded from prosecution (Wis.), 493
– Lobbying disclosure rules, Natl. Ass'n of Manufacturers challenge rejected (D.C. Cir.), 637
– News media right to access fraud victims' e-mails to court, removal of personal data may be required before disclosure (S.D.N.Y.), 495
– Trademarks, criminal ban on counterfeiting invalid (Pa.), 747
– Unsolicited commercial e-mails, Va. anti-spam law invalid (U.S., rev den), 261