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George Bush Presidential Library - Upcoming Events
Updated: 06/03/2015 - June events at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum: Bush Birthday, Movies by the Pond and summer camp registration
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Newcastle United could be set for a new high-profile owner - WWE boss Vince McMahon.
In 2011, there were reports that the 68-year-old came close to purchasing the Magpies, although the club later dismissed the claims.
However, according to website Winner Sports, McMahon is ready to make a substantial takeover bid, with owner Mike Ashley keen to sell up.
The American billionaire wants to increase the influence of the WWE brand across the UK and he reportedly sees Newcastle as an ideal opportunity to do so.
Winner Sports even claim McMahon would be interested in putting on wrestling bouts at St. James' Park.
Over the weekend, there were reports that Toon boss Alan Pardew was on the brink, following a dismal run of results.
The 52-year-old is thought to have lost the backing of his players, with his position weakened even further by Ashley's willingness to sell.
He handed Pardew an eight-year contract in September 2012 but the Sports Direct boss hasn't watched a match at St. James' for almost six months and is now looking for a new challenge.
Whether McMahon is the man to replace him remains to be seen but there have been some brilliant reactions on Twitter to the news.
Here are a few of our favourites:
Vince McMahon buying NUFC? He will fit right in... Already looks like most of us during the last few games!! pic.twitter.com/rQaEgXZihT— The True Geordie (@TrueGeordieNUFC) February 17, 2014
If only Vince McMahon was chairman for Newcastle when Bowyer and Dyer had a fight! "you two will face each other in a hell in a cell!"— Daniel Simpkins (@DanielSimpkins) February 18, 2014
WWE owner Vince McMahon is looking at buying Newcastle United. Here's a possible XI for Newcastle next season... pic.twitter.com/GAYmrXUf6G— Footy Humour (@FootyHumour) February 17, 2014
If Vince McMahon buys Newcastle do they have to change the corner flags to turnbuckles?— Paul Robinson (@itsapablo) February 18, 2014


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Skip to comments.SARAH PALIN: Enjoy this Alaskan rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus
Posted on 12/24/2010 4:10:40 PM PST by onyx
Enjoy this Alaskan rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus assembled by the children of Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat School in the Yup'ik village of Quinhagak in Southwest Alaska. Press the pic!
Joyous Christmas PING
Palin 2012.
Perfectly stated! Merry Christmas FlingWingFlyer!!!
Merry Christmas to you and yours onyx!
Thanks for sharing!
You've got it and back to you!
Bump for later
Best "flash-mob" version so far, by far.
LOL! Great job kids!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Bookmarked ! Thank you !!!
Mark for later
Merry Christmas to you and your family onyx !!!
I just read over at C4P the village of Quinhagak has a population of 648. It located near the Bering Sea.
Merry Christmas All have a safe and joyous one with your beloved family and friend.
Peace and Prays
Merry Christmas Onyx!
If you want to get critical, the singers in the food court were disconnected, a couple of them were off time and off pitch, and the tone and delivery was way too operatic for baroque music.
The Philadelphia Opera did a much better job over at Macy's,here. Of course they have that wonderful Wanamaker's organ.
At least the kids used Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony.
I like the creative use of post office counters, sled dogs, freight containers, pickup trucks, and snowbanks. Very clever.
Future Madame President's Christmas address via Facebook.
"Merry Christmas to All!
By Sarah Palin Today at 6:50pm
Christmas is a time of sharing with family and friends. For Todd and me, that means spending time with our children, parents, grandparents, and siblings, gratefully acknowledging God's blessings and sharing them with the people we love.
Ronald Reagan said Christmas was a 'state of mind, found throughout the year whenever faith overcomes doubt, hope conquers despair, and love triumphs over hate.'
On this Christmas Eve, let's be thankful that we live in a country known for striving to embody these values. And let's be grateful for the brave men and women in uniform who have fought to defend our values and who may be spending this Christmas far from home.
On behalf of the entire Palin family, I wish you a very Merry Christmas; and may the new year let you realize the promise found in 2Timothy1:7!
- Sarah Palin
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." (Isaiah 9:6)
Merry Christmas Onyx, VR, Clyde and Palin FReepers!
Ah, thanks for the information. I pinged some of our Alaksa members and I thought they might know about the village.
A Blessed and Merry Christmas to you, my cherished friend and to everyone here and everyone on Sarah Palin's Ping List.
I hope the Palins have a Blessed and Merry Christmas... before her campaign years ahead. :)
Prayers and Hugs for all!
Merry Christmas to all........
Yours may well be the better-educated opinion, but I like the other one far better. It has more genuineness, more spirit. It moves me; the PA one does nothing for me and I've loved Handel's Messiah for decades.
PLUS the previous version *doesn't* have the Philadelpha Gay Men's Chorus.
I live in Valdez, however, I have been at Bethel and the Bering Sea villages. Let me just say that there is no part of America any more devoutly Christian than in that area. Not even the Bible belt of the south.
The impression I get, it is like stepping back in time to the Christian America say of the 19th century. Bear this in mind when you see those people doing the Hallelujah chorus, they believe every bit of it! Thank you, Sarah, from this fellow Alaskan, for putting this for the rest of America to see.
She must have just posted that. Does it need a separate posting? I think so. Thanks, ReneeLynn! BRB.
Merry Christmas, dearest you!!
Merry Christmas! I enjoyed the details, too!
Merry Christmas SandRat!
You're most welcome. I'm happy you enjoyed it, too!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas 2111USMC!!
Wonder if Todd is counting his blessings tonight?
Merry Christmas, dearest you!
Merry Christmas
Wow, that was neat. What a bunch of work went into that. If you think hearing it is great you should be one of the people singing it. I used to sing with a chorus and we sang this one at Christmas, what a rush, especially listening to the applause at the end.
Thank you for your wonderful comments! Yes, you have put it best: "it is like stepping back in time to the Christian America say of the 19th century."
I have bookmarked this thread and I need to post a thank you to Sarah on her FaceBook page!
Merry Christmas!
Love it!
I like this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU&feature=related
You made me smile!
Merry Christmas, dear jennings2004!
Yes, my stereo does go to eleven. I think I may have caused structural damage to the house...
Beautiful! Merry Christmas!
Thanks...you too...don't know what I would do to maintain my santity without you and the others here...
Oh, I meant to say: It is easy to see why the lib women don't like her....
MERRY CHRISTMAS BUDDY! And a happy and healthy new year to all of my FreeRepublic buddies!!
I posted it this morning!
Thanks very much!
Merry Christmas!
Aw. thanks for your insights!
Merry Christmas!!!
Aw, sweet you, jennings2004!
I hope you know that you're a joy here!
Thanks very much, my sweet buddy! No Crass-mas at all for me this year. Not one bit of shopping, just gifts for the little and younger ones, and money to charities otherwise. Our Republic is too over-run with Marxists, I truly believe we have to fight with all our might and also turn to prayer.I plan to eat and maybe have a drink tomorrow!
Oh and I must send you wonderful news in FR mail. Give me a second to locate the link!
Aw, I'm sorry. I didn't spot it until Sarah Palin posted the link on her FaceBook page!
Merry Christmas redpoll!
I will go shopping with my Mom on Sunday, need to get a new computer desk for my room so will check out OfficeMax and best buy to see what is available. Looking forward to your FR Mail..always looking forward to some good news :-)
Look now! Liberal heads will explode (again).
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Wolak: I'll Be Tougher, Better For Rodriguez Rematch
By Mike Coppinger
For the past few months following his fight of the year candidate with Delvin Rodriguez, Pawel Wolak has been linked to a number of opponents for the Antonio Margarito-Miguel Cotto 2 undercard on Dec. 3 at Madison Square Garden.
After all the posturing, Wolak's match will be the one everyone wanted it to be – a rematch of his draw with Rodriguez – and the New Jersey resident couldn't be happier.
"I think it worked out perfectly," Wolak told BoxingScene. "It was my idea in the very beginning, even after the [first] fight I went down to Vegas on purpose just to see if Top Rank wanted to do the fight. So I'm glad they actually finally agreed to it."
With the first fight ending in draw, Wolak vows to perform better this time around.
"I will be better, I will be tougher. I have to do better," Wolak proclaimed. "I also think that was a little bit of a freak thing with the eye (referring to the huge swelling on his eye in the bout which resembled a baseball). That doesn't usually happen. I'm definitely going to be way tougher, way smarter in this fight."
Wolak sees some weaknesses he can exploit in his opponent, but also is expecting a better Rodriguez this go around.
"I watched the fight with my trainers, we all watched the fight," said Wolak, 30. "I know Delvin Is going to be looking at things, he's going to come in better shape, he's going to come in tougher, so we gotta get it done. It's definitely going to be a battle, it's going to be an entertaining fight."
Mike Coppinger is a regular boxing freelancer for USA TODAY and Ring Magazine. He's a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America, the Ring Ratings Advisory Panel and the Yahoo! Sports Boxing Panel. Follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger.
I think Delvin won the first fight, and he was just coming back from a long layoff, so my prediction is that Delvin will now clearly beat Wolak.Comment by sebastianb7312 on 10-04-2011
Who cares? your fighting a WW.... Delvin takes it... Its funny Delvin has no comment at all, nothing to say... Pretty crazy... Than you got big mouths like Queen Khan talkin every single day lookin like a fool... LOL...Comment by mshap on 10-04-2011
I dont see it going much differently than their 1st fight -- actually I think that Rodriguez will do a little better this time, not Wolak....Comment by PRBOXINGCOTTO on 10-04-2011
Wolak has to go to the body to slow down delvin but I think delvin takes itComment by ghns1133 on 10-04-2011
he was plenty tough he just needs work on his headmovementPost a Comment - View More User Comments (5)


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Palacio De Luces
Crtra. A S - 257 - Luces - Lastres - Colunga,, 33328 Luces, Spain
Palacio De Luces
Luces, 3 km from Sales Crtra. A S - 257 - Luces - Lastres - Colunga, see on map
En la vertiente colunguesa del Sueve y a 1,5 Km. del mar. Comunicado con las diferentes ciudades asturianas por la Autovía A-8 y a tan...
En la vertiente colunguesa del Sueve y a 1,5 Km. del mar. Comunicado con las diferentes ciudades asturianas por la Autovía A-8 y a tan sólo 60 min. del aeropuerto de Asturias.
44 habitaciones (35 dobles alto standing, 5 junior suites y a 4 suites), disfrutan de excelentes vistas a la montaña del Sueve y al mar. Dotadas de baño, secador de pelo, sistema Wi-Fi y conexión para internet, caja fuerte y minibar. Algunas disponen de terraza-jardín o balcón con vistas.
Dispone además de Piscina, sauna, gimnasio, mini-golf, terrazas-solarium, restaurante, piano-bar, sala de lectura, lavandería y parking.
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En la vertiente colunguesa del Sueve y a 1,5 Km. del mar. Comunicado con las diferentes ciudades asturianas por la Autovía A-8 y a tan sólo 60 min. del aeropuerto de Asturias.from QAR365
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Mar del Sueve
Avenida Asturias, 22, 33320 Colunga, Spain
Mar del Sueve
Colunga, 1.5 km from Sales Avenida Asturias, 22 see on map
Mar del sueve offers you the best plasure but on a simple way, for guest that love the nature and would like to have a nice days. The...
Mar del sueve offers you the best plasure but on a simple way, for guest that love the nature and would like to have a nice days. The decoration is so personal each room takes the spirit of the house. Taking care in all the details to make the stance the best of the sense and plesures. Arrivals later than 18:00, please inform the hotel. Reception open until 23:00. No show reservations: 100% no show fees. Customer must call the hotel if arriving later than 7 pm. If you have not called before, in front of the Hotelthere is a phone number.
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From the irport take Cantabrico highway A8 and exit in Colunga.from QAR121
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Apartamentos Casa Ameiros
8 Campos, s/n, 36989 O Grove, Spain
Apartamentos Casa Ameiros
O Grove, 1.1 km from Sales 8 Campos, s/n see on map
This apartment complex was newly opened in 2005 and comprises a 2-storey building comprising 8 apartments, which are affiliated with a...
This apartment complex was newly opened in 2005 and comprises a 2-storey building comprising 8 apartments, which are affiliated with a hotel, which means that guests may also make use of the hotel facilities. The main building features a bicycle hire service as well as a car park.
All the tasteful apartments come with a terrace or balcony affording views out over the surrounding area. There is also a bathroom with a bathtub, a direct dial telephone and satellite/ cable TV as standard. The T2 apartments for 4 to 5 persons come with 2 bedrooms and a living room with a dining area and a sofa bed. There is also a comfortable king-sized bed in each, as well as a kitchenette with a fridge. The T3 apartments for 6 to 7 persons are similarly equipped but come with 3 bedrooms. A hire safe is standard in all rooms.
A Swimming pool is located in the well-maintained outdoor area and it is possible to kick back and relax on the sun terrace where sun loungers and parasols have been laid out around the pool. Guests may relax in the peaceful surrounds or undertake an impressive exploration tour. Pontevedra offers a diversity of options to those wishing to undertake an active holiday, for example hiking along Jacob's Way or amidst the Rías, departing from Sampaio and heading into the city. The ideal conditions prevail for canoeing, rowing and cycling, with bicycles available for hire so that guests may explore the surrounding area.
Guests are either able to cater for themselves or opt for one of the restaurants located in the surrounding area.
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This charming apartment complex lies in the northwest of the Spanish mainland in the beautiful town of Pontevedra. Located within the like-named province within the autonomous region of Galicia beside the Atlantic Ocean. The sea is just 1 km from the complex and the resort centre with its countless shopping and entertainment venues is approximately 4 km away. Art enthusiasts may pay a visit to the province museum that houses a valuable collection of works by a Celtic goldsmith as well as interesting paintings and amber collections Further monuments worth seeing include San Bartolomeo church, Santa Clara monastery and the ruins of San Domingos church. Santiago de Compostela airport is 85 km away.
Hostal El Meson
Plaza Santa Ana,, 33320 Colunga, Spain
Hostal El Meson
Colunga, 1.1 km from Sales Plaza Santa Ana, see on map
Hostal with 15 rooms which offer full bathroom, TV lounge. Located close to the beach, near the centre, in a very quiet area. Its...
Hostal with 15 rooms which offer full bathroom, TV lounge. Located close to the beach, near the centre, in a very quiet area. Its facilities include restaurant, bar, rural tourism.
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Located close to the beach, close to the town centre,
Hotel Miramar
Bajada al Puerto, s/n, 33330 Lastres, Spain
Hotel Miramar
Lastres, 3.3 km from Sales Bajada al Puerto, s/n see on map
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San Antonio, s/n, 33330 Lastres, Spain
Lastres, 3.3 km from Sales San Antonio, s/n see on map
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- Historic Building
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- Accepts Credit Cards
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Large traditional house situated in the upper part of the fishing town of Lastres.
The hotel has a lounge, reading room and a terrace with magnificent views of the fishing port and the Sueve mountain range.
Vista Alegre
Playa de la Griega, 33320 Colunga, Spain
Vista Alegre
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Entreviñes, 33320 Colunga, Spain
Colunga, 1.5 km from Sales Entreviñes see on map
Casa Rural Ablanos De Aymar
Casa De Alea S/n, 33320 Colunga, Spain
Casa Rural Ablanos De Aymar
Colunga, 5.3 km from Sales Casa De Alea S/n see on map
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Jesse Jewell (1902-1975)
Jesse Jewell is Gainesville the "poultry capital of the world." He pioneered vertical integration—the combining of all phases of the business, such as raw materials, processing, and distribution, within a single company—in the Georgia poultry industry. At the helm of J. D. Jewell, Incorporated, for more than twenty years, Jewell was a key national leader of the poultry industry. His enterprising and genial personality made him a popular figure throughout north Georgia.
One of five children, Jesse Dickson Jewell was born in Gainesville on March 13, 1902. His mother, Mary Tallulah Dickson, worked as an art teacher at Brenau College in Gainesville. Jewell's father, Edgar Herman Jewell, owned a feed, seed, and fertilizer business. He died when Jewell was only seven years old. After graduating from Gainesville High School, Jewell studied civil engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama. In 1922 he began working in the family feed business, along with his mother and stepfather, Leonard Loudermilk. In 1928 Jewell married Anna Louise Dorough, and the couple settled down in Gainesville. They had three daughters.
When his stepfather died in 1930, Jewell began managing the family business. As the Great Depression drained the company's resources, he tried a new approach to boost feed sales. He bought baby chicks and supplied them, along with chicken feed, on credit to cash-poor farmers. Once the chicks were grown, Jewell bought them back at a price that covered his feed costs and also guaranteed the farmers a profit. More and more Hall County farmers began to contract to grow chickens for Jewell.
By the late 1930s Jewell began adding the elements that would make J. D. Jewell the largest integrated chicken producer in the world. World War II (1941-45) economy gave a lift to the fledgling Jewell enterprise. By 1954 Jewell added the final touches—his own feed mill and rendering plant. This vertically integrated corporation set the standard for poultry processors everywhere, as did Jewell's trademark frozen chicken. Jewell's hiring policies were also innovative: his processing plant was among the first factories in Gainesville to hire black workers.
In the early 1950s a majority of workers at J. D. Jewell voted to unionize under Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen. However, violent attacks on union representatives by a mob, which reportedly included members of J. D. Jewell management, effectively ended the effort.
Jewell was a founder and the first president of the National Broiler Council, the president of the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, and a U.S. delegate to the 1951 World Poultry Congress. He also gained the presidency of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, which he led during the 1950s.
In the early 1960s Jewell sold his company to a group of investors. It went bankrupt in 1972, though Jewell himself never did. With his poultry fortune he established a scholarship fund at Brenau College, where he also endowed a new building for biology and home economics. Jewell suffered a stroke in 1962 and died, after an extended illness, on January 16, 1975.
Media Gallery: Jesse Jewell (1902-1975)
Further Reading
"Pioneer Broiler Industry Leader Jesse Jewell Dies," Poultry Times, January 22, 1975.
Gordon Sawyer, The Agribusiness Poultry Industry: A History of Its Development (New York: Exposition Press, 1971).
Wallace Hugh Warren, "Progress and Its Discontents: The Transformation of the Georgia Foothills, 1920-1970" (master's thesis, University of Georgia, 1997).
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My wife spoke with a woman by the name of Lizz who gave us a quote of $600, to lift the warrants and for representation fee's. We paid the $600, they lifted the warrants and told us that we would receive confirmation of a court date by mail. After about 2 weeks we never received any information. We called them and spoke with Lizz again, who advised us to continue to wait another 2 weeks for us to receive the information by mail.
Yet again we never received any information, finally after repeatedly calling Owsley and Associates we got through to a woman who seemed to have difficulty speaking and understanding English. She then transferred us to Lizz, who gave us the court time and date.
When I went to court non of the Attorney's in the court room called out for my name. I continued to wait and continued to call Owsley and Associates to try and find out who would be representing me. It was not until 4:30 in the afternoon that finally a lawyer came to me and asked me for my name and told me that he was representing me and that he would reset my court date.
After leaving the courtroom i repeatedly for days tried to get ahold of someone at Owsley and associates to find out when my reset court date would be. Finally i got ahold of Lizz and she told me to call back in 2 weeks that they would have the information then. When i called in 2 weeks she again told me to wait another 2 weeks.
We waited those 2 weeks and then we called, spoke with Lizz who told us that the court date was June 24th at 10:15. We appeared in court on that date and called Owsley and Associates and my wife spoke with a lady who did not speak any English. Who told us that my court date was not until July the 24th and she gave us the number to another attorney's office who was going to represent me in court. We then called and confirmed that the court date was for July and not June like we had been told.
I went to court that day and their was no attorney to represent me. I called Owsley and associates and no one answered. I also called the other attorney's number and got no answer. I had to sign a waiver to represent myself in court because the court clerk said that their could not be any more resets. I received a fine of $286.00, outraged with the end result i continuously called them and i finally got a hold of Lizz who advised me that the attorney was on vacation so they hired an outside lawyer to represent me and the courtroom did not accept that due to certain paperwork not being filed by Owsley and associates prior to the court date.
This law firm is very unprofessional and not once tried to contact me by any means to inform me of any information or change. I would strongly advise any one out there with any traffic tickets to stay as far away from this firm as possible.
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The guided tour at Freixenet begins with a brief audiovisual presentation of the history of a family business, followed by a visit to the old part of the cellars built in 1922. Here, the house guides will personally explain the process of cava production and give advice on serving and drinking this sparkling beverage.
You will board a small train to travel through part of the 20 kilometer underground cava cellars, arriving at the tasting room where you can taste the different cavas of the Freixenet range.
Then, we head to Sitges, one of the Catalan coast's most picturesque villages. With the Garraf massif as a backdrop, Sitges is one of the favorite tourist destinations in Catalonia. Its microclimate, with almost 300 days of sun per year, seventeen beaches, an attractive range of cultural opportunities and its exceptional cuisine and shopping options make it the perfect choice for enjoying the Mediterranean coast.
While in Sitges you will visit the Bacardi house where you will learn about the history of the most famous Caribbean family of Sitges, the Bacardi family, worldly famous for their Bacardi rum. You will learn about the Bacardi rum's history, the ingredients of rum and you will be shown how to make one of the most famous rum cocktails, the Mojito and the Cuba Libre.
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Monday, September 30, 2013
Does Government Have Cooperating Employee in J.P. Morgan Probe?
This story just in from the Wall Street Journal (subscription required).
September 30, 2013 in Investigations | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, August 29, 2013
DOJ Releases Statement on U.S.-Swiss Tax Evasion Investigations
The DOJ issued a press release today telling of "a program that will encourage Swiss banks to cooperate in the department's ongoing investigations of the use of foreign bank accounts to commit tax evasion." The release also notes that "Switzerland will encourage its banks to participate in the program." A joint statement was agreed upon by the DOJ and Swiss Federal Department of Finance." (see here). The program excludes those presently under investigation. It offers others a non-prosecution agreement under a list of terms that include, "cooperat[ion] in treaty requests for account information," "agree to pay substantial penalties," and "make a complete disclsure of their cross-border activitites." The press release notes that
"banks seeking a non-prosecution agreement must agree to a penalty in an amount equal to 20 percent of the maximum aggregate dollar value of all non-disclosed U.S. accounts that were held by the bank on Aug.1, 2008. The penalty amount will increase to 30 percent for secret accounts that were opened after that date but before the end of February 2009 and to 50 percent for secret accounts opened later than that."
It will be interesting to see how many banks come forward to obtain a non-prosecution agreement. And if they do, will the disclosures result in tax prosecutions of individuals within the U.S.
August 29, 2013 in International, Investigations, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Sideshow: DC District Court Staff's Failure to Unseal the James Rosen Affidavit
FBI Special Agent Reginald Reyes' affidavit supporting DOJ's search warrant application for Fox News Reporter James Rosen's Google email account was ordered unsealed in November 2011. But it wasn't actually unsealed by the DC U.S. District Court's staff until late May of 2013. In other words, the affidavit was only unsealed several days after AG Holder testified that, "[w]ith regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy." Once the affidavit and search warrant application were unsealed, it became clear that Holder's testimony was inacurrate, as he had personally authorized the search warrant application. See here for yesterday's post on this issue.
DC Chief Judge Royce Lamberth is not happy about his staff's failure to unseal the affidavit and related documents. Here is Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's 5-23-2013 Order expressing his unhappiness.
June 5, 2013 in Congress, Current Affairs, Investigations, Judicial Opinions, Legal Ethics, Perjury, Prosecutions, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
The Holder Mess
"Well, I would say this. With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy." Attorney General Eric Holder testifying under oath before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15, 2013.
"For the reasons set forth below, I believe there is probable cause to conclude that the contents of the wire and electronic communications pertaining to SUBJECT ACCOUNT, are evidence, fruits and instrumentalities of criminal violations of 18 U.S.C. [Section] 793 (Unauthorized Disclosure of National Defense Information), and that there is probable cause to believe that the Reporter has committed or is committing a violation of section 793(d), as an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator to which the materials relate." FBI Special Agent Reginald B. Reyes' May 28, 2010, Affidavit in Support of Search Warrant Application for Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen's Google email account. The warrant was authorized by Attorney General Holder.
Note than in addition to identifying "the Reporter" as a probable aider, abettor and/or criminal co-conspirator, the affidavit explains that the Department of Justice is not bound by the Privacy Protection Act, otherwise prohibiting warrants for First Amendment work product, precisely because "the Reporter" was "suspected of committing the crime [18 U.S.C. Section 793(d)] under investigation."
There is no doubt that AG Holder gave false testimony to House Members under oath. He is an idiot if he did so intentionally, and he isn't an idiot. What should Holder have done to fix this mess? Corrected the record, of course. In the immortal words of Richard Nixon, "that would have been the easy thing to do."
Holder should have said: "Dear Representatives Goodlatte and Sensenbrenner. I screwed up. My testimony to you is now inoperative. I forgot that I authorized this affidavit, which clearly identifies a 'Reporter' as somebody under investigation for a crime. I did not intentionally try to deceive you. My statement was careless and overbroad. Please accept my apologies."
But the Attorney General apparently cannot not bring himself to do anything as straightforward as that. Instead he spends days sending out spinmeisters, most recently, and regrettably, Deputy Assistant AG Peter Kadzik, as reported here by Sari Horwitz in today's Washington Post.
How sad. Can you imagine anything like this happending under Attorney General Griffin Bell? Bell, a genuine protector of our civil liberties, most likely would have nixed the supboena in the first place. But if Bell had authorized it, he never would have shied away from the ensuing controversy or hidden behind his DOJ underlings.
Mr. Holder has received his fair share of undeserved, demagogic criticism from the kooky right. He deserves what he's getting now.
Here is a copy of the Reyes Affidavit.
June 4, 2013 in Congress, Current Affairs, Investigations, Legal Ethics, Perjury, Prosecutions, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, March 29, 2013
White Collar Criminal Law is Heating Up?
Two news items today highlight that the white collar area continues to be a key component of the criminal justice system. In Atlanta we see a Fulton County Grand Jury issuing indictments for claims that an alleged test cheating scandal involves criminal activity. See Michael Winerip, NYTimes, Former Atlanta Schools Chief Is Charged in Testing Scandal.
And the headline of the Tampa Bay Times is FBI Raid Signals End of Universal - an article describing the FBI raid of Universal Health Care.
March 29, 2013 in Investigations, News, Searches | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
NPR's Ailsa Chang has a story, Wall Street Wiretaps: Investigators Use Insiders' Own Words To Convict
December 26, 2012 in Fraud, Investigations | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, December 17, 2012
HSBC Settlement: The Unanswered Questions
You can debate all day whether the government should allow any financial institution to get too big to fail. You can also debate whether such an institution, if it is too big to fail, should be too big to prosecute, even when it engages in blatantly criminal conduct over a lengthy period of time. However, you cannot seriously debate whether to prosecute senior bank officials of an international mega-bank who knowingly directed the criminal enterprise in question. Corporations only act through agents. Those agents are human beings.
We are not talking about technical matters here. This is not a question of whether each party to a complex transaction understood the fine print which revealed, or obscured, that an investment bank was betting against the deal it was pushing. According to the published reports and press statements, obvious narcotics-related money laundering was repeatedly facilitated by the bank, despite multiple regulatory warnings. The sources of funds connected to outlaw regimes were intentionally and repeatedly hidden. If this stuff happened, people did it. And they were no doubt high-ranking people.
No credible person will contend that the prosecution of corrupt bank officers can ever endanger the financial community. No matter how important the institution or high-ranking the officer, employees are fungible. The global financial impact of prosecuting these officers, no matter how important they think they are, will always be negligible.
Assistant AG Lanny Breuer said at his press conference that individual prosecutions were not being ruled out. (Similar statements were made at the time of the robo-signing settlement press conference, and we all know what an avalanche of individual DOJ prosecutions followed in the wake of that!) But other comments Breuer made, discussing how hard it supposedly is to prosecute the individuals involved, appear to be window-dressing rehearsals for future DOJ declinations.
Reporters should not let this issue slide into oblivion. The DOJ does not typically comment upon pending investigations of individuals. (Of course this does not stop some FBI and IRS agents from telling all of a target's friends that he is being criminally investigated, thereby ruining the target's life.) Here is an occasion where the policy should be ignored, particularly since the DOJ can comment on a pending investigation without revealing the names of the subjects and targets.
The question every self-respecting reporter should be asking AG Holder and Assistant AG Breuer is not whether individual indictments have been ruled in or out. The questions to be asked at every opportunity in the coming weeks and months are:
"What is the status of the investigation?"
"Is there really any investigation?"
"Are you treating this investigation like you treat the investigation of other individuals suspected of facilitating murder and drug crimes?"
Here is an account by Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi of his appearance on Eliot Spitzer's Viewpoint program discussing the HSBC settlement. Taibbi's account contains a link to the Spitzer interview. Hat tip to Jack Darby of Austin's Krimelabb. com for alerting me to this posting. Taibbi also has an interesting opinion piece about the HSBC settlement on his Rolling Stone TAIBBLOG.
December 17, 2012 in Current Affairs, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, International, Investigations, Money Laundering, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, November 29, 2012
BP: Can Civil Remedies Be More of a Sting
We recently saw BP settling with a record $4 billion in criminal fines and penalty. See here. And as noted then -
"The guilty plea entered by BP provides that the 'Department agrees
that, if requested to do so, it will advise any appropriate suspension or
debarment authority that, in the Department's view, the defendant has accepted
criminal responsibility for its conduct relating to the Deepwater Horizon
blowout, explosion, oil spill and response by virture of this guilty plea and
that BP is obligated pursuant to this agreement to cooperate in any ongoing
criminal investigation by the Department relating to the Deepwater Horizon
blowout, explosion, oil spill and response.' But it does state that '[n]othing
in this agreement limits the rights and authority of the United States of
America to take further civil or administrative action against the defendant
including but not limited to any listing and debarment proceedings to restrict
rights and opportunities of the defendant to contract with or receive
assistance, loans and benefits from United States government agencies.'"
Reports are showing now that it is federal regulators that are temporarily suspending BP from government contracts. Although as noted on law.com by Jenna Greene, Feds slam BP's ethics, bar oil giant from contracts it is unclear how long of a period this suspension will last. (see also Michael Pearson, CNN, The spill: How much should BP suffer?)
The real question will be whether the criminal fine or the civil suspension will carry the most deterrence and punishment. This raises an important issue of whether corporate criminal liability is really the best route, or whether civil remedies can provide better compliance with the law and regulations. Most importantly, it is good to see regulators acting. It would be even better if regulatory actions were proactive, as opposed to reactive - after something has occurred.
November 29, 2012 in Environment, Investigations, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, September 24, 2012
Deferred Prosecution Agreements - Definitely A Plus
On September 13th Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer spoke to the New York City Bar extolling the virtues of DOJ's strategy for corporate prosecutions (see here). Former co-blogger Peter Henning here, also authored an article which focuses on the use of deferred prosecution agreements by the government.
One clearly has to credit the government with raising the bar in the corporate world to comply with legal mandates. Corporations throughout the world now have strong compliance programs and conduct internal investigations when questionable activities are reported to them. Likewise, post-Arthur Andersen, LLP, corporations are shy to go to trial - although there are some who have done so successfully (e.g. Lindsey Manufacturing- see here).
When the government first started using deferred and non-prosecution agreements, in a prior administration, there were government practices that were questionable. For example, allowing for huge sums to money to go to a former attorney general as a monitor, giving a chair to a law school that happened to be the same school the US Attorney graduated from, and negotiating for continuing work with the government as part of the agreement. (see Zierdt & Podgor, Corporate Deferred Prosecutions Through the Looking Glass of Contract Policing-here) Without doubt there were terms within the agreements that needed revision. Some terms that give complete control to prosecutors in deciding who can determine breaches of agreements present problems. But many of the questionable practices are not seen in recent deferred prosecution agreements, and this is good.
Agreements that still provide an imbalance between corporate misbehavior and individual miscoduct is creates an imbalance, but much of this is created by the fact that corporations have greater resources and can control the discussion with DOJ, to the detriment of the individual. Clearly there needs to be a better recognition of corporate constituents during the internal investigations, the subject of a forthcoming article that I author with Professor Bruce Green (Fordham) titled, Unregulated Internal Investigations: Achieving Fairness for Corporate Constituents. But this issue may not be one strictly for DOJ to resolve.
What is particularly impressive about the DOJ use of deferred prosecution agreements today is that it uses an educative model to reform corporate misconduct. One can't put a corporation in prison, so with fines as the best alternative it is important to focus on motivating good conduct. Corporate deferred and non-prosecution agreements are an important step in achieving this positive result. So, it is important to credit today's DOJ with how it is tackling the problem of corporate misbehavior.
September 24, 2012 in Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Investigations, News, Prosecutions, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
IRS Whistleblower Birkenfeld Hits The Jackpot
Reuters reports here on the astounding award. Yours truly and other luminaries are quoted.
September 11, 2012 in Investigations, Prosecutions, Qui Tam, Tax | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Serious Financial Allegations Deserve Criminal Investigation
My learned and astute co-editor, Solomon Wisenberg, bridled at the thought of a criminal investigation of the Libor bank scandal (see here), which he believes will be a waste of time, and of the JP Morgan Chase trading loss (see here), which he believes lacks evidence of criminality. While I do not know enough about these matters to dispute his reasons, I nonetheless strongly believe a criminal investigation is warranted in both instances.
Financial manipulations which cost shareholders and customers of large institutions millions (or billions) of dollars require criminal investigation, and, if identifiable provable criminal wrongdoing is found, criminal prosecution. It has become clear that those institutions and their employees are incapable or unwilling to police themselves, and, as Mr. Wisenberg points out, the responsible regulatory agencies have often been asleep at the switch or even compliant.
That is not to say that every massive financial loss involves criminality or that weak or questionable criminal prosecutions should be brought to soothe the popular thirst for criminal punishment. It is not to say that genuine defenses, such as estoppel due to government approval or acquiescence, should not prevent prosecution. But for the huge financial institutions, even a penalty of almost a half billion dollars, as in the Barclays Bank "deferred prosecution" deal (effectively a "non-prosecution" deal), is merely a cost of doing business passed on to shareholders. And for many of the traders and manipulators, who always weigh risk but rarely morality, only the risk of a criminal prosecution (which for them involves potential prison sentences) will have any serious deterrent effect.
To be sure, criminal investigations, even without prosecutions, may deter innovation and creativity in financial vehicles and dealings (although I am not so sure that is a bad thing). Additionally, investigations themselves cause mental distress, potential loss of reputation, and considerable legal fees. Criminal investigations, therefore, should not be started without careful consideration by law enforcement or prosecutorial agencies. But massive losses of other people's money should almost always require an examination beyond a regulatory or civil one by our historically inept financial regulatory agencies.
Every death by other than natural causes, every fire of any proportion, and every serious automobile accident is reviewed by authorities for possible criminal prosecution. Is there any reason an unusual massive financial loss of other people's money should be exempt from scrutiny for possible criminality? I think not.
July 24, 2012 in Current Affairs, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Fraud, Investigations | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Freeh Report on Paterno Reaches Speculative But Reasonable Conclusion
Joe Paterno was buried a second time last week -- partly by a report of former judge and FBI Director Louis Freeh and partly by accounts like that of the New York Times, which in a four-column lead story headlined "Abuse Scandal Inquiry Damns Paterno and Penn State," wrote "Mr. Freeh's investigation makes clear that it was Mr. Paterno . . . who persuaded the university president and others not to report Mr. Sandusky to the authorities . . . ." (emphasis added). See here. A reading of the report, however, shows that its conclusions as to Paterno are based on hearsay, innuendo and surmise. While a report such as the Freeh Report certainly need not be based on court-admissible testimony, if indeed the evidence referred to in the report constituted the sole basis for a criminal and/or civil charge against Paterno, the case undoubtedly would be thrown out and would not reach a jury.
The relevant evidence involving Paterno is as follows:
- In May 1998, with respect to an allegation that Sandusky had showered with an eleven year-old on the Penn State campus, Tim Curley, the Penn athletic director, notified his superiors that he had "touched base" with Paterno about the incident and days later sent to them an email "Anything new in this department? Coach [Paterno] is anxious to know where it stands."
- In February 2001, after he observed Sandusky sexually molesting a youth in a Penn State shower room, Mike McQueary, a graduate assistant, reported the incident to Paterno, who told him, "You did what you had to do. It is my job now to figure out what we want to do." The following day, a Sunday, Paterno reported the incident to Curley and Gary Schultz, a Penn State vice-president. Paterno waited a day or so not to "interfere with their weekend."
- Later in the month, Graham Spanier, the Penn State president, Schultz and Curley devised an action plan which included reporting the incident to the state welfare agency. A day or so later, Curley emailed Schultz and Spanier and said that he had changed his mind about the plan "after giving it more thought and talking it over with Joe [Paterno] yesterday," and now felt that they should instead tell Sandusky to seek professional help and not report him to the welfare authorities unless he did not cooperate.
The first item, the 1998 Curley email, merely demonstrates that Paterno showed an interest in what was happening with reference to the 1998 incident, which ultimately was reported to both the welfare department and the local prosecutor and resulted in no findings or charges. Paterno reportedly in 2011, after the incident involving Sandusky's 2001 conduct and the failure to report it to authorities raised public attention, denied that he was aware of the 1998 incident. In fact, Paterno's testimony in the grand jury in which he purportedly denied any such knowledge was in response to an imprecise, general and unfocused question, and his answer was accordingly unclear. Additionally, the reported statement denying any prior knowledge was by his "family" and not by him.
In any case, while a denial, if made directly by Paterno or even an authorized agent, might arguably be admissible in court as evidence of consciousness of guilt, such evidence is weak proof of guilt since even wholly blameless people often make false statements distancing themselves from wrongdoing.
The second item, Paterno's response to McQueary is by itself of little moment and says no more than that Paterno, having been apprised of the incident, would now have to figure out what he and the others will do. Of course, one can read into that facially bland statement a more sinister meaning -- that Paterno intended to tell McQueary to remain silent. Such a meaning, however, is supported only by surmise and suspicion. The report also states that Paterno waited a day before reporting the information to Curley and Schultz so as not to "interfere with their weekends." This one-day delay is not meaningful.
The third item, Curley's change of mind after "talking it over with Joe," might, not unreasonably, albeit with a considerable leap, be construed to indicate that Paterno suggested not reporting the incident to the authorities. However, it might also be that Curley changed his mind on his own after airing his thoughts with Paterno and deciding that the earlier plan was not preferable. It is, of course, also possible that whatever Curley wrote, his mention of discussions with Paterno (without any direct or indirect report of Paterno's own views) was an attempt by Curley to minimize or shift personal responsibility from himself. In any case, any probative value this email has as to Paterno's intent is also based on speculation.
Freeh himself seems to recognize that his conclusions are far from "clear." He mentions that Curley and Schultz contended that they acted "humanely" and sought "the best way to handle vague and troubling allegations," that Paterno had told a reporter he had "backed away and turned it over to . . . people I thought would have a little more expertise," and that Spanier had denied knowledge "Sandusky was engaged in any sexual abuse of children."
He then rejects these explanations and concludes, "Taking into account the available witness statements and evidence, the Special Investigative Counsel finds that is more reasonable to conclude that, in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at the University -- Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley -- repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse from the authorities, the University's Board of Trustees, the Penn State community, and the public at large" (emphasis added). During a press conference specifically focusing on Paterno's culpability, Freeh, seemingly inconsistently with the qualified "available witness statements and evidence" language of the report, appeared to exaggerate, "There's a whole bunch of evidence here." He continued, "And we're saying that the reasonable conclusion from that evidence is that [Paterno] was an integral part of this active decision to conceal" (emphasis added).
I tend to agree that Freeh's conclusion is the "more reasonable" hypothesis, but I do so based more on a visceral feeling and some understanding of Paterno's power and status at the university than an evidentiary basis. The "facts" demonstrating Paterno's "active" role in the cover-up are insubstantial and equivocal. The case against Paterno is, as a Scotch jury might say, "not proven." Perhaps we should require more substantial proof before we topple Paterno's statue -- figuratively and actually.
July 17, 2012 in Celebrities, Current Affairs, Investigations, Media, News, Sports | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Libor: The Regulatory Mind And the Prosecutorial Mind (2)
As I mentioned here last Wednesday:
"By ignoring material financial falsehoods, the regulators and examiners allow frauds to continue and decrease the likelihood of future accountability through the criminal process."
The New York Fed's Friday data dump reveals beyond question that some of its officials, including Timothy Geithner, were aware of intentionally misreported Libors by 2008 at the latest. Today's Wall Street Journal editorial lays out the damning transcripts.
What does this mean? For openers it means that DOJ's announcement of a criminal investigation is a joke. Regulators and government officials at the highest levels knew of the misrepresentation. By not immediately raising bloody hell and putting a stop to it they either sanctioned the conduct, rendering it non-criminal, or themselves became co-conspirators.
Do you really think DOJ is about to investigate Geithner or drag him into somebody else's criminal defense? Get real. These people can't even prosecute robo-signers.
July 17, 2012 in Civil Enforcement, Current Affairs, International, Investigations, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Libor: The Regulatory Mind And the Prosecutorial Mind
The news that Barclays officials told the New York Fed in 2007 about potential problems with Libor highlights key differences between the regulatory mind and the prosecutorial mind. It also shows the difficulty in successfully prosecuting white collar fraud in the wake of regulatory incompetence.
When the typical federal prosecutor learns that a financial institution or corporation has lied, his instinct is to prove and charge a crime against the individuals responsible for the falsehood. Virtually any material lie in the context of publicly traded or federally insured entities constitutes a federal crime.
When a regulator learns that he has been lied to, the response is not necessarily the same. A famous example of this occurred during one of the SEC's many examinations of Bernie Madoff's shop. Madoff was caught flat out lying to SEC examiners. Did the scope of the examination expand? No. Were prosecutors immediately informed? No. Madoff was given a slap on the wrist. His massive Ponzi scheme continued for several years, claiming thousands of new victims.
While prosecuting S&L fraud twenty years ago, I was appalled to discover repeated instances in which the very fraud I was investigating had been contemporaneously revealed in some format to federal banking regulators and/or examiners who had often done nothing in response. This put putative defendants in the position of arguing that their frauds really weren't frauds at all, because they had not deceived anyone. They argued that the regulators knew all about their conduct and failed to act, so: 1) it wasn't deceptive conduct; and 2) they thought they had a green light going forward. Sometimes our targets and subjects were right. Sometimes they had only disclosed the tip of the iceberg.
By ignoring material financial falsehoods, the regulators and examiners allow frauds to continue and decrease the likelihood of future accountability through the criminal process.
But sophisticated fraudsters often reveal their conduct to regulators through a glass darkly. They are hoping that overworked regulators, with whom they are friendly, will miss, or misunderstand, the half-assed disclosures being made. The trick is to disclose just enough, but not too much. The typical regulator, unlike the typical prosecutor, does not distrust mankind or see a fraudster around every corner. The typical regulator has known the institution and executives he is currently monitoring for years. Often his ass has been kissed during that period in perfectly appropriate ways. He has been respected and deferred to. These intangibles, and his workload, may prevent him from noticing or following up on potential red flags.
We don't have the full story yet on what the New York Fed knew about Barclay's Libor problems, but the alacrity of the New York Fed's acknowledgement that it knew something is striking. Timothy Geithner ran the New York Fed at the time, and we know that he has never met a wrist that couldn't be slapped or a falsehood that couldn't be excused.
The question remains—how can we bridge the regulatory/prosecutorial mental divide in order to punish real corporate fraud? Here is one answer—by training regulators and examiners to have zero tolerance for misleading or obstructionist behavior. The discovery of any lie or intentionally misleading conduct by a publicly traded or federally insured institution in any context should result in immediate fast-tracking to appropriate civil and/or criminal enforcement officials and/or federal prosecutorial authorities. This does not mean that prosecution should automatically or even usually ensue. It does mean that individuals who actually know something about fraud can take a critical and timely look at red flag behavior.
Once this process is in place, it may create a business climate in which elite corporate and financial institutions, and their officers, directors, and employees, will know that lying in any form will not be tolerated. The success of such a structure depends on the DOJ green-lighting prosecutors fearless enough to investigate and charge the flesh and blood financial elites who commit fraud. Almost every indication to date (outside of the insider trading context) is that current DOJ leadership is not up to the task.
July 11, 2012 in Civil Enforcement, Current Affairs, Fraud, Insider Trading, Investigations, News | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Barclays Bank to Pay - $160 Million - as Part of Non-Prosecution Agreement
A DOJ Press Release reports, Barclays Bank PLC Admits Misconduct Related to Submissions for the London Interbank Offered Rate and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate and Agrees to Pay $160 Million Penalty
Some highlights of the press release -
- "Barclays Bank PLC, a financial institution headquartered in London, has entered
into an agreement with the Department of Justice to pay a $160 million penalty
to resolve violations arising from Barclays's submissions for the London
InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR),
which are benchmark interest rates used in financial markets around the world..."
- "To the bank's credit, Barclays also took a significant step toward accepting
responsibility for its conduct by being the first institution to provide
extensive and meaningful cooperation to the government."
- "Barclays's cooperation has been extensive, in terms of the quality and type of
information and assistance provided, and has been of substantial value in
furthering the department's ongoing criminal investigation."
- "The agreement requires Barclays to continue cooperating with the department in
its ongoing investigation."
- "As a result of Barclays's admission of its misconduct, its extraordinary
cooperation, its remediation efforts and certain mitigating and other factors,
the department agreed not to prosecute Barclays for providing false LIBOR and
EURIBOR contributions, provided that Barclays satisfies its ongoing obligations
under the agreement for a period of two years. The non-prosecution agreement
applies only to Barclays and not to any employees or officers of Barclays or any
other individuals."
Commentary - As a non-prosecution agreement it does not go through the courts and DOJ has the power to enforce or proceed should it believe there is a violation of the agreement. It also sounds like the white collar defense bar may have some new clients as the government has secured the cooperation of the company to go after individuals.
See also Jenna Greene, BLT Blog, Barclays Agrees to Pay $360M to Settle with CFTC, DOJ
over Interest Rate Manipulation
June 27, 2012 in Defense Counsel, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Investigations, Prosecutors, Settlement | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Reactions to Gupta Verdict
The jury deserves credit - they clearly evaluated all the counts as evidenced by their finding of guilt in some and not guilty in others. The judge deserves credit - Hon. Jed Rakoff is a leading scholar and superb jurist.
But should this be a crime? And exactly what is the crime? Should individuals who obtain little or no personal profit be subject to criminal penalties?
And what evidence should a jury hear during the trial? Should wiretaps that are select conversations of the government be allowed to be used against a defendant in a securities fraud case, when this crime is not included in the criminal activity of our wiretap laws (see here)?
There is an interesting interplay here. On one hand we have someone being convicted for using "secret" information - the insider trading. On the other hand we have the government using "secret" information to convict the individual - the wiretaps. I keep wondering if there is anything that can be "secret" anymore. In this information age it seems like information is so accessible that it is difficult to claim anything as being "insider."
June 19, 2012 in Investigations, Securities, Verdict | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
FBI Investigates JPMorgan Chase Trading Loss. Why?
Here is a Huffington Post piece from several days ago on the FBI probe of JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss. Can anybody tell me what the crime is here? Doesn't there have to be a potential crime before the FBI investigates? Can somebody please identify that potential crime? The probe is a farce, and the mainstream press's failure to ask the most obvious question is par for the course.
May 23, 2012 in Investigations, Media | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Should the NFL Bounty Case Be Looked at By Outside Agencies?
Some years ago, I represented a landlord who was indicted and convicted for offering a bounty to a thug if he beat up the leader of the tenants' committee, which was opposing a rent increase. This behavior does not seem all that much different from what the National Football League has alleged New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma did. Vilma, four other players, and his coach Sean Payton and others, have been disciplined by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for allegedly conspiring to offer rewards to teammates to maim opposing players, particularly star quarterbacks.
News about this alleged conspiracy has been widely publicized, but I have yet to read of any current or impending federal or state criminal or legislative inquiry. While certain violence in football is accepted, deliberate maiming goes beyond any acceptable norms. Nonetheless, it would not surprise me that neither federal nor state prosecutors, especially in the New Orleans area, where Vilma and his alleged player co-conspirators played, view such an investigation as crowd-pleasing. Realistically, it is quite possible that a New Orleans jury would nullify and acquit Vilma even if there were convincing evidence against him.
In virtually every other area of business activity where there is a tenable allegation that a person had conspired to maim a competitor or opponent, there would be a serious prosecutorial investigation. In sports, what is ordinarily considered criminality, at least physical criminality, is often given a bye.
One might think that Congress has a legitimate reason and special responsibility to investigate alleged orchestrated maiming in professional football, a national sport/business. The National Football League, as it is now, exists due to Congressional largess. Congress has given the NFL a special exemption to antitrust rules which allows it to function as a lucrative monopoly with an all-powerful commissioner. Professional football (which to my wife's chagrin I watch virtually every fall Sunday), if fairly and properly played, is a dangerous game, as reflected by the frequent injuries and limited career span of its players, and the reported unusual rates of early brain damage, suicides and deaths among its retirees. When improperly played -- played with a purpose of injuring others -- it is even more brutal.
Of course, just as an indictment might not be popular with local fans, a Congressional investigation into football brutality would probably not be favorably received by the voters back home, who like their contact sports (at least professional sports) such as football and hockey to be rough. Congress appears to be more interested in whether baseball players engage in taking illegal drugs, which, if it harms anyone, hurts only themselves or perhaps also competing players who perform at a comparative disadvantage without such presumed aids. Such an investigation also continues to feed the anti-drug attitude Congress has fostered and to justify the harsh drug laws Congress has enacted. Of course, Congress might also be gunshy in view of the embarrassment that the baseball steroid investigation and resulting Roger Clemens trial became.
This is not to say that I presume Vilma is guilty. I have not seen or heard any concrete evidence that he in fact did orchestrate a bounty program. The NFL investigation was conducted in secret and with only a sparse controlled public report by the NFL of its findings. Vilma's attorney, in a letter roughly equivalent to a motion for discovery in a criminal case, has asked for 17 points of information. The NFL's response is essentially that its special counsel, Mary Jo White, a respected and liked, and generally prosecution-minded, former United States Attorney, has reviewed the secret evidence and has found it sufficient. The NFL also claims that it had shared some of the evidence with the alleged offenders and the NFL Players Association. The association, while supporting the players' right to arbitration, presumably represents both Vilma and the alleged offenders, and is barely a substitute for a single-minded advocate on Vilma's behalf.
Thus, Vilma, subject to possible reversal by arbitration or court action, will be punished with a suspension of one year (a significant time in a football player's limited career span), and the loss of millions of dollars without even rudimentary due process. And, unlike many persons suspended or fired from jobs, Vilma is practically unable to ply his trade anywhere else besides the monopolistic NFL.
I do not know enough about the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, which apparently allows the Commissioner to be both prosecutor and judge, or about labor law to know whether Vilma has been treated properly. I do, however, have a visceral feeling that he deserves more rights than a secret investigation and a conclusory decree by a commissioner with dictatorial power.
May 15, 2012 in Congress, Current Affairs, Investigations, Prosecutors, Sports | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Tom Dewey May Be Rolling Over in His Grave
In an ironic twist, the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney's Office is investigating the recently-deposed chairman of Dewey LeBouef, the firm that still carries the name of Thomas Dewey, the near-president who rose to national prominence as a gangbusting nonpolitical Manhattan District Attorney.
The investigation, apparently based on facts brought to the District Attorney's attention by disgruntled partners as the firm teeters on the verge of extinction, concerns whether the former chairman, Steven H. Davis, committed financial improprieties. One area of investigation reportedly is whether Davis misled investors, presumably insurance companies and/or banks, about the firm's financial condition, see here, perhaps involving its commitments to highly-compensated partners, many lateral hires. American Lawyer last month announced that it was revising the figures it published based on the firm's report of its finances since those numbers differed from what the firm reported to the media. The firm defended its numbers, claiming that it used different methodologies at different times.
Certainly, different financial reports made at different times using different methodologies for different purposes may reasonably be different. And, even giving false figures to American Lawyer may not be criminal (I hesitate to state so definitively in this day of overcriminalization of law and overreaching by law enforcement). However, false statements to lenders or investors, who potentially will incur severe losses, because of the firm's inability to pay its debts, is a less certain matter.
The firm has mounted its own internal investigation -- by two of its partners. While I have no reason to believe that the investigation will be less than thorough and fair (and will likely save considerable money), the firm might have more prudently hired independent investigators invulnerable to accusations of conflict of interest, if only for public relations purposes. Of course, if the firm dissolves, any internal investigation may fall by the wayside.
May 1, 2012 in Investigations | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Ten Basic Observations About Discovery Call for New Legislation
Here are ten basic observations regarding criminal discovery. They send a loud message that the proposed Senator Lisa Mukowski (Alaska) (along with Senators Inouye, Hutchinson, Begich and Akaka) "Fairness in Disclosure of Evidence Act" legislation is needed to codify the holding in Brady and add teeth to making certain that defendants receive a fair trial.
Ten Basic Premises:
- Most prosecutors play by the rules.
- One of the rules is you have to give up Brady material.
- Brady is going to be 50 years old in 2013.
- The ethics rules require prosecutors to give up exculpatory material.
- Some prosecutors have no clue what Brady material really is.
- In some cases prosecutors can't tell if something is favorable to the defense because they don't know what the defense will be presenting.
- Discovery in national security cases, terrorism, and cases where someone will get hurt needs to be treated differently.
- The chances of prosecutors being caught if they fail to give up Brady material is slim.
- If Brady material is not given or given late, most courts will find it to be harmless error.
- The chances of a prosecutor being disciplined for not giving up exculpatory material is slim.
April 29, 2012 in Investigations, Prosecutions, Prosecutors | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)


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transitive verb present participle mimicking past tense, past participle mimicked
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- Mary screams in horror and the girls mimic her every word.
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- When he was a kid he loved mimicking people which had us in stitches.
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imitar(reproduce appearance of) camuflarse or mimetizarse adquiriendo la apariencia deExample sentences
- Weeds mimic plants, viruses trick the immune system, birds build nests and predators stalk - all engaging in strategies so successful that they look, but cannot possibly be, intentional.
- The ruse works so successfully that some 30 other non-venomous snakes have mimicked the coral snake and share similar color patterns.
- A variety of insects, including some beetles and moths, mimic bees and wasps.
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