Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Mythili Raman, the Justice Department’s top criminal attorney, is leaving the agency next month following high-profile cases of corporate misdeeds, Reuters reports. Raman is a 17-year veteran of the department and once acted as chief after her predecessor, Lanny Breuer, stepped down last year. Raman said she’s not sure what’s next in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A defense lawyer whose expertise is white-collar crime was nominated Tuesday to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s criminal division, the New York Times reports. President Obama nominated Leslie R. Caldwell, a former federal prosecutor who worked in the Northern District of California and the Eastern District of New York….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department is working on a deal that would reduce the prison sentence of former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling, the Los Angeles Times reports. Skilling was convicted of insider trading, securities fraud and conspiracy, among other charges, in 2006. His attorney has been trying to overturn the conviction ever…
By TOM FOWLER HOUSTON CHRONICLE When Mike Anderson launched the FBI’s investigation of Enron’s collapse in early December 2001, he thought assigning a couple of agents to the case would be a good start. “I knew it was going to be a big case,” said Anderson, assistant special agent in charge of the white-collar crime…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Andrew Weissmann, a private lawyer who once served as the former director of the federal government’s Enron task force, and who also previously served as FBI Director Robert S. Mueller’s special counsel, will become the FBI’s new general counsel, according to the Am Law Daily reported. The publication reports that Weissman…
The ruling by the Supreme Court could spell trouble for some federal cases. It will also change the way federal prosecutors charge certain defendants, though some had started to look at different ways in anticipation of the ruling. By Robert Barnes Washington Post WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Thursday restricted one of federal prosecutors’ favorite…
