John is someone who made it from the blue-collar world into the white-collar world with a blue-collar attitude.
By counting each e-mail sent by a white-collar wrongdoer as a separate case of wire fraud, prosecutors can threaten him with a gargantuan sentence unless he confesses, or informs on his boss.
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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He told a former Merck colleague about the prison-stripes comment, and a month later the colleague referred him to a lawyer--Elizabeth Ainslie, a white-collar lawyer who had run the criminal fraud section in the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's office.
If the bail had not been accepted, the ex-CEO faced jail time in New York City's infamous Riker's Island--not nearly a white-collar country-club joint.
Let's say you perform white-collar work of a kind that doesn't require you to meet with customers or coworkers regularly.
Having been a part of a white-collar crime myself, I know there are a number of victims that go beyond the people deceived and the money taken.
If you are a white-collar professional, odds are you have committed at least a federal felony or two just in the course of doing your job, or so Harvey Silverglate argues in his brilliant and disturbing book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
Over 17, 000 people are calling for an investigation into the prosecution of Sholom Rubashkin, which I frankly knew nothing about but seems to have involved a 27-year sentence for a first offense in a case of white-collar crime.
Singapore is an achievement-oriented society, and the goal of many parents is for their children to secure a white-collar job.
The White-Collar Crime logo on a hat is a must-have for the Harvard Club squash courts.
People who worked for the state, in state-owned companies or in state-approved collectives, enjoyed cradle-to-grave benefits ranging from housing, education and health care to a generous pension scheme, with an official retirement age of 55 for men and 50 for women for manual workers (but five years more for white-collar workers) and a replacement rate of about 80% of final salary.
Over them he buttoned a cuff-frayed and graying black cassock with its faint stink of him, waisted it with a hand-wide black cincture, snapped on a starched white Roman collar, and laced on his ankle-high black walking shoes.
When a white-collar felon, or any felon, returns to society they are often viewed with skepticism.
It plans to open a boutique cinema, live music venues and a white-collar boxing club by 2018.
In an unusual move by a defense team in a white-collar crime, they allowed Farkas to take the stand.
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Steve Feldman, a white-collar defense lawyer and former US Attorney from New York, thinks hedge funds are being targeted.
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The most important moment in a white-collar case is when federal prosecutors make the decision on whether or not to indict.
"A creeping buildup of bad information isn't helpful" in getting convictions, said Peter Henning, a white-collar-crime legal scholar at Wayne State University.
Lawyers are always wondering what to get that client who is about to do some time in Club Fed for a white-collar crime.
The elderly lobby groups represent a white-collar view of the world.
Last year, both Ford and General Motors took bold new steps by offering lump-sum payments to white-collar retirees in lieu of a monthly pension check.
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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.
However understandable these tactics may be at getting to the bottom of solving a crime, they are a part of the punishment of a white-collar perpetrator.
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Naturally, the West family hopes to see Mr. Bailey spend the rest of his life in prison, but that is not a typical sentence for a white-collar criminal.
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That week, Mr. Morse was in rehearsals exploring key moments in "Tom Durnin, " in which he plays the title character, a white-collar criminal returning to his family after time in the clink.
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Now, the same tactics that propelled Spitzer to national prominence as a white-collar crime fighter and political do-gooder have mired him in the most perilous and humbling moment of his political career.
Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, and others at the investment bank have hired a white-collar criminal defense lawyer whose past clients include an Enron accounting officer and former WorldCom CEO, Bernard Ebber.
"He is someone who is capable of thinking on his feet, so he could be a formidable witness and he could be his own best advocate, " said Roland Riopelle, a white-collar-crime defense lawyer in Manhattan.
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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