White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

WAGES

– Billing fraud, Boston “Big Dig” highway construction project

– Bonus for brokering major real estate sale for employer, worker indicted for tax evasion (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 661
– Executive compensation

See EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

– Prevailing wages, attorney pleads guilty to aiding evasion by federal contractors (E.D.N.Y.), 246
– Security contractor arrested for underpaying guards (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 663
– Worker fraud used to obtain wages, direct deposit is “use” of wires for wire fraud conviction (7th Cir.), 39

WASHINGTON, D.C.

See DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

WATER POLLUTION

See ENVIRONMENT

WIRE FRAUD

– Attorneys

– – Fake promissory notes, lawyer pleads not guilty to sale of (S.D.N.Y.), 206; guilty plea, 352; sentencing, 488; lawyer disbarred, 751
– – Stock-registration violations and price manipulation, lawyer indicted (E.D. Va.), 203

– Direct deposits of salaries that workers obtained by fraud is “use” of wires, convictions upheld (7th Cir.), 39
– Electronics retailer executive indicted for secret scheme with vendors (N.D. Cal.), 29
– Food mislabeling, businessman's convictions for misbranding salad dressing reversed (7th Cir.), 256
– Job bias plaintiffs charged with hiring man to sexually assault them in order to obtain larger settlement of civil suit (W.D. Mo.), 92; guilty pleas, 484
– Ponzi schemes

– – Above-average returns promised, investment adviser convicted (S.D.N.Y.), 281; sentencing, 450
– – Deceiving investors to induce business, investment adviser charged (E.D.N.Y.), 241; guilty plea, 447

WISCONSIN

– Identity theft, public employee who used manager's e-mail to spread defamatory claims not shielded by First Amendment from prosecution (Wis.), 493
– Law license of investment banker revoked after guilty plea to “pay to play” scheme (Wis.), 679

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

– Attorney-client privilege

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

– Expert testimony

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Perjury, Ill. Gov. Blagojevich (D) soliciting bribes for Obama Senate seat, prosecutor says Sen. Burris' statements to state legislature about contacts with governor not prosecutable, 464
– Self-incrimination, congressman cannot invoke privilege to shield records held by chief of staff (4th Cir.), 733
– Tampering with witnesses, doctor pleads not guilty to intimidating patient and employees in health care fraud probe (S.D. Ill.), 517
– Unavailable grand jury witness, prior testimony admissible under hearsay exception (9th Cir.), 166

WORKER SAFETY

See OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH