In the News & Around the Blogopshere

Carl Lietz, Federal Criminal Lawyer Blog, Federal Criminal Rules Should Require Prosecutors To Turn Over Witness Lists

DOJ Press Release, UBS AG Admits to Anticompetitive Conduct by Former Employees in the Municipal Bond Investments Market and Agrees to Pay $160 Million to Federal and State Agencies

DOJ Press Release, Pharmaceutical Giant, Serono, Agrees to Pay $44.3 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case

Jenna Greene, BLT Blog, BP Agrees to Pay $25 million for 2006 Alaskan Oil Pipeline Spill

Boston.com (AP), Jury picked in ex-Mass. speaker's corruption trial

Tony Mauro, BLT Blog, Stevens Criticizes Ruling on Prosecutorial Immunity

DOJ Press Release, Two Miami-Area Corporations Plead Guilty to More Than $200 Million Medicare Fraud

John Eligon, NYTimes, Former Aide to Rangel Pleads Guilty in Tax Case (w/ a hat tip to Ivan Dominguez)

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP Press Release, Leading SEC Enforcement Attorney Christian R. Bartholomew Joins Weil

Margie Manning, Tampa Bay Business Jrl, WellCare Health Plans Settles Civil Actions, Enters Corporate Integrity Agreement

Mark Hamblett, NYLJ, law.com, Ex-Winston & Strawn Partner Pleads Guilty to Role in Swindling Celebrities

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