Tagged: crime

Quick update on Garrett Bauer

September 7, 2012 at 7:16 am

My former students know a lot about Garrett Bauer, the trader that was sentenced to almost 10 years in federal prison for insider trading. I mentioned him briefly in my LA245 classes last week as well. A reporter is writing a blog about his case, and sent me the link. It is all very depressing […]

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The Love Defense.

June 12, 2012 at 8:40 pm

I would like to thank Catherine Greig’s attorney for setting women back about three decades today. Greig is Whitey Bulger’s long time girlfriend, the one that fled with Whitey and hid with him for sixteen years while the federal authorities supposedly looked for him. (I find this whole claim a bit dubious because of Whitey’s […]

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Something for Everyone in this one.

April 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm

The weird thing about being a lawyer and an ethics professor is that bad news is great news for me. So today, when splashed across the New York Times was the headline, “Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle”, I was giddy for a split second. Then I felt guilty for […]

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