White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

PATENTS

– Drugs, generic competition for Plavix blood-thinning drug, Bristol-Myers Squibb executive pleads guilty to false statements (D.D.C.), 247

PENNSYLVANIA

– Coal miner death, mine owner and foreman sentenced (Pa. Ct. C.P.), 828
– Free speech rights violated by criminal ban on trademark counterfeiting (Pa.), 747

PENSIONS

– Embezzlement

– – Electrical contractors convicted of embezzling from company's 401(k) plan (W.D. Wash.), 742
– – Tax-qualified status, loss by plan does not bar prosecution for stealing from ERISA plan (5th Cir.), 143
– – Union pension fund manager pleads guilty to stealing from benefits plans (E.D. Mo.), 358; sentencing, 791

– 401(k) plan administrator sentenced for stealing employees' contributions (D. Neb.), 180
– Kickbacks, state officials indicted for scheme in choosing investment firms to manage public employees' pension fund (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 204; hedge fund manager pleads guilty, head of Liberal Party charged, 281; equity firm founder charged, 313; subpoenas issued to investment firms in expanding probe, 334; placement agent pleads guilty, 354; Carlyle Group settles with state, will adopt code of conduct for investment firms, 365; private equity firm pays restitution for actions to attract investments, 425; 2 more defendants plead guilty, 701; private equity firm founder pleads guilty, 892
– Restitution, ordering lump-sum payment from criminal's IRA not barred by federal tax code (7th Cir.), 420

PERJURY

– Illinois Gov. Blagojevich (D) soliciting bribes for Obama Senate seat, prosecutor says Sen. Burris' statements to state legislature about contacts with governor not perjury, 464

PHARMACEUTICALS

See DRUGS

PHYSICIANS

See HEALTH CARE

PLEAS

See GUILTY PLEAS

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

– Campaign finance

See CAMPAIGN FINANCE

– Lobbying

See LOBBYING

– Telephones of Democratic Party jammed on Election Day 2002, GOP official who lacked specific purpose to cause distress acquitted (1st Cir.), 38; new indictment dismissed (D. Me.), 133; government drops prosecution (1st Cir.), 383
– Union election rigging scheme, Teamsters officials convicted (N.D. Ill.), 319; sentencing, 635
– Using public office to influence vote, charges improperly dismissed (Ala. Crim. App.), 833

POLLUTION

See ENVIRONMENT

PONZI SCHEMES

– Automated teller machines, 2 defendants charged with defrauding investors (S.D.N.Y.), 660
– Bernard Madoff

See MADOFF FRAUD

– Electronics resale business, man indicted for defrauding investors (Colo. Dist. Ct.), 410
– Embezzlement, “life coach” pleads guilty (M.D. Tenn.), 321
– Faith-based affinity fraud, pastor and sons charged (Ind. Cir. Ct.), 478
– Foreign currency investment firm owner charged with mail fraud (S.D. Fla.), 380; sentencing, 788
– Hedge fund founder and manager charged with mail fraud (C.D. Cal.), 381; guilty plea entered, 589
– Home-based operator pleads guilty to defrauding friends (S.D. Fla.), 666
– Improper use of investor funds, defendant pleads guilty (C.D. Cal.), 246; sentencing, 554
– Investment advisers

– – Deceiving investors to induce business, adviser charged (E.D.N.Y.), 241; guilty plea, 447
– – Guilty plea entered, SEC civil charges settled (D. Idaho), 551
– – Posing as adviser, defendant sentenced for mail fraud (N.D. Ga.), 251
– – Securities and wire fraud, adviser convicted (S.D.N.Y.), 281; sentencing, 450

– Money laundering, distributions to investors to give appearance of legitimacy not “proceeds” (9th Cir.), 793
– Money manager charged, settles related SEC civil charges (E.D.N.Y.), 627
– Oil and gas well projects, energy firm sentenced for selling fraudulent investments in (S.D. Ill.), 360
– Payouts from civil settlements, lawyer charged (S.D. Fla.), 851
– Political fundraiser/donor Hsu sentenced for scheme that improperly funneled money to candidates (S.D.N.Y.), 706
– Private holding company founder convicted (D. Minn.), 891
– Real estate

– – Brokerage firm owner pleads not guilty (C.D. Cal.), 30
– – Foreclosure reinstatement promoter sentenced (C.D. Cal.), 67

– Sentence of 100 years given to Cal. defendant (C.D. Cal.), 744
– Stanford Financial Group executive charged with obstructing SEC investigation (S.D. Tex.), 169; indictment, 350; Robert Stanford, 3 execs and Antiguan bank regulatory official indicted for scheme, 443; Stanford denied bail (5th Cir.), 586; chief financial officer pleads guilty (S.D. Tex.), 630; director of security charged with obstruction and destruction of records (S.D. Fla.), 660; failure to pursue whistleblower complaints cited in FINRA internal audit report, 716
– Telecommunications firm, investment manager indicted for deceiving investors (E.D. Mich.), 698

PREEMPTION

– Federal Copyright Act preempts state anti-piracy law (Ill.), 864

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

See DRUGS

PRICE FIXING

See ANTITRUST

PRIVACY

– Attorneys

– – Client privilege

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

– – Confidentiality duty, mining of metadata in electronic documents

– – – N.H. ethics opinion, 365
– – – Vt. ethics opinion, 720

– Cybercrime

See CYBERCRIME

– Data security

– – Departing employees' theft of company data, report issued, 153
– – FDIC worker indicted for disclosing information about agency and bank customer (D. Kan.), 736
– – Increasing concerns for businesses, Special Report, 607
– – Mass. issues amended rules for businesses, 609
– – Passport applications, State Dep't worker pleads guilty to accessing files (D.D.C.), 66
– – Veterans' Affairs worker sentenced for unlawful access to agency computers (Cal. Super. Ct.), 70

– E-mails from fraud victims to court, removal of personal data required before disclosure to media (S.D.N.Y.), 495
– Identity theft

See IDENTITY THEFT

– Medical records

See MEDICAL RECORDS

– Search and seizure

See SEARCH AND SEIZURE

– Trade secrets, Goldman Sachs programmer charged with stealing computer code (S.D.N.Y.), 477
– Workplace

See LABOR

PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

PROCEDURE

– Appeals

See APPEALS

– Default judgments, defendant who obtained fraudulent rulings against innocent victims violated state identity theft law (Neb.), 219
– Discovery

See DISCOVERY

– Double jeopardy

See DOUBLE JEOPARDY

– Electronic filing systems are operational in nearly all federal courts, Special Report, 81
– Evidence

See EVIDENCE

– Expert testimony

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Federal Copyright Act preempts state anti-piracy law (Ill.), 864
– Federal rules, amendments on time periods and warrants for electronically stored data approved by Supreme Court, 295
– Juries

See JURIES

– Jurisdiction

See JURISDICTION

– Limitations periods

See STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS

– Pleas

See GUILTY PLEAS

– Sentencing

See SENTENCING

– Speedy trial, right to

See SPEEDY TRIAL

– Witnesses

See WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

PROSECUTORS

See also JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)
– Brady duty to disclose exculpatory evidence not violated, convictions of Enron CEO Skilling upheld (5th Cir.), 27
– Deferred prosecution pacts

– – Reform bill to curb abuses by prosecutors

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 1947

– – Selection of federal monitors, House Democrats say law needed to prevent conflicts of interest, Special Report, 467

– Misconduct

– – Food mislabeling, businessman's convictions for misbranding salad dressing reversed (7th Cir.), 256
– – Public corruption trial of Stevens (R-Alaska), DOJ lawyers found in contempt of court removed from case (D.D.C.), 147; status hearing set, 185; case dismissed, independent probe of prosecutors' conduct ordered, 237; Attorney General Holder replaces head of DOJ ethics unit, 294; chief of DOJ integrity unit removed from Abramoff-related prosecution against House aide, 423

– Resources in public corruption cases

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 49

PUBLIC CONTRACTS

See GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

PUBLIC CORRUPTION

– Abramoff scandal

See LOBBYING

– Alaska

See ALASKA

– Bribery

See BRIBERY
– – Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

See FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

– Campaign finance

See CAMPAIGN FINANCE

– False statements and financial conflicts, prosecution against EPA employee dismissed for lack of speedy trial (D.D.C.), 385
– Honest services fraud

See HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

– Kickbacks, state officials indicted for scheme in choosing investment firms to manage public employees' pension fund (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 204; hedge fund manager pleads guilty, head of Liberal Party charged, 281; equity firm founder charged, 313; subpoenas issued to investment firms in expanding probe, 334; placement agent pleads guilty, 354; Carlyle Group settles with state, will adopt code of conduct for investment firms, 365; private equity firm pays restitution for actions to attract investments, 425; 2 more defendants plead guilty, 701; private equity firm founder pleads guilty, 892
– Lobbying

See LOBBYING

– N.J. mayors and rabbis among 44 charged in money laundering and bribery scheme (D.N.J.), 515
– N.M. state legislator sentenced for defrauding state during construction of courthouse (D.N.M.), 215
– Prosecutorial resources, bill to increase

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 49

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

See GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

PUERTO RICO

– Campaign finance, governor and assistant acquitted of illegal campaign contributions charges (D.P.R.), 282