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Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the more headline-grabbing developments in the Bernie Madoff scandal was Monday’s revelation that Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing assets. AUSA Marc Litt requested that Madoff be jailed without bail. Yesterday, Litt filed this brief with Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis, arguing that the applicable law requires Madoff’s detention. The changed circumstance, Litt argues, is the fact...
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Securities Docket (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
The AUSA handling the Bernard Madoff prosecution argued in court today that Madoff should have his $10 million bail revoked and be imprisoned as he awaits trial on a securities fraud charge. Bloomberg reports that AUSA Marc Litt stated that Madoff violated conditions of bail by transferring $1 million in valuables including jewelry. Read the Bloomberg [...]
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
For a week, it’d been all quiet on the Marc Dreier front. But now a new lawyer is set to be welcomed to the Dreier Party. The NYLJ reports that Sheila M. Gowan (University of Minnesota, Brooklyn Law) has been selected as the bankruptcy trustee in the case. Dreier, founder and sole owner of the law firm Dreier LLP — for those of you took December off — is alleged to have perpetrated a massive fraud...
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FourthAmendment.com (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
Defendant's refusal to permit officer who felt a circular tin and asked what was in it to search could not form the basis of reasonable suspicion. State v. Foland, 2008 Ore. App. LEXIS 1801 (December 24, 2008): A person's reaction to a request for consent to search is not sufficient as a matter of law to support an objectively reasonable belief of criminal activity. As here, where a person has the...
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
For law firm watchers, one of the more interesting aspects of the political scandal surrounding Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was his choice of lawyer. Five years ago, when the feds began probing various allegations of corruption, Blago and his campaign tapped Winston & Strawn’s Bradley Lerman , a former federal prosecutor in Chicago. The firm billed Blago close to $2 million in 2006 and 2007, but...
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Securities Docket (Free subscription) | 19/12/2008
Sean Patrick Casey will join law firm Mayer Brown LLP as a partner in February. The WSJ reports that Casey, an AUSA in the Eastern District of New York, is currently the deputy chief of that office’s business- and securities-fraud section. Casey previously worked for the SEC, as well. Read the WSJ article
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Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
“You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man” Reflecting on the question “Is Blagojevic nuts',” — retired clinical psychologist Judith Lown writes: I read your column with particular interest this morning because it echoed a conversation I had with a friend last night. My reaction then, as to your column, is that Blago is a classic [...]
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Dow Jones Newswires’ reporter Chad Bray recently gave us another feed from the Marc Dreier hearing, where earlier today a federal magistrate judge ordered that Dreier be detained. Click here for previous blog posts on the Marc Dreier situation. During the hearing, Dreier’s lawyer, Gerald Shargel, asked the judge to move Dreier into the general population at Metropolitan Correctional Center (pictured,...
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Muddling our way through a swamp of allegations of lawyer wrongdoing, let’s head over to Chicago, where prosecutors allege a brazen scheme of corruption cultivated by Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich. During a short federal court bond hearing yesterday, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, delivered a two-count criminal complaint against Blago alleging...
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Law Blog (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
What with pardon decisions pending and legacies to burnish, President Bush is surely busy these days. But what we didn’t know, until this executive order , issued today, crossed our desk, is that Bush is also consumed with planning for pretty, well, unlikely contingencies. Pursuant to the Federal Vacancies Reform Act , Bush has ordered that, if the Attorney General, the Deputy AG, the Associate AG,...
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Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Office of Special Counsel wants you to know that, in spite of the fact that a hand-picked loyal Bushie was using her US Attorney position as a personal feifdom, Alberto Gonzales' DOJ bears no responsibility for that fact.
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Securities Docket (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
David Z. Seide has joined international law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle as a partner in its DC office. Seide, a former AUSA in Los Angeles, joins Curtis’ Securities Enforcement practice within its White Collar Crime group. According to an announcement today by Curtis, Seide will focus his practice in three main areas: [...]
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Daemon's TV (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Watch a sneak peek NUMB3RS‘ Season 5 Episode 9, “Conspiracy Theory” airing this Friday, December 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. Read all our NUMB3RS coverage here. Episode Synopsis: “Conspiracy Theory” - The bombing of an influential charity’s headquarters forces the team to sift through various rumors about the true reach of the organization’s power, on NUMB3RS, [...]
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Securities Docket (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Joshua A. Levine has been elected as a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the law firm announced today. Levine, a former AUSA in the Southern District of New York is resident in Simpson Thacher’s New York office and is among five attorneys elected as partners effective January 1, 2009. Levine’s practice focuses on government [...]
