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As you can see, the File hasn't been updated in a while. I have been distracted with other matters. Please check back for updates down the road.

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RED COLLAR CRIME? -- "That would be white collar crime that results in injury or death."

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UNCOVERING HUMAN TRAFFICKING -- Authorities said nine people were arrested Thursday as investigators broke an international sex-trafficking ring that smuggled Asian women into the U.S. in shipping containers.Seven conspirators in a "highly organized national network prostitution ring" were arrested in Seattle and two in Los Angeles, the U.S. attorney's office said.According to court documents,

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SETBACK FOR AIPAC SPY CASE DEFENDANTS -- "A U.S. judge refused on Thursday to dismiss charges accusing two former pro-Israeli lobbyists of violating the espionage law, clearing the way for a trial in a case involving classified defense information."

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BRITISH FREEZE ASSETS -- Acting under the instruction of the chancellor, Gordon Brown, and on the advice of the police and security services, the bank froze the assets of 19 of those arrested yesterday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up passenger jets leaving UK airports for the US.It acted under powers granted by the United Nations to tackle the financing of terrorism in the wake of

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COMVERSE OPTIONS SCHEME -- "Describing a brazen scheme to manipulate the granting of options, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged three former executives of Comverse Technology with mail, securities and wire fraud yesterday. The three executives, prosecutors said, used fictitious employees to create a secret slush fund of options to be distributed to favored employees." See also WaPo.

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TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES -- I'll be tied up with other matters over the next week, so blogging will be very light.

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QUICK BITS -- Pump & Dump indictments -- "This just in: eight brokers have been indicted in an alleged 'pump-and-dump' scheme to artificially inflate the stock of Stratus Services Group Inc., a New Jersey temporary-staffing company. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced the news at a press conference this afternoon."WSJ Law Blog Backdating Roundup. Speaking of which, "A

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DOJ UNDER PRESSURE -- "The Justice Department is coming under intense pressure to soften some of the tactics it embraced in the early half of the decade, when a spate of corporate fraud put the conviction of white collar criminals at the top of the Bush administration's law enforcement agenda."

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AND YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A BAD DAY -- "Yesterday was a scorching day around the country (100 degrees in NYC!), but it was a chilly one for federal white-collar prosecutors. First, an appeals court largely overturned the convictions of several ex-Merrill employees connected with Enron. And for the first time, the government lost a New York Stock Exchange trading case."

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LANDIS DOPING UPDATE -- "After spending several days in New York, Floyd Landis has returned home to Southern California, where he will await his fate as Tour de France champion. But antidoping officials working on his case already have evidence that some experts say is convincing enough to show that Landis cheated to win the Tour, regardless of further testing or appeals." See also In the

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MUCH TO LOVE & HATE IN HOUSE PENSION BILL -- The bill's main focus is defined-benefit retirement plans. Employers are not putting enough money into these plans to fund the pension promises they've made: The gap is estimated to be $450 billion. When firms go into bankruptcy, they often terminate their underfunded pension plans and hand the wreckage over to the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp

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COX ANNIVERSARY AS S.E.C. CHAIR -- In an hour-long interview yesterday, Cox continued that tradition, speaking in measured tones on some of the most hotly contested issues before the SEC, including whether the agency should oversee investment pools known as hedge funds and how it should respond to complaints from trade groups about the expense of accounting rules."We're trying to go right down

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IRAQ AUDIT MIXED -- The United States has completed 82 percent of its planned projects, having spent $15 billion. Those funds have brought oil and electricity production above prewar levels. They have given 5 million more people access to sanitized water. And they have paid for more than 1,200 security facilities such as fire and police stations.The reconstruction program, though, is also

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PENTAGON DECEPTION IN 9/11 PROBE? -- "Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate."

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FRIST DISCLOSURES PROBED -- Frist and his wife are the sole trustees in charge of a family foundation bearing the senator's name, according to Internal Revenue Service forms. However, he has not been listing that position on his Senate disclosure forms, which are made public every year.Annual forms detailing lawmakers' personal finances are supposed to list all positions members of Congress hold

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LANDIS DOPING ALLEGATIONS -- "Tests performed on the cyclist Floyd Landis’s initial urine sample showed that some of the testosterone in his body had come from an external source and was not produced by his system, according to a person at the International Cycling Union with knowledge of the results." See also WaPo.Similarly, "In the wake of Justin Gatlin’s positive drug test, some in track and

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MORE CUNNINGHAM SCANDAL FALLOUT -- "The Pentagon has decided not to renew a contract with a company caught up in the scandal involving former House member Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-Calif.), forcing the closure of an intelligence center in Virginia that grew out of a 2003 'earmark' in legislation by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Va.)."

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MASSIVE TAX CHEATING -- "Wealthy Americans avoid paying $40 billion a year in U.S. taxes through illegal offshore havens that could be tamed with mandatory financial reporting and stronger penalties, according to a Senate investigative report to be issued Tuesday." See also NYT; WaPo.

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EBBERS CONVICTION UPHELD -- "A federal appeals court upheld the fraud conviction of WorldCom Inc. founder Bernard J. Ebbers yesterday, rejecting defense arguments that he was deprived of a fair trial and paving the way for the once-brash mogul to spend the rest of his life in prison." See also WSJ Law Blog.

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CAPTIOL HILL RAID UPDATE -- "A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that prosecutors may not examine documents seized from Rep. William J. Jefferson's Capitol Hill office until the congressman has a chance to review them for privileged legislative materials."

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HOMELAND SECURITY FUNDS MISSPENT -- "Virginia distributed federal homeland security grants to local governments sloppily in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, and a few of them, including Fairfax County, misspent the funds, according to an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general."

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SILICON VALLEY'S LAWYER -- Powerful, but discreet. Powerful, but rarely center stage. While Mr. [Larry] Sonsini is hardly a shrinking violet, he cultivates the image of Silicon Valley’s most ubiquitous supporting player, often preferring to say his lines behind the scenes. “It’s not my job to be in the newspapers,” he said in a telephone interview Wednesday. “I think my clients like me to be a

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ACCOUNTING FRAUD IN IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION -- "The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and knowingly withheld information on schedule delays from Congress, a federal audit released late Friday has found."

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DOPING AT TOUR DE FRANCE -- Before setting out on the Alpine stage that became the high point, then the nadir of this year’s Tour de France, Floyd Landis went through his usual ritual with his physiologist, Allen Lim.Sitting in a team bus festooned with sponsors’ logos, the pair took turns reading dark, humorous quotations from a book by Jack Handey while listening to Metallica.“He told me that

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