White Collar Crime Report: Index-Summary

WASHINGTON

– Gambling, internet service violation of state ban (Wash.), 633
– Occupational safety, fine imposed for fatal oil refinery explosion, 707

WATER POLLUTION

See ENVIRONMENT

WIRE FRAUD

– Bookie, disgorgement of funds to satisfy client restitution obligation (7th Cir.), 149
– Energy CFO, taking firm money for own investment, guilty verdict (W.D. Okla.), 175; sentencing, 849
– Fake promissory notes, sale to hedge funds, broker sentencing (S.D.N.Y.), 254
– False investment return guarantees, lawyer not guilty plea (N.D. Cal.), 168
– Federal sentencing guidelines, tax loss calculation by extrapolation, unfairness of sample (4th Cir.), 147
– Foreign currency Ponzi scheme, indictment (M.D. Fla.), 33; conviction, 526; sentencing, 931
– Health insurance, bogus claim filing, chiropractor and health club co-owners, criminal charges (E.D. Pa.), 208
– Intent to harm victims named in indictment (7th Cir.), 703
– Investment fraud scheme, indictments (N.D. Ill.), 690
– Mortgages, filing of fraudulent applications (10th Cir.), 572
– Natural gas transactions, Dynegy exec conviction (U.S., rev den), 80
– Ponzi schemes

– – Illegal immigrants targeted, indictment (S.D.N.Y.), 95
– – Single fax from victim, use of wires (5th Cir.), 110
– – Theft from pension funds and clients, investment adviser guilty verdict (E.D. Mich.), 319

– Prime bank trading program scheme, indictment (M.D. Fla.), 8
– Public corruption

– – Former Detroit mayor indicted (E.D. Mich.), 463
– – Va., former secretary of finance sentenced for stealing state funds (E.D. Va.), 848; correction, 890

– Restitution, victim refusal, payment to Crime Victims Fund (10th Cir.), 143
– Software reseller misrepresentations to obtain Microsoft discount prices (9th Cir.), 664
– Stock-registration violations and price manipulation, Dallas lawyer, guilty verdict (E.D. Va.), 100
– 1031 exchange Ponzi scheme, Vesta Strategies owners, not guilty pleas (N.D. Cal.), 34
– Violation of underlying law or regulation (9th Cir.), 106

WIRETAPPING

– Attorney-client privilege, wiretap evidence barred from Renzi (R-Ariz) embezzlement trial (D. Ariz.), 421
– E-mail message interception, Wiretap Act liability (7th Cir.), 665
– Exclusionary rule, suppression for violation of recording and sealing requirements (2d Cir.), 573
– Insider trading, Galleon Management hedge fund

See INSIDER TRADING

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY

– Attorney-client privilege

See ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE

– Expert testimony

See EXPERT WITNESSES

– Medicaid billing fraud, opinion testimony of health care workers (6th Cir.), 441
– Medicare billing fraud, opinion testimony of HHS special agent (N.D. Cal.), 431
– Perjury, contractor association official pleads guilty in Carpenters union racketeering case (S.D.N.Y.), 758
– Price fixing defendant must defend witness tampering charges (E.D. Pa.), 466; attorney-client privilege does not bar testimony of corporate counsel, 523; CEO sentenced for obstruction of justice, 933
– Securities fraud defendants may admit former directors' SEC testimony (E.D.N.Y.), 465

WORKER SAFETY

See OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH