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• A Preview of Trials and Tribulations in 2010

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  While the Madoff case was resolved quickly, most white collar cases take years to emerge, and when they do it is often like watching a long freight train lumbering down the track - nothing happens quickly. With the end of the year approaching, the White Collar Watch takes a look at cases and investigations that will ...
  12 hours ago

• Vague Laws Defy the Rule of Law

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 752
  By Ilya Shapiro Following Enron’s downfall, the federal government charged company CEO Jeffrey Skilling with “honest services fraud” connected to the alleged manipulation of Enron’s market value (and other securities irregularities).  This charge — also at issue in two other cases before the Court this ...
  6 days ago

• Honest Services Gets First Day In Court

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 125
  The Supreme Court yesterday heard two arguments on Honest Services – first from Conrad Black, then Bruce Weyhrauch. The comments from the justices sound similar to language used before they clarified Collateral Estoppel in the Scott Yeager case, which effectively made it impossible for the government to retry him. ...
  2 weeks ago

• SCOTUS to Take Up ‘Vague’ Fraud Law

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The Supreme Court is set to hear three big cases charging that the anti-corruption laws are too vague and recent high-level prosecutions under them must be struck down. The law at issue, an amendment to the Wire and Mail Fraud Act of 1988 , makes it illegal for public or private employees to “deprive another of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Justices to Decide if Honest-Services Law Gives Prosecutors Too Much Discretion

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Critics say a law that has become an important tool for federal prosecutors fighting official misconduct is used too broadly.
  2 weeks ago

• Judge Ends Enron Shareholder Suit Against Banks

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Exactly eight years after Enron filed for bankruptcy protection, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by investors against banks they accused of helping the energy company commit fraud.
  2 weeks ago

• Chron Compares Skilling To Stanford, Agrees They Have Nothing In Common

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 125
  The The Chron has an article by Mary Flood comparing and contrasting the judicial treatment of R Allen Stanford and Jeff Skilling. I’m not sure of what Mary’s point is, unless it’s simply that Stanford is being treated particularly harshly – even before his trial. But by making that argument, she makes it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Birthday Wishes

  
  cara ellison — Authority: 125
  Today is Jeff Skilling’s birthday. My birthday wish for him is that next year at this time, he will be celebrating with his family, and the horror of the last eight years will be but a memory.
  4 weeks ago

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