White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

JOB SAFETY

JOURNAL

– Ed. Note: A list of upcoming conferences and meetings appears at the end of selected issues.

JUDGES

– Case-management authority, limiting evidence to only certain victims (10th Cir.), 221
– Directory of courts, judges, and clerks published by BNA, 774
– E-mail campaign of civil litigant against judge, summary criminal contempt (7th Cir.), 439
– Recusal for bias sought in criminal contempt case against infomercial figure (N.D. Ill.), 815
– Supreme Court designation of retired justice to hear case

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 3871

JURIES

– Accounting fraud, conscious avoidance instruction (2d Cir.), 393
– Intentional use of fake SSN on IRS form, good-faith defense instruction (6th Cir.), 39
– Jury trial right, determination of amount of fine (2d Cir.), 632
– Tax evasion, accountant-reliance instruction (11th Cir.), 936
– Tax fraud, willful blindness instruction (3d Cir.), 668

JURISDICTION

– Ancillary jurisdiction of federal courts

– – Expert consultant fee claims (8th Cir.), 570
– – Expungement of acquittee FBI records (6th Cir.), 571

– Arson, federal statute, private properties targeted by federal funds (1st Cir.), 20
– Clean Water Act, wetlands enforcement cases (D. Del.), 672
– Waters, federal jurisdiction over

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 5088

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)

– Abacus subprime mortgage-related transactions, Goldman Sachs cooperation with data requests, 314
– Antitrust enforcement, evolution, conferees discuss, 191
– Appointments

– – Acting Deputy Attorney General, Grindler, 47
– – Election crimes director, Pilger replaces Donsanto, 363
– – Securities fraud task force, U.S. Attorney promotions, 263

– Budget, FY2011, proposal, 115
– Check and mortgage fraud activity, increase in incidents reported, FinCEN data, 116
– Deferred prosecution agreements

– – Accountability, GAO report, 83
– – Rejection of agreement as proof of defendant's innocent state of mind (6th Cir.), 533
– – Third-party monitors

– – – Costs of hiring monitors, DOJ sensitive to, 401
– – – Drafting of agreements, DOJ guidance, 395

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

– – Collaborative cross-agency investigations, guidance, 193
– – Memo re guidelines and local policies, 31

– FCPA enforcement, DOJ and SEC expansion of theories and tools, 297
– Financial crimes enforcement

– – Broken Trust operation results announced, 899
– – Investigation and prosecution, 372
– – Invigorated enforcement efforts described by DOJ official, 814
– – Self-reporting, companies given credit by DOJ, 812

– Fraud enforcement section, credibility and cooperation, conferees discuss, 370
– Intellectual property, domestic and international enforcement, task force, 155; U.S. attorneys and FBI special agents, increase in numbers, 334
– Parallel proceedings, civil stay during pendency of criminal case, 362
– Resources to fight financial crime

See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3995

– Stock option backdating, dismissal of suit against Broadcom Corp. co-founder, DOJ appeal (C.D. Cal.), 32; DOJ drops appeals (9th Cir.), 396
– Tax enforcement, FY2011 budget, 116