Fri, 03/12/2010 - 4:00pm
indictment against two executives, one consultant and two former foreign government officials in connection with alleged bribes related to discounts on telecommunications services in the Republic of Haiti. The case is significant not only because it evidences continued aggressive FCPA prosecution of individuals, but also because of the charges against foreign officials themselves.
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 2:48pm
agency’s purported failure to detect several highly publicized securities frauds, including the Madoff case. These changes included the appointment of chiefs to the Division of Enforcement’s newly created “Specialized Units,” and implementation of several procedures to encourage meaningful cooperation in SEC investigations. While these changes reflect the Enforcement Division’s continued focus on restoring its image as a premier law enforcement agency, the extent to which they impact future investigations remains uncertain.
Thu, 03/11/2010 - 1:41pm
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was arrested on December 11, 2008. The end of the Madoff scheme signaled the start of a litigation storm that will employ armies of lawyers for many years to come. |
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For nearly five years, Mr. Meyerowitz was an attorney for a prominent Wall Street law firm before founding Meyerowitz Communications Inc., a consulting company that works with some of the largest and most successful law firms in the country in the area of marketing communications law. Mr. Meyerowitz is also editor-in-chief of A.S. Pratt & Sons’ prestigious publication, The Banking Law Journal, as well as Pratt’s Privacy and Data Security Law Journal. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School. |
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Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to the 2009 annual report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints, a 22.3 percent increase from 2008. The total loss linked to online fraud was $559.7 million, up from $265 million in 2008.
The report issued yesterday by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner, Anton R. Valukas, brings to many people a concept that is not often in the public view: the bankruptcy examiner. Under Bankruptcy Code Section 1106(a)(3), an examiner who is appointed in a chapter 11 bankruptcy case.jpg)
The laws, regulations, and issues surrounding financial fraud are some of the most important concerns to businesses and banking today. 
