Podcast - “I Lied Like a Dog!”
Sittenfeld v. United States – Campaign Contributions as Crimes?
Podcast - Persistence and Determination
Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 12, 2025
RICO Section 1962(b): Acquisition or Maintenance of Control Over Legitimate Enterprises — RICO Report Podcast
Podcast - The Seeds of Corruption
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
Daily Compliance News: June 16, 2025, The Golden Share Edition
The JustPod: Defending the "Evil Genius:" A Conversation with Leonard Ambrose
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 62 - The Tragic Toll of Conspiracy Theories: The Seth Rich Story
SBR-Author’s Podcast: The Unseen Life of an Undercover Agent: A Conversation with Charlie Spillers
Podcast - "Ready for Trial?"
Podcast - The Law as a Force for Change
The JustPod: A Discussion with Defense Counsel Rocco Cipparone and Angie Levy on January 6 Prosecutions
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
The JustPod: A murder-for-hire allegation, public corruption trial, and notable acquittal
Podcast - Every Case Is a New World
On March 21, 2025, a unanimous Supreme Court overturned a false statement conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1014 holding that the statute requires false, and not merely misleading, statements to certain federal agencies including...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in two cases: Ellingburg v. United States, No. 23-3129: This case addresses the Ex Post Facto Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which the government...more
The Supreme Court refusing to hear a case is nothing new, but an otherwise run-of-the-mill denial of the cert petition in Franklin v. New York, 604 U.S. ____ (2025) was accompanied by statements from Justices Alito and...more
In 2004, Appellant, Brenda Andrew was convicted in Oklahoma of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder for participating in the homicide of her husband to collect his life insurance policy. Andrew was...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Andrew v. White, No. 23-6573: In this case, the Court addressed whether the State violated petitioner Brenda Andrew’s due process rights when, during her...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC, No. 21-1270: This bankruptcy case involved the interpretation of Bankruptcy Code § 363(m) and its...more
On Friday, January 11, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following eight cases: Fort Bend County v. Davis, No. 18-525: Whether Title VII’s administrative exhaustion requirement, 42...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in three cases yesterday: Rippo v. Baker, No. 16-6316: Petitioner Michael Damon Rippo moved to disqualify the Nevada state judge who presided over his criminal...more
On June 27, 2016, the United States Supreme Court unanimously vacated the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on corruption charges and remanded the case for retrial. As discussed below, the impact of the...more
Last week, in McDonnell v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the bribery convictions of Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia. In doing so, the unanimous Court rejected prosecutors’ expansive...more
In a recent opinion, Williams v. Pennsylvania, --- S.Ct. ----, 2016 WL 3189529 (June 9, 2016), a divided United States Supreme Court held that judges must recuse themselves in cases in which they previously played a...more
Not all of the justices would put it that way. To be fair to the dissenters, and because his version is shorter, we’ll use Justice Thomas’s description of the underlying facts from his dissent in Williams v. Pennsylvania,...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in three cases on June 9, 2016: - Dietz v. Bouldin, No. 15-458: An automobile accident case went to a jury trial in federal district court. Respondent Hillary...more
Dear Friends, After returning from a two week trip to China to work on the Solar Cells case, this March blog post will cover trade policy, including Trump’s impact on Trade Policy, trade, Customs, False Claims Act, the...more
Whenever an employer is considering disciplining an employee for misconduct, three names from 1967, 1975 and 1985 continue to be associated with employer investigations and interrogations, in much the same way that Mr....more