Criminal Prosecution, Tax Fraud, Securities Fraud

Fifth Circuit Criminal Opinions: Insights and Analyses Part III

Jackson Walker on 6/6/2025

Hello again. Below are summaries from a variety of published Fifth Circuit cases from April 2025, along with a late addition from March. One benefit of releasing the April summaries in early June is that you get the Federal...more

Notice of Appeal - Spring 2021

Cozen O'Connor on 4/16/2021

Precedential Opinions of Note - Government Must Prove Falsity Under Any Objectively Reasonable Standard - United States v. Harra (January 12, 2021), No. 19-1105 http://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/191105p.pdf Unanimous...more

2018’s Bad Guys in Energy

Gray Reed on 1/3/2019

I report herein on 2018’s parade of reprobates, rapscallions and others generally lacking in moral hygiene. We reflect on a mother’s love, corruption in Venezuela, a disloyal employee, stealing from friends, a disgraced...more

Expect Increased Enforcement Activities with DOJ’s New Fraud Task Force

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/19/2018

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the creation of a Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud. Relevant to the contracting and healthcare community, the task force is designed to strengthen the...more

2017’s Bad Guys in Energy

Gray Reed on 1/2/2018

Once again we look back at the continuing cavalcade of crooks, criminals, miscreants and, to put it kindly, morons the less intellectually gifted, who met justice face-to-face in 2017. This year’s class includes a preacher,...more

DOJ’s Prosecution Of Health Care Exec Illustrates Unique Intersection Of Securities & Employment Tax Fraud Schemes

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/25/2017

In a recent criminal prosecution of a medical doctor/entrepreneur for defrauding his company’s shareholders, the government employed a novel theory of securities fraud premised, in part, upon the defendant’s failure to pay...more