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Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...ings would not have any direct impact on directors, it potentially opens the way for litigation and prosecution down the track. All this coincides with moves by the World Business Summit in Copenhage...
The Pirate Bay Goes to Jail
in P2P File Sharing, on April 17, 2009
The founders of The Pirate Bay were found guilty today, with a sentence of a year in prison and $3.6 million in damages. "Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in the case, along with Carl Lundström, who was accused of fundin...
Britain moves on bribery
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
...enforcement standards more like the US. Under the proposals, British companies could be liable for prosecution if they are involved in bribery activity overseas. It will be deemed to be as much an of...
Lori Drew Guilty in MySpace Cyber-Bullying Case
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 26, 2008
...ding to news sources, the Los Angeles federal court jury rejected the felony charges brought by the prosecution and instead convicted Drew of three misdemeanor charges of accessing a computer without ...
The Lori Drew Case and the Future of Anonymity on the Web
in The Social Networking Weblog, on November 18, 2008
Steven Hodson at The Inquisitr published an interesting piece yesterday on the Lori Drew case and the legal implications it may eventually have for anonymity on the web.
Lori Drew's trial began today.
Hodson (along with Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins over at Mashable) wants you to thin...
Russ Busted: Hamilton Named Behind UB Super-User Scandal
in Internet Poker, on September 30, 2008
...ntly in contact with the appropriate law enforcement agencies and intends to fully cooperate in the prosecution of all individuals involved in the UB cheating incidents.
Mr. Catania states, "My i...
Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski: still trying to get out
in Sox First, on September 3, 2008
...done three years! And he still wants out. They are drawing a long bow here, claiming that the lead prosecution witness shouldn't have been allowed to testify. And chances are the court will throw...
RIAA forced to pay
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 20, 2008
...eam; thankfully she won, and now she is taking it further, by planning a damage claim for malicious prosecution. The outcome is likely to be a massive victory for those who feel that the RIAA seems to...
RIAA finally pays fees
in P2P File Sharing, on August 20, 2008
...y with it, and this is just the tip of the iceberg; Andersen plans to sue for damages for malicious prosecution, and I'll bet you she will walk away with a big settlement!
Good on her....
BAE vows to clean up
in Sox First, on June 30, 2008
...nteresting part is the report that the Serious Fraud Office is now looking at a US-style deferred prosecution plan where companies involved in bribery abroad could avoid prosecution by admitting gui...
Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers
in I got Spam?!, on May 29, 2008
... scammers are unknown, but Yahoo claims to have information that will help them track them down for prosecution. The company is seeking an unspecified amount in damages. It is very unlikely they will ...
Corporate fraud surges
in Sox First, on April 18, 2008
...rime. These days, the perpetrators are often let off with a slap across the knuckles and a deferred prosecution agreement. It's a trend I have looked at here .
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Crooks go free
in Sox First, on April 9, 2008
...r the last three years. Instead of facing criminal charges, they are simply receive a cozy deferred prosecution agreement. And as the New York Times says, there are now questions whether the policy sh...
Conrad Black's $200 million legal bill
in Sox First, on March 16, 2008
... Black has filed an appeal claiming his trial judge misdirected jurors and was biased towards the prosecution. Lawyers think he has a snowball 's chance in hell. "The appellate court...
Cybercrime service economy
in Sox First, on February 26, 2008
...nd enabling online crime pays better than perpetrating it when you add up the risk of apprehension, prosecution and incarceration. The biggest factor driving the emergence of this new service economy...
Bad apples and bad trees
in Sox First, on February 19, 2008
...cers and company founders. Between 2003 and 2006, 31 companies or "bad trees'' avoided prosecution and in slightly over half those cases, individuals were indicted. Also, Department of Ju...
Wesley Snipes: a little guilty of tax dodging
in Sox First, on February 3, 2008
...lus legal fees, all while now carrying a criminal record. Add in the years of uncertainty that this prosecution caused Snipes, as well as the personal toll of a trial carrying the possibility of 16 ye...
Conrad Black and the ostrich defense
in Sox First, on January 21, 2008
...idence the defendant was wilfully blind to dodgy financial instructions. He will also question the prosecution's labelling of certain transactions as non-compete payments, and cast doubt on his p...
Brandi Dramabomb Explodes at 2+2
in Internet Poker, on January 19, 2008
Flipchip shows the cuteness of Brandi before she goes into fatal attraction mode.
Girls meets boy, boy meets girl, girl pretends to like boy while selling off $40,000 worth of his stuff and taking other cash along the way. Boy is sad and goes to announce it on the two plus two message boards...
New UK Rules: Chat While Driving, Go to Jail
in The Wireless Weblog, on December 20, 2007
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The UK's Crown Prosecution Service today announced a new set of guidelines stating that anyone caught driving while using a mobile phone, GPS device or MP3 player could face two years in ...
Shorter jail term for the "spiritual" Conrad Black?
in Sox First, on November 29, 2007
...s the scope of Black's fraud to be $6.1 million rather than the $32.15 million estimated by the prosecution and that he received less than $3 million in illicit funds. The prosecution has argued t...
Hacker Admits to Creating Botnets
in I got Spam?!, on November 10, 2007
...cording to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, this is the first prosecution of a hacker for this kind of activity. It probably won't be the last.
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Corporate fraud investigations fall
in Sox First, on November 5, 2007
...rs out in the field. And beginning in 2005, the Department of Justice significantly scaled back its prosecution of corporate crimes . The findings are particularly alarming with a recent study ...
Two Men Sentenced for Running International Pornographic Spamming Business
in I got Spam?!, on October 12, 2007
...ilbride and Schaffer took steps to relocate their criminal enterprise abroad in an attempt to evade prosecution. By remotely logging in to servers located in Amsterdam, the men were able to make it ap...
KPMG case - the Government strikes back
in Sox First, on October 11, 2007
...s Kaplan raising important questions about the way the US Government was abusing its powers in the prosecution of alleged wrongdoers. Kaplan made international headlines last year when he ruled that ...
KPMG judge attacks US Government
in Sox First, on October 2, 2007
...l , Kaplan raises serious questions about the way the US Government has used the threat of criminal prosecution of companies to get leverage in investigations of alleged wrongdoing by company employee...
Policing virtual crime
in Sox First, on September 25, 2007
...otential jurisdictional dilemmas: (a) because the theft occurs online, in which territory would the prosecution have to establish the theft took place? and (b) if the theft is committed by a foreigner...
"It wasn't me" says Jeff Skilling
in Sox First, on September 8, 2007
...fraudster Conrad Black who put up a motion asking for either a retrial or acquittal , claiming the prosecution had not proved its case. Now the former Enron chief executive, who was sentenced to mor...
Good night Gonzo
in Sox First, on August 28, 2007
...s and tax shelter peddlers. That said, we have seen the continuation of those cosy little deferred prosecution agreements in exchange for fines and co-operation. As Gonzales said in that KPMG deal...
Neteller To Return US Funds Soon?
in Internet Poker, on July 18, 2007
...ndent global online payments business, today announces that the Company has entered into a Deferred Prosecution Agreement ("DPA") with the United States Attorney's Office for the south...
iMEGA Challenges Legality of UIGEA
in Internet Poker, on July 15, 2007
...gainst the Act's enforcement. In other words, since the iMEGA's members could face criminal prosecution for violating the UIGEA - and since iMEGA contends the UIGEA will eventually be proven u...
Black years in jail
in Sox First, on July 14, 2007
... time. We only have to be lucky once." Yeah right! Steyn has missed the point completely. The prosecution's case was so complicated that no-one expected all the charges to get up beyond reas...
Users' Content Tastes Are Changing
in Networking for Pros, on July 6, 2007
...ll conspiracy under Texas law. The suit also accuses the RIAA of extortion, racketeering, frivolous prosecution, and seeks damages for infliction of emotional distress, and recovery of the cost of her...
Twenty things you should know about corporate crime
in Sox First, on June 19, 2007
...ing the book thrown at them, corporations are being given sweet-heart deals in the form of deferred prosecution deals and non-prosecution agreements. "You be a good boy for two years, and we'...
Securities fraud scamsters
in Sox First, on June 18, 2007
...e around, but if they show up again, you refer the matter to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution. 2 . The Securities and Exchange Commission sets up a Recidivist Task Force. 3. Mon...
Man Quarantined After Flying with TB on Two Trans-Atlantic Flights
in The Aviation Weblog, on May 29, 2007
...ly went to a New York hospital, then was flown by the CDC to the Atlanta hospital. He is not facing prosecution, health officials said.
The quarantine order was the first since 1963, when the governm...
BetonSports Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 26, 2007
...ng supplying witnesses and evidence in the pending cases against co-defendants, no further criminal prosecution will be brought in this District relative to its participation in the Kaplan Gambling En...
Conrad Black declares war on the US
in Sox First, on May 21, 2007
...ascinating stage last week with the cross-examination of Black's former partner in crime turned prosecution star witness David Radler. His testimony was make-or-break for this case so Black's ...
TRUE Sues Again
in The Dating Weblog, on April 2, 2007
...er policemen from major cities around the country who lend their expertise in support of TRUE's prosecution efforts. FULL ARTICLE @ YAHOO NEWS ...
Caught for sending 1.6 billion spams
in I got Spam?!, on January 30, 2007
IT Networks write about two South Koreans who allegedly sent out 1.6 billion spam emails over two months:
"The men, one aged 20 and the other 26 years old, are alleged to have broken the law by sending out 1.6 billion spam emails between September and December 2006. South Korean au...
Neteller's Fate
in Internet Poker, on January 17, 2007
...rence are also said to have conceded in the company's offering documents that they were risking prosecution by the US government.
Neteller was founded in 1999 and began processing internet gambl...
KPMG's get out of jail card
in Sox First, on January 4, 2007
...inal conspiracy charge against the accounting firm in an abusive tax-shelter case under a deferred prosecution agreement hatched last year with the US government. The deal was done despite the firm...
US Customers Can Unlock Their Handsets
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on November 24, 2006
...disabled or function-reduced handsets can now have the full functionality restored, without fear of prosecution, fines or being sent to jail.
Via Textually.org ....
ONLINE POKER ROOMS TO FIGHT NEW LAW
in Play Las Vegas, on October 17, 2006
...n, even if the client resides in the USA.
The actual legality of Online gambling, and the possible prosecution of Americans who engage in it are still fodder for debate, and are explored in this art...
Apple & HP: a study in contrasts?
in Sox First, on October 5, 2006
...berg . In the absence of any evidence of wrongdoing, chief executive officer Mark Hurd has avoided prosecution which, according to analysts quoted in the Bloomberg report, now allows the company to m...
TRUE Settles User Prosecution
in The Dating Weblog, on October 2, 2006
Leading Online Dating Company Improves safety for Entire Industry
TRUE 's lawsuit against a convicted felon who misrepresented himself on TRUE has been settled. He agreed to not sign up to any online dating or relationship service, do community service and pay monetary damages to b...
Frank Quattrone: why is this man smiling?
in Sox First, on August 21, 2006
...of Blog makes the point that no-one's a winner here. The Government fails to make a successful prosecution and Qattrone is up for massive costs and is left with a reputation that stinks. At the ...
Brazil Threatening To Sue Google Over Orkut?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on August 17, 2006
...ing taking the search engine giant to court.
( People's Daily Online ) Brazil's Federal Prosecution Service said Tuesday that it will sue Google Inc. this week, because the company has ref...
Will Zimmermann Emerge Again as A Hero with Zfone?
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 15, 2006
...e nearly a decade back. This gentleman who emerged as an Internet hero because of threat of federal prosecution during the 90's has again come forward to offer the same type of encrypted security ...
Flowerburger Records Fights Music Fan Lawsuits
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 2, 2006
...from p2p, not using the destructive force of litigation.
We believe the public should be free from prosecution for downloading or sharing music.
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Flowerburger Records Fights Music Fan Lawsuits
in P2P File Sharing, on August 2, 2006
...from p2p, not using the destructive force of litigation.
We believe the public should be free from prosecution for downloading or sharing music.
...
Conrad Black and the cash for peerages affair
in Sox First, on May 31, 2006
It just keeps getting better. Conrad Black, the disgraced peer and Canadian-born media mogul who now faces a multi-million fraud trial in the United States next March, has been named in letters involving the "cash for peerages" scandal now being investigated by Scotland Yard, a...
Enron and the "Ostrich Instruction"
in Sox First, on May 15, 2006
...-called "Ostrich instruction" lowers the burden of proof. But it can also backfire on the prosecution which had argued that argued that Lay and Skilling deliberately chose to lie and mislead...
"Between the RIAA and a Hard Place"
in Digital Music - The Future, on May 6, 2006
...n Op-Ed piece on the RIAA argument that having a Shared folder on your computer is sufficient for prosecution.
The summary from his article:
Elektra v. Barker won't destroy the Internet, it...
"Between the RIAA and a Hard Place"
in P2P File Sharing, on May 6, 2006
...n Op-Ed piece on the RIAA argument that having a Shared folder on your computer is sufficient for prosecution.
The summary from his article:
Elektra v. Barker won't destroy the Internet, it...
Kenny Lay's bad days on the stand
in Sox First, on April 28, 2006
...h the realisation that he is no longer in control, check the disdain the former executive shows the prosecution when he suggests Hueston wouldn't understand the stuff investors would take as a giv...
DMCA legislation: Why big business is bad government
in Digital Music - The Future, on April 16, 2006
...nst 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten's team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journali...
DMCA legislation: Why big business is bad government
in P2P File Sharing, on April 16, 2006
...nst 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten's team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journali...
KPMG's tax shelters: prosecution under fire
in Sox First, on March 31, 2006
...has not exactly covered itself in glory. But the question is whether the case is jeopardized by the prosecution over-reaching.
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Student's Online Communications Aid Criminal Charges
in The Online Universities Weblog, on March 14, 2006
... perusing the arsonists' online communications. These online conversations were later used in prosecution of the students.
"We now have law enforcement who are using Facebook postings to ...
Race-fixing investigation coming to a head
in The Gambling Weblog, on February 27, 2006
...2002 and 2004. Costs have so far exceeded £1Million. The police have sent their files to the Crown Prosecution Service. If found guilty all the Jockeys face suspension. ...
KPMG's deferred prosecution deal: what's ahead
in Sox First, on February 8, 2006
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The prosecution deal the Government struck with KPMG for it to avoid prosecution over dodgy tax shelters is coming under scrutiny . Yes, these things are inevitable when the lawyers move in. St...
Beware of Credit Card repair fraud
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on February 5, 2006
In an endless attempt to bilk us of our money, credit card repair fraud scams continue to proliferate and push us to use their "services."
In commenting upon this Caroline Mayer of the Washington Post says, "The offers to repair a person' credit are tempting--so much so that...
Enron: Causey pleads guilty
in Sox First, on December 28, 2005
...rial in exchange for a lesser prison sentence. Still, it does raise the question of how strong the prosecution's case is. As a former federal prosecutor told Bloomberg : ``Typically, you don'...
The ghost of Andersen
in Sox First, on November 23, 2005
... us, the move by ex-Andersen partner David Duncan to have his guilty plea withdrawn could hurt the prosecution of the Enron case . Dropping the case, allows Duncan to file the motion to withdraw the ...
DOES KOBE HAVE HAND TROUBLE?
in The Celebrities Weblog, on August 9, 2004
...may now have to explain his use of them off the court, in criminal court.
It seems that the prosecution has located a young woman in Florida who claims that she was the victim of Kobe's un...