Of course, notorious cooperation takes place in white collar cases as well.
The reason why sentences in white collar cases do not deter potential criminal conduct is that the likelihood of getting caught is so small.
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Moreover, because the marquee financial statement fraud cases of the early 2000s were a significant driver of growth in white collar defense and forensic accounting practices, the decline of those kinds of cases has been duly noted in professional circles.
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He specialized in white collar crime.
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They're on the average, less educated, concentrated in - not in white-collar jobs, but in jobs in the service industry and hotel and restaurant and hospital work and other places where the skill requirements are not so great.
Over 95% of adult Kuwaitis work for the government, usually in white-collar civil-service jobs.
They are highly educated and generally have worked in white-collar jobs, both markers for longer life.
Many families have been here for generations, and some of the younger Dharavi residents even work in white-collar jobs.
That's especially true in white-collar fraud cases, which are expensive to try and tough to explain to a jury.
Such a strategy is relatively rare in white-collar criminal cases because of the danger something will go wrong during cross-examination by prosecutors.
In white-collar prosecutions, where prosecutors are required to prove a defendant acted with intent, there can be a bigger impetus to testify about his or her state of mind.
Luckily for the government, all of these calls were recorded, so there's no dispute about what was said, which is often the first line of defense in these white collar trials.
Vagueness is a common problem in white-collar criminal cases.
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However, two-thirds of this self-selected sample were men, many of them in white-collar jobs: just the sort of chaps most likely to have a third party of their own tucked away somewhere.
"We have the government being very aggressive on the concept of criminal intent in jury charges, " said Jacob Frenkel , a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney who now specializes in white-collar defense.
Ellen Podgor, an expert in white-collar crime at Stetson University in St Petersburg, Florida, reckons that Siemens confessed all not to minimise the fine it had to pay but to avoid being barred from business with the American government.
C. has been a leader in the field of white collar defense on a scale that is unique in the U.S. legal market.
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But the cull of older workers, which started in blue-collar industries in the 1970s, spread into white-collar occupations over the next two decades.
In an unusual move by a defense team in a white-collar crime, they allowed Farkas to take the stand.
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And just like in the white-collar world, certain sacrifices lead to higher salaries.
The most important moment in a white-collar case is when federal prosecutors make the decision on whether or not to indict.
He managed to reduce injuries by 95%, to 15 lost workdays per 10, 000 employees per year, lower than the rate in most white-collar industries.
More than two dozen people were convicted as part of a probe that made extensive use of wiretaps for the first time in a white-collar investigation.
Larry Ribstein, a law professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, thinks Lay's death might provoke a reevaluation of government strategy in pursuing white-collar criminals.
On the surface this looks like another roundup of the usual Wall Street suspects involved in a white-collar crime, except for one thing, Ross Mandell is no usual suspect and he is not backing down from this fight.
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As practitioners who have represented cooperating witnesses in complex, white-collar criminal cases can attest, the lifespan of such cases typically is measured in years.
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He found it in the queues of white-collar expatriates outside pricey Chinese restaurants in Jeddah.
In fact, many of them are white-collar transfers in second or third careers.
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The organization thinks the root of the problem lies in a surplus of white-collar talent and a reluctance among small companies to hire in-house lawyers and other professionals.
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