White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

NEVADA

– Lobbying, Ensign (R-Nev), DOJ will not prosecute, 898

NEW JERSEY

– Campaign funds, use to pay for politician's defense of corruption charges (N.J.), 217
– Employee privacy in personal e-mail sent to lawyer on company laptop

– – Home health care exec (N.J.), 292
– – Prosecutor (N.J.), 44

NEW YORK

– Bribery

– – False reports, N.Y. City crane inspector, guilty plea (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 253; crane company owner pleads guilty, 388; sentencing, 701
– – Honest-services fraud, former state senate GOP leader, sentencing (N.D.N.Y.), 354

– Computer access without authorization, employer keylogger installation and e-mail monitoring (N.Y. Crim. Ct.), 317
– Congressional ethics, Rangel (D-NY) temporarily steps aside, 187; Rangel charged with violations, 540; delay of trial, 705; guilty on 11 counts, 793; censure recommended, 855; House votes to censure, 897
– Crane collapse, owner and mechanic, indictment (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 169
– Credit cards with predatory lending rates promoted by health care providers, N.Y. attorney general investigating, 555
– Embezzlement, newspaper union, ex-president (S.D.N.Y.), 7; guilty plea, 322
– Fatal building collapse, owner and contractor, not guilty verdict (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 352
– Kickbacks, public employees' pension fund, scheme to choose investment firms to manage, agreements, 114; more agreements, 154; state official, guilty plea (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 174; probe widens, 206; former Hevesi aide properly charged (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 560; Comptroller Hevesi pleads guilty, 727; consultant pleads guilty, 842
– Medicaid fraud

– – Control unit, record number of convictions in 2009, 302
– – Disqualified person control of firms involved in billing fraud (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 531
– – Pharmacist indicted for false billings (N.Y. Sup. Ct.), 799

– Tax evasion

– – Ex-President of N.Y. City Council pleads guilty (S.D.N.Y.), 846
– – Failure to file state tax returns, 18 arrests, 115

– Tax fraud, former N.Y. City police chief Kerik, sentencing (S.D.N.Y.), 138
– Trademark counterfeiting, Ford auto parts, conviction upheld (N.Y.), 853

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

– Federal sentencing guidelines, charitable organization enhancement, expansive view (9th Cir.), 110
– Sham consulting contracts that defrauded nonprofit group, labor union official sentenced (C.D. Cal.), 631
– Tax fraud

– – Former Detroit mayor indicted (E.D. Mich.), 463
– – Rabbi, fake charitable contributions conspiracy, sentencing (C.D. Cal.), 14

NORTH CAROLINA

– Campaign finance reporting violation, ex-Gov. Easley (D) pleads guilty (N.C. Super. Ct.), 845
– Tax evasion, aide to former governor, guilty plea (E.D.N.C.), 284