The decision to cooperate with federal prosecutors is irreversible. Once a defendant enters a proffer session and begins disclosing information to the...
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was signed into law in 1977, the product of a post-Watergate Congress that discovered American corporations had been...
The Department of Justice will prosecute you for what your competitors also did. That is the central tension of federal antitrust enforcement, and it is...
Federal Bail and Detention Hearings \n\n The question of whether a defendant remains incarcerated before trial is resolved in a proceeding that consumes...
The Charge Precedes the Proof \n\n A federal bank fraud indictment under 18 U.S.C. Section 1344 carries a statutory maximum of 30 years in prison and a...
Federal Bank Robbery Defense \n\n The prosecution of bank robbery under 18 U.S.C. Section 2113 produces some of the most severe sentences in the federal...
The prosecution of political money has become the preferred theatre of federal enforcement, and the government does not require a conviction to destroy a...
The sentence is decided before the trial begins. That is not hyperbole. Under 18 U.S.C. 2252, a first offense for receipt of child sexual abuse material...