Proving a White Collar Crime

The Baltimore Sun has an interesting article (here) about the difficulties in proving a white collar crime case, including the current prosecutions of former CEOs Richard Scrushy and Dennis Kozlowski.  Blog co-editor Ellen Podgor points out the core problem with these cases, that the evidence of criminality is difficult to come by as compared to a more common street crime: "It's not like a homicide case where you have fingerprints or you have people who can testify: 'I saw him with a gun.'" (ph)