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Students Irk Prosecutor With Insider Trading Query
… crackdown on insider trading, the future denizens of Wall Street have one burning question for the hard-driving federal prosecutor : What can we still get away with? During his tenure as U.S. attorney for New York's Southern District, Bharara has …
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Sex Club Shooting Case Goes to Jury for Workers' Comp Fraud Decision
… shooting outside a San Francisco sex club was work-related. Prosecutors from the Sacramento District Attorney's office allege that ..... club after Smiley had sex with the shooter's companion. Prosecutors also allege the couple lied to collect workers' compensation …
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Desperate Housewife Sentenced in Huge California Workers' Comp Scam
… and spent thousands of dollars "on jewelry, shoes, clothes and other personal items" at high-end designer stores, prosecutors said. Kile was also ordered to pay at least $2.8 million in restitution. Business Insurance is a sister publication …
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HR Chief Goes on Trial in Brocade Backdating Case
… experts agree. â Prosecutors donâ t redline company ..... is a former federal prosecutor from New York. But ..... backdating scheme, prosecutors put on some devastating ..... a trail.â That, prosecutors argue, reveals Jensenâ ..... Francisco-based former prosecutor with knowledge of the …
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Illinois Governor Said to Have Sought High-Paying Union Post
… advisers." Though an unnamed SEIU official allegedly met with Blagojevich to discuss his appointment of a Senate candidate, prosecutors did not charge the union or the official with any wrongdoing. SEIU spokeswoman Ramona Oliver said in a statement: â We …
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Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor as First Hispanic on High Court
… earned an undergraduate degree from Princeton and a law degree from Yale. Over the course of her legal career, she served as prosecutor , a corporate litigator, and a trial and appellate judge. She presided over the case involving the Major League Baseball …
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Auditors Probe U.S. Role in GM Funding of Delphi Pension Plan
… whether political considerations played a role in GMâ s decision on behalf of hourly retirees. Barofsky, a former federal prosecutor who also is conducting an investigation of possible illegal conduct by GM and Chrysler Group in their dealer reductions …
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Supreme Court Nominee's Views on Business Are Hard to Read
… she is as likely to rule in favor of companies as against them, observers say. Sotomayor, who has been both a New York prosecutor and a corporate intellectual property attorney, was appointed in 1992 as a federal judge by President George H.W. Bush …
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Benefits Administrator Charged With Taking $40 Million in Union Health Care Funds
Federal prosecutors in New York indicted a benefits administrator ..... from 2002 to 2008 for these services, prosecutors say. The 12-count indictment handed ..... wrongdoing, according to press reports. Prosecutors first unveiled the case in a criminal …
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Feds Allege Pennsylvania Staffing Firm Stockpiled Visas
… the nationâ s cap on H-2B visas, the scheme left fewer available for companies trying to bring in workers lawfully, prosecutors said. Owner and president Michael Glah is also accused of coaching immigrants to lie to U.S. immigration officials …
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Comp Cheats Confess All on Social Networking Sites
… Concepts, a Nashville, Tennessee-based third-party administrator, for example, recently referred a case to Florida prosecutors in which a claimant’s Facebook posting tipped Global Options investigators to his business of selling jerky at flea markets …
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Global Workforce ReportIndia on the Outs
… security risks. Satyam founder B. Ramalinga Raju in January confessed to grossly inflating the company’s earnings, and prosecutors have alleged the company exaggerated by 13,000 the number of employees it had. The alleged billion-dollar fraud sent …
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Bring Back the Canaries
… and BP cases, whistle-blowers are working with federal investigators. A foreman at the Massey mine is cooperating with prosecutors , but has not been identified because "speaking out is not acceptable in the culture of his company," according to a recent …
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High Court Ruling May Erode Whistle-Blower Protections
… employment law experts. In Garcetti v. Ceballos, the court ruled that the First Amendment does not shield a Los Angeles prosecutor from being disciplined for a memo he wrote to a supervisor in the course of performing his official duties. "When public …
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Palin Brings Working-Mom Issues to the Fore
… The whirlwind of topsy-turvy gender politics gusted when former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani--the macho former federal prosecutor who sent mob bosses to jail--gave the most stirring defense of Palin. "How dare they question whether Sarah Palin has …
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Delay, Dropped Charges in Ex-Brocade HR Chief's Backdating Trial Could Mean Light Sentence for Former CEO
… the original November 21 hearing, the prosecutors in the case, Assistant U.S. Attorneys ..... fine and a multiyear prison term. The prosecutors refrained from recommending a specific ..... Reyesâ defense team say they believe prosecutors have suggested to Judge Breyer that …
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Feds Get New Life in Brocade Backdating
… ruling earlier this month has given prosecutors a second wind by saying the case does ..... prosecution. On May 11, however, prosecutors caught a break as U.S. District Judge ..... problems. Since the case began, leading prosecutors have been fired or have quit. Witnesses …
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OxyContin Settlement May Curb Narcotic Use in Workers’ Comp
… Administration, along with federal prosecutors , the IRS, the Health & Human Services ..... of the $635 million total, federal prosecutors said. Use of narcotics in workersâ comp ..... we are concerned about.â Federal prosecutors said Purdue trained its sales force …
