Don’t miss The WSJ’s article on what it characterizes as the Department of Justice’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act “crackdown”. At least 120 companies are under investigation, according to Mark Mendelsohn, a deputy chief in the Justice Department division overseeing the prosecutions, up from 100 at the end of last year. The effort began in the […]
Month: May 2009
NH Alleged Phone Jamming Case: Over?
AP reports that the federal government has dropped all remaining charges against James Tobin in the New Hampshire phone-jamming case. Tobin had already been cleared of taking part in a plot to arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote lines. The government later charged him with lying to investigators.
Guilty Plea in Reimbursement Scheme
DOJ announced that an individual pleaded guilty in a reimbursed contribution scheme. Jerry Pierce-Santos, 50, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a single-count criminal information that charged him with making $17,000 in conduit contributions to a candidate seeking election to […]