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HENNING ON THE WHITE COLLAR WATCH AT THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Peter Henning is a professor of law at Wayne State Law School in Detroit.

He teaches courses in white collar crime, corporate law, and professional ethics – among others.

But just recently, Henning started to blog at the New York Times.

He calls it – White Collar Watch.

And he’s raising questions that the white collar world would prefer not to hear.

Like – do deferred and non prosecution agreements do any good?

Or are they just a means for corporations to buy their way out of potential liability?

Well?

We asked Henning last week to answer his own question.

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GREENBERG TRAURIG’S SKLAIRE ON THE SHIFT IN TONE AT THE SEC
WASHINGTON, D.C., FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Robert Khuzami is a former federal prosecutor.

And he’s bringing a prosecutor’s touch to his new job – head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement division.

Khuzami wants deferred prosecution agreements.

He wants non prosecution agreements.

And he wants first in the door immunity.

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BIRKENFELD CONSIDERS GOING PUBLIC WITH NAMES OF CLIENTS
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 22, 2010

Bradley Birkenfeld sits in a federal prison near Minersville, Pennsylvania.

As he sits and contemplates his release date – November 29, 2012 – he’s asking himself – should I release the names of my UBS clients?

Many of the UBS clients he worked with were famous people whose names the American people will recognize.

Birkenfeld blew the whistle on one of the largest corporate crimes in history.

Birkenfeld was a Swiss banker.

He worked for one of the world’s largest banks – UBS.

He sat at the North American UBS desk with 45 other individual bankers.

The clients?

Billionaires and millionaires from the United States seeking to dodge the IRS.

In total, 19,000 clients in North America.

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EPSTEIN BECKER’S STUART GERSON ON THE STEVENS CASE AND WAYWARD JUSTICE
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 19, 2010

The prosecutorial misconduct by Justice Department prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case and other recent white collar cases sticks in the craw of a whole generation of white collar lawyers.

Earl Silbert.

Bob Bennett.

And Stuart Gerson.

A former federal prosecutor, Gerson is now a partner at Epstein Becker & Green.

“We knew the rules,” Gerson told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “We knew – even at a young age – that we had tremendous power.”

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BREAK UP THE BIG FOUR AUDIT FIRMS?
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 13, 2010

The Big Four audit firms – KPMG, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Deloitte – audit the financial statements of nearly all the global public companies in the world.

And arguably they are the only audit firms able to do so.

And there is a real fear that the Big Four might become the Big Three – or maybe even the Big Two.

Is that too much concentration?

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LEWIS MORRIS V. MALCOLM SPARROW -- HOW MUCH HEALTH CARE FRAUD?
WASHINGTON, D.C., JANUARY 4, 2010

Some experts say health care fraud hovers around three percent of all health care expenditures.

Three percent of $2 trillion: $60 billion.

But Malcolm Sparrow says the number is probably much higher.

Sparrow is a professor of public management at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School.

He believes the number could be as high as 20 percent.

Or even 30 percent.

That would be more like $400 billion.

Or $600 billion.

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