White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

PANAMA

– Bribery of Panamanian officials, secret payments for maritime contracts, FCPA sentencing (E.D. Va.), 289; co-conspirator sentenced, 471

PENSIONS

– Embezzlement from landscape firm employee benefit plan, indictment (M.D. Pa.), 349
– Fraud against security guard pension plan, union treasurer indicted (D.D.C.), 495
– Garnishment of defendant's benefits to satisfy restitution order (5th Cir.), 702
– 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
– Ponzi scheme, theft from funds and clients, investment adviser guilty verdict (E.D. Mich.), 319

PHARMACEUTICALS

See DRUGS

PHYSICIANS

See HEALTH CARE
– Medicare fraud

See MEDICARE

PLEAS

See GUILTY PLEAS

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

– Campaign finance

See CAMPAIGN FINANCE

– Lobbying

See LOBBYING

POLLUTION

See ENVIRONMENT

PONZI SCHEMES

– Accountant sentenced (E.D. Cal.), 390
– Accounting firm general partner charged (S.D.N.Y.), 519
– Automated teller machines, defendant convicted (S.D.N.Y.), 803
– Bernard Madoff

See MADOFF FRAUD

– Cal. operator, sentencing (C.D. Cal.), 103
– Debentures, motion for separate trials (W.D.N.Y.), 841
– Electronics distribution scheme, sentencing (S.D.N.Y.), 699
– Entertainment industry scheme, investment adviser sentencing (C.D. Cal.), 254
– Financial services firm owner, fast-food restaurant investment scheme, charges (N.D. Ohio), 348
– Foreign currency

– – Fla. resident arrested (S.D.N.Y.), 797
– – Foreign exchange firm violation of injunction barring withdrawal of funds, criminal contempt (W.D.N.C.), 430
– – Futures, no-risk trading scheme, charges (D. Minn.), 243; guilty plea, 283
– – Phony trader, sentencing (E.D.N.Y.), 215
– – Trading strategy scheme, indictment (M.D. Fla.), 33; conviction, 526; sentencing, 931

– 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
– Haitian-Americans, scheme targeting, guilty plea (S.D. Fla.), 13
– Hedge funds

– – Disbarred lawyer/fund manager sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 760
– – Founder and manager, mail fraud, sentencing (C.D. Cal.), 38

– High-interest car loans, indictment (M.D. Fla.), 836
– Illegal immigrants targeted, indictment (S.D.N.Y.), 95
– Insurance investment business, charges filed (N.D. Ill.), 753
– Investment adviser, indictment (E.D. Pa.), 243; (D.N.J.), 692
– Japanese-based scheme, DOJ announces recovery of proceeds, 400
– Jewelry businessman indicted (S.D. Fla.), 385; sentencing, 889
– Money laundering of proceeds (5th Cir.), 604
– Oil and gas wells, sentencing (E.D. Tex.), 731
– Online advertising scheme, indictment (D.D.C.), 881
– Payouts from civil settlements, charges against lawyer, guilty plea (S.D. Fla.), 66; sentencing, 422; officer of law firm sentenced, 730
– Police officer indicted for defrauding public employees (N.D. Ohio), 425
– Private holding company founder, sentencing (D. Minn.), 288; restitution proposal denied, 429
– Real estate schemes

– – Guilty plea (S.D.N.Y.), 657; sentencing, 890
– – Indictments (N.D. Ill.), 796

– Spanish-speaking investors targeted, guilty verdict (C.D. Cal.), 99; sentencing, 324
– Stanford Financial Group scheme

– – Directors and officers defense costs, insurer continued payment (5th Cir.), 219
– – Obstructing SEC investigation, not guilty verdict (S.D. Tex.), 130

– Tax evasion

– – Genesis Fund distributions, guilty plea (C.D. Cal.), 287; sentencing, 565
– – Surplus property scheme, guilty plea (C.D. Cal.), 844

– 1031 exchange scheme, Vesta Strategies owners, not guilty pleas (N.D. Cal.), 34
– Theft from pension funds and clients, investment adviser guilty verdict (E.D. Mich.), 319
– Uniform purchase broker scheme, criminal complaint (D. Mass.), 33
– Westgate Capital president sentenced (S.D.N.Y.), 759

PRICE FIXING

See ANTITRUST

PRIVACY

– Aliens, personal data disclosed by Utah state workers, 542
– Attorneys, confidentiality duty, mining of metadata in electronic documents (Minn. Op.), 333
– Bank customers

– – Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, BNA Insights, 950
– – Records protected under Ill. Constitution (Ill. App. Ct.), 854

– Bullying video internet posting, Italian prosecution of Google execs, guilty verdict, 134; opinion released, 302
– Data security, FDIC worker, disclosure of confidential information about agency and bank customer, guilty plea (D. Kan.), 321
– E-mail

See E-MAIL

– FBI contract linguist, classified information leaked to blogger, guilty plea (D. Md.), 13
– HIPAA violations

– – Pa. hospital worker indicted (W.D. Pa.), 650
– – UCLA hospital researcher guilty plea (C.D. Cal.), 70; sentencing, 326

– Insider trading, DOJ and SEC staff allegedly leaked confidential information in Galleon case, 396
– Misuse of official information, nurse's report to state medical board, acquittal (Tex. Dist. Ct.), 132
– Search and seizure

See SEARCH AND SEIZURE

– Trade secrets

See TRADE SECRETS

– WikiLeaks internet posting of classified government documents, House Judiciary Comm. hearing, 940

PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS

– Act of production privilege, one-person corporations (2d Cir.), 109; guilty plea, 351
– Attorney-client privilege

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

PROCEDURE

– Appeals

See APPEALS

– Continuance to allow defendant to visit dying son (9th Cir.), 668
– Discovery

See DISCOVERY

– Double jeopardy

See DOUBLE JEOPARDY

– Evidence

See EVIDENCE

– Expert testimony

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Federal Rules amendments, Supreme Court approval, 365
– Juries

See JURIES

– Jurisdiction

See JURISDICTION

– Limitations periods, defense contract fraud charges time-barred (S.D. Cal.), 501
– Preemption, Copyright Act preempts state anti-piracy law (Ohio Ct. App.), 670
– Sentencing

See SENTENCING

– Severance of securities fraud trials (W.D.N.Y.), 841
– Venue for aggravated identity theft prosecution (2d Cir.), 667
– Witnesses

See WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

PROSECUTORS

See also JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (DOJ)
– 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

– Securities, civil frauds unit established by U.S. attorney in New York, Special Report, 709

PUBLIC CONTRACTS

See GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

PUBLIC CORRUPTION

– Alaska

See ALASKA

– Bribery

See BRIBERY
– – Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

See FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT (FCPA)

– Campaign finance

See CAMPAIGN FINANCE

– Former Detroit mayor indicted for fraud (E.D. Mich.), 463
– 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
– 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
– Lobbying

See LOBBYING

– Va., former secretary of finance sentenced for stealing state funds (E.D. Va.), 848; correction, 890

PUBLIC EMPLOYEES

See GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES