White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

UNIONS

– Bribery of union officials

– – Business manager sentenced (D.N.J.), 99
– – Carpenters Union officials indicted for scheme with contractors (S.D.N.Y.), 544
– – Electrical contractor charged (S.D.N.Y.), 243; guilty plea entered, 549

– Election rigging scheme, Teamsters officials convicted (N.D. Ill.), 319; sentencing, 635
– Embezzlement of union funds

– – Bookkeeper of local union convicted (C.D. Cal.), 247
– – Business manager of local unit sentenced (D.N.J.), 99
– – Construction contractor pleads guilty (D. Kan.), 668
– – Laborers local union secretary sentenced (N.D. Ohio), 100
– – Pension fund manager pleads guilty to stealing from union's benefits plans (E.D. Mo.), 358
– – Secretary-treasurer of correction officer union pleads guilty (S.D. Ill.), 320; sentencing, 672

– Extortion, transit union officials plead guilty to scheme against school bus company owners (S.D.N.Y.), 667
– Lockout, rehiring of workers under false names and Social Security numbers, Ralphs Grocery Co. executives acquitted (C.D. Cal.), 446
– Sham consulting contracts that defrauded nonprofit group, union official pleads guilty (C.D. Cal.), 666

UNITED KINGDOM (UK)

– Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Serious Fraud Office opens investigation, 43
– Insider trading, British Financial Services Authority secures first criminal convictions, 263

UNITED STATES

– Advisory committees, lobbyists as members may be banned by White House, 721
– Armed services

See ARMED SERVICES

– Corruption

See PUBLIC CORRUPTION

– Courts

– – Electronic filing systems are operational in nearly all federal courts, Special Report, 81
– – Workload increased in FY2008, Year-End Report on Federal Judiciary issued, 44

– Employees

See GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

– Public contracts

See GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS