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Business Crimes Bulletin

Volume 18 - Number 1 | September 2010

September Issue in PDF Format


Expanded Criminal Enforcement in the Financial-Services Industry
By David Krakoff, Samuel J. Buffone and Christopher Regan
Since the economic meltdown began in 2008, the media have waged a relentless attack on the financial industry as the greedy culprit. "So where are all the prosecutions that we were promised?" the white-collar bar has wondered.

Criminal Prosecution Under New York State’s Martin Act
By Adam S. Kaufmann and Marc Frazier Scholl
In the decades following the Great Depression, the Martin Act became a powerful tool for civil protection against fraud. By the early 1990s, the Martin Act was regularly employed against larger institutions as well as smaller fraudulent schemes.

Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Under the Obama Administration
By David Laing
Judging by the numbers, the Obama DOJ has been as active, or at least as successful, in criminal antitrust enforcement as candidate Obama promised. Criminal antitrust fines in 2009 exceeded $1 billion...

In the Courts
A look at a recent high-profile case.

Business Crimes Hotline
Recent national rulings of importance.