White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

FALSE STATEMENTS

– Bank president pleads guilty to lying to FDIC (W.D. Mo.), 757
– Classified information, former NSA exec leak to newspaper reporter, indictment (D. Md.), 275
– Drug firm officer indicted in off-label marketing case (D. Md.), 795; not guilty plea, 884; Special Report, 946
– Ill., ex-Gov. Blagojevich (D) convicted of lying to FBI, mistrial declared on other charges (N.D. Ill.), 591; retrial set for early 2011, 635; deadline for prosecutor decision for retrial, 674; conviction stands, 755
– Medicare billing practices, psychiatrist pleads guilty to lying to FBI (E.D. Mo.), 729
– Passport application, tax avoidance scheme, guilty plea (W.D. Wash.), 12
– SEC whistleblower program, DOJ will prosecute for false information, 791

FCPA

See FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

FEDERAL COURTS

– Caseload, 2009 increase, AOUSC report, 228
– Federal Rules amendments, Supreme Court approval, 365
– Judicial Conf. pilot program, audio recordings on PACER, 229
– Website redesigned to increase public access to data, 405

FEES

– Attorneys

See ATTORNEYS' FEES

– Expert consulting services to defendant, ancillary jurisdiction of court to consider (8th Cir.), 570

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

See BANKING

FIRST AMENDMENT

See FREEDOM OF SPEECH

FLORIDA

– Medicaid fraud, state recovered record amounts in 2009, 609
– Mortgage foreclosures, law firms subpoenaed for alleged improper practices, 608
– Theft of GOP state party funds, chairman indicted (Fla. Cir. Ct.), 383

FOIA

See FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

FOOD

– Accounting fraud, U.S. Foodservice exec, new trial ruling (S.D.N.Y.), 68; willful violations, “conscious avoidance” theory (2d Cir.), 534
– Oil-for-Food program, kickbacks to Iraqi officials, Innospec guilty plea (D.D.C.), 211; worker pleads guilty, 467
– Ponzi schemes

– – Fast-food restaurant investment scheme, charges (N.D. Ohio), 348
– – Grocery distribution firm CEO indicted (D.N.J.), 519; guilty plea, 653
– – Grocery-diverting/food brokerage firm scheme, criminal and civil charges (D.N.J.), 274

– Price fixing, food service equipment hardware, guilty pleas (N.D. Ga.), 389; company to pay fine, 601; CEO indicted, 838

FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

– Aluminum firms' civil suit, DOJ seeks stay due to ongoing criminal investigation (S.D. Tex.), 423
– Chinese officials, Cal. telecom firm, settlement, 41
– Cross-border mergers and acquisitions, application, 264
– Daimler civil and criminal allegations, settlement (D.D.C.), 205
– Debarment of federal contractors for violations

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 5366

– Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower provisions, BNA Insights, 640
– DOJ enforcement

– – Conferees discuss, 782
– – Senate panel hearing, 860

– Electrical goods and services firm agrees to pay fine (S.D. Tex.), 695
– Electronic discovery in FCPA investigations, BNA Insights, 909
– Enforcement, DOJ and SEC expansion of theories and tools, 297
– Equipment company owner and workers sentenced for payments to Vietnamese officials (E.D. Pa.), 700
– Export firm and owners, bribery of Vietnamese government officials, guilty pleas (E.D. Pa.), 213
– Freight forwarding firm and oil firms agree to pay fines (S.D. Tex.), 802
– Haitian earthquake, rebuilding after, FCPA application, 339
– International cooperation trend, lawyers discuss, 157
– Kazakhstan oil transactions, consultant pleads guilty to minor tax charge (S.D.N.Y.), 561
– Limited partnership hiring of former foreign agent as consultant, DOJ opinion release, 636
– Medical device industry in spotlight, attorney says, 706
– Military products company execs, indictments (D.D.C.), 62
– OECD report on U.S. anti-bribery enforcement, 734; tax deductibility of facilitation payments unclear, 772
– Oil-for-Food program, kickbacks to Iraqi officials, Innospec guilty plea (D.D.C.), 211; worker pleads guilty, 467
– Panamanian officials, secret payments for maritime contracts, sentencing (E.D. Va.), 289; co-conspirator sentenced, 471
– SEC enforcement

– – Focus, report, 260
– – Transparency, rewards for cooperation by firms, conferees discuss, 784

– Strategies for companies that discover violations, conferees discuss, 900
– Technip to pay fines for payments to Nigerian officials (S.D. Tex.), 467; Dutch firm settles civil and criminal charges, 498; KBR consultant pleads guilty, 885; former vice president Cheney and company executives charged, 902
– Telecommunications

– – Alcatel-Lucent, deferred prosecution agreement (S.D. Fla.), 925
– – LatiNode executives indicted for payments to Honduran officials (S.D. Fla.), 919

– Tobacco industry

– – Alliance One pleads guilty (W.D. Va.), 562
– – N.C. firm official, guilty plea (W.D. Va.), 561
– – Universal Leaf pleads guilty (E.D. Va.), 562

– 2009 review, Analysis and Perspective, 48
– UK-based defense contractor, bribes to public officials, guilty plea (D.D.C.), 178; possible export license sanctions, 304
– Voluntary disclosure by companies, conferees discuss, 783

FOREIGN CURRENCY

See CURRENCY

FORFEITURE

– Freeze on assets for alleged violations of foreign law (D.C. Cir.), 535
– Internet gambling proceeds, U.K. firm to forfeit, 672
– Madoff Ponzi scheme, longtime investor to forfeit $625 million (S.D.N.Y.), 897

FORGERY

– Checks, labor official sentenced (N.D. Iowa), 700
– Health care, forging physician signatures and submitting false care charges, indictments (N.D. Ill.), 208
– Medicaid billing fraud, forged prescriptions scheme, sentencing (N.D. Ga.), 14

FRANCE

– Societe Generale bank employee sentenced for unauthorized trades, 731

FRAUD

– Accounting fraud

See ACCOUNTING FRAUD

– Bank fraud

See BANKING

– Below-guidelines probation sentence and restitution order (9th Cir.), 182
– Corporate fraud, defense bar preparation to fight enforcement actions, conferees discuss, 369
– Court-appointed receiver, misappropriation of funds, not guilty plea (S.D. Fla.), 129; sentencing, 530
– Credit and debit card terminal leasing scheme, sentencing (Tex. Dist. Ct.), 136
– Credit cards, intended loss, aggregate credit limits (5th Cir.), 148
– Defense contracts, charges time-barred (S.D. Cal.), 501
– Double jeopardy, bankruptcy fraud and obstruction of justice convictions (7th Cir.), 141
– Enforcement and cooperation, conferees discuss, 189
– False computer equipment replacement requests, scheme targeting Cisco, guilty plea (E.D.N.C.), 285
– Government contracts, interior design firm owner pleads guilty (D.D.C.), 629
– Health care

See HEALTH CARE

– Honest services

See HONEST SERVICES FRAUD

– Hospitality industry scheme, Mayfair group chief, sentencing (S.D.N.Y.), 354
– Kickbacks

See KICKBACKS

– Life insurance, false death benefit claim, conviction (S.D.N.Y.), 431
– Mail fraud

See MAIL FRAUD

– Medicaid fraud

See MEDICAID

– Medicare fraud

See MEDICARE

– Mortgage fraud

See MORTGAGE FRAUD

– Obstruction of justice

See OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

– Pyramid scheme, futures trading, investment manager, charges (N.D. Ohio), 243; sentencing, 630
– Real estate investments

See REAL ESTATE

– Recycling programs

– – Beverage container scheme, arrests and charges (Cal. Super. Ct.), 349
– – Electronic waste, false reimbursement claims (Cal. Super. Ct.), 623

– Restitution, abatement upon death of defendant (9th Cir.), 357
– Retaliatory liens filed against federal officials, indictment issued (E.D. Wash.), 464
– Securities

See SECURITIES

– Tax fraud

See TAX FRAUD

– Troubled Asset Relief Program funds

– – Bank president pleads guilty (S.D.N.Y.), 727
– – Corporate compliance programs needed, 609

– Visa fraud

– – Brazilian couple sentenced (M.D. Fla.), 762; co-conspirator sentenced, 889
– – Businessman indicted (N.D. Cal.), 723

– Wire fraud

See WIRE FRAUD

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

– Derivatives sales, leniency applicant communications with DOJ, FOIA exemption (D.D.C.), 252

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

– Contempt, lawyer conviction for accusatory statements about judge in pleading (Mo.), 358
– Laptop computers, warrantless border searches challenged (E.D.N.Y.), 621