White-Collar Crime Prof Blog
Covers news, prosecutions, investigations, settlements and issues relating to white-collar crime.
Author: Ellen S. Podgor is an associate dean of faculty development and distance education and a law professor at Stetson University College of Law. Podgor also contributes to Law School Innovation.
Blawg Related Categories: Criminal Justice • Prosecutors • White Collar Crime • Law Professors • Securities Law • Stetson University • Law Professor
Recent Posts from White-Collar Crime Prof Blog
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Former CEO Refco Sentenced to Long Prison Term
Former CEO of Refco, Phillip Bennett, was sentenced today. The Wall Street Jrl article by Chad Bray is titled, "Ex-Refco CEO Bennett Sentenced To 16 Years in Prison for Fraud." Bennett plead guilty (see here)…
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In the News
Amir Efrati, Wall Street Journal, has a fascinating piece titled, A Look at Judge in Bear Case: He's Fair, Funny and Frank. Efrati looks at the judge that will preside over the case of the…
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Samuel Israel III- "Alive and Well, and [Now] Living in" Prison
Samuel Israel III turned himself into authorities. See David Abel & Todd Wallack, Boston Globe, Swindler Who Faked Death Surrenders in Southwick, Judge Rejects Request To Go To Medical Center. Samuel Israel III, although now…
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Zach Scruggs Gets Time
Dan Slater's, Wall Street Jrl post is titled, Zach Scruggs Gets 14 Months, Though Gov’t Suggested Probation, and the title says it all. Usually one receives a benefit for a guilty plea, and the prosecution…
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The Future of White Collar Investigative Reporting
The diminishing print media is pretty frightening. It seems like every day one opens the newspaper to find another paper laying off people, consolidating, offering buyouts, and basically cutting back. The dismal economy coupled with…
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In the News & Blogosphere
Karen Donovan, Conde Nast Portfolio.com, The Unknown Milberg Carrie Johnson, Washington Post, A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud - Whistle-Blower Suits Languish at Justice Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 Former Tufts Administrators Are Accused of…
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In the News
Ashby Jones, Wall Street Jrl, Scruggs Gets Maximum Five-Year Sentence Paula Reed Ward, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, House panel subpoenas Wecht prosecution documents; Jason Cato, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Congress subpoenas Wecht, Siegelman documents; Subpoena from U. S.…
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Day Two of the National Institute on Cyberlaw
Guest Blogger - Whitney Scott - A 3L at Stetson University College of Law - Day two of this year's National Institute on Cyberlaw started with a very informative session on digital forensics, or what…
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In the News & Blogosphere
Phillip Inman, Guardian, UK is weak on tackling white collar crime and short sellers, says HBOS chairman Martha Neil, ABA Law Journal News, Ex- Prosecutor: DOJ Destroyed My Career Lawrence Hurley, Washington Briefs, Leahy Reveals…
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Recent Scholarship
Plea Bargaining's Survival: Financial Crimes Plea Bargaining, a Continued Triumph in a Post-Enron World LUCIAN E. DERVAN Affiliation Unknown Oklahoma Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 2007 Abstract: This article examines the war on…