In the News & Around the Blogosphere

Nathan Koppel, WSJ Blog, Alleged Juror Misconduct Surfaces in Daugerdas Case; Mark Hamblett, NYLJ, Tax Shelter Defense Seeks New Trial Over Juror's Hidden Identity

KPMG Report on Fraudsters

David Abel, Boston.com, Arroyo cleared in fraud verdict

Zack Needles, Legal Intelligencer,  Ciavarella Sentenced to 28 Years in Prison - Former Judge Was One of the Key Figures In the Luzerne Co. Courthouse Scandal

John May, Daily Business Review, Are U.S. corporations becoming the world's police? 

Tiffany Hsu. LATimes, IPad covers made from Madoff's clothes are hot items

Mark Hamblett, NYLJ, Circuit Upholds Convictions Against Defense Attorney Simels

Bob Van Voris & Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg, Galleon’s Rajaratnam Loses Motion for Acquittal on Insider-Trading Charges

Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, Rajaratnam sentencing may be a fight to the death (hat tip to Tiffany Joslyn at NACDL); Walter Pavlo, Forbes, Rajaratnam Sentence Recommendations Give Judge No Guidance

NACDL Press Release, Ohio Attorney William R. Gallagher Receives Criminal Defense Bar's Top Honor (and a member of the NACDL White Collar Crime College at Stetson)

DOJ Press Release, Nautilus Hyosung Holdings Agrees to Plead Guilty to Obstruction of Justice for Submitting False Documents in a Merger Investigation

DOJ Press Release, Former Member of Virginia House of Delegates Sentenced to 114 Months in Prison for Bribery and Extortion

DOJ Press Release, Former NASDAQ Managing Director Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for Insider Trading

DOJ Press Release, Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty to Online Identity Theft Involving More Than $700,000 in Reported Fraud - Defendant Possessed Information from More Than 2,300 Credit Card Accounts

Bob Van Voris, Bloomberg, Galleon Probe’s Danielle Chiesi Must Surrender Sept. 20; Fred Strasser & Glenn Holdcraft, San Francisco Chronicle,  Galleon Probe's Danielle Chiesi Must Surrender Sept. 20

Steve Vaughan, Virginia Gazette, Hamilton receives 9.5 years for bribes

BBR Review, US Prosecutors Extend Swiss Bank Tax Probe

The Republic (AP), Federal judge refused to throw out Zach Scruggs conviction in judicial corruption case

Chad Bray, WSJ, Judge Upholds Galleon Founder's Conviction

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