The Winter Olympics of Cooperation: The Bridge On The River Kwai, White-Collar Self-Image and Federal Sentencing
With all of the discussion about Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his “cooperators,” now is an appropriate time to revisit the basics of “cooperation” in...
Cooperation, and Something to Cooperate With
From The Hill: With Mueller’s probe advancing behind closed doors, it is impossible for onlookers to judge the value or extent of any one witness’s...
The Yates Memo and Three Dog Night
Deputy Attorney General YatesUnless you have been on a monastic retreat or hidden as carefully as Hillary Clinton’s email server, you have by now likely...
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty: Judge Rakoff, Eddie Coyle, Albert Camus and Sweet Dreams of Oppression
If they give awards for “Best White-Collar Article of The Year,” I wish to nominate one. And it’s not even, strictly speaking, an article only...
The Agatha Christie School of Cooperating Witnesses
From Lawrence S. Goldman and our friends at White Collar Crime Prof blog, a summary of a Second Circuit decision addressing (1) the extent to which...
For Corporate Counsel || Stalking Horses, Pitchfork Crowds, Narrow Neckties, Mr. Rogers’s Slippers and Indicted Employees: 6 Steps To Dodge Being Deweyed
You may (or may not) recall the Boy Scout Law: “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, friendly, brave, clean and...