By: Sara Kropf A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about my disappointment that white-collar criminal defense attorneys too often treat cooperation with the government as a default position. Well, the government just sweetened the cooperation pot a little bit more....
By: Sara Kropf I just spent $1200 to listen to the Department of Justice’s sales pitch that I should bring in my clients to confess their crimes. Let me explain. Last week was the annual ABA White Collar Crime conference in San Diego. It’s a three-day conference,...
white collar world is abuzz about DOJ’s new policy requiring companies to identify the individuals involved in wrongdoing to get cooperation credit. Joint defense agreements between companies and their executives allow the targets of a criminal investigation to work...
By: Sara Kropf Two recent appearances by high-ranking Department of Justice officials make clear that the target on corporate executives’ backs isn’t going away any time soon. On May 3, 2013, the Criminal Division’s Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman...