In the News & Around the Blogosphere

500 Pearl Street, The Top White Collar Cases of 2012

Labaton Sucharow, SEC WhistleblowerAdvocate, SEC Sanctions Database 

A. Brian Albritton,  False Claims Act & Qui Tam Law Blog, Wake Up Call for Those Asserting Broad Privilege Claims: U.S. ex rel Kalid-Kunz v. Halifax Hospital

T. Markus Funk, Perkins Cole, Deconstructing the Executive Order Against Trafficking in Persons in Federal Contracting 

Brandon L. Garrett, Huffington Post, A Christmas Carol for Bankers

David Barstow & Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab, NYTimes, The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Got Its Way
in Mexico

DOJ Press Release, Amgen Inc. Pleads Guilty to Federal Charge in Brooklyn, NY.; Pays $762 Million
to Resolve Criminal Liability and False Claims Act Allegations

DOJ Press Release, Justice Department Recovers Nearly $5 Billion in False Claims Act Cases in Fiscal Year 2012 Largest Annual Recovery in Department History Department Also Sets Records for Health Care and Mortgage Fraud Recoveries And Recoveries in Whistleblower Suits

Todd Bussert, Federal Prison & Post Conviction Blog, Helping Organizations That Help Federal Prisoners

Jenna Greene, BLT Blog, Eli Lilly Settles SEC Case Involving Overseas Bribery Violations

Ryan McConnell, Dianne Ralston & Charlotte Simon, Corporate Counsel, What Computer Models Can—and Can't—Do

Steven Ramirez, Corporate Justice Blog, LAWLESS CAPITALISM and HSBC

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