Paul Manafort: Tort Prosecuting Case

The indictment states that in June of 2011, Paxton was engaged in fraud by the offer for sale of common stock for Servergy. He is accused of not disclosing that he was not personally invested in Servergy and that he received compensation for soliciting investors in the form of 100,000 shares of Servergy stock. He is accused of encouraging people to invest more than $600,000 in Servergy without disclosing he made a commission. (Source)

The charges included conspiracy, money laundering, obstruction of justice and perjury (Johnson & Johnson, 2005, p. 37).

The following case is one of the most famous white-collar crime cases known to date. Enron Corporation was an American energy company based out of Houston, Texas. Kenneth Lay formed Enron in 1985 after a huge merger. Over time Enron’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and other corporate executives misled auditors and the board of directors in major financial transactions. Thus, $11 million dollars was lost by shareholders after Enron’s stocks dramatically fell in the end of 2001. Enron was then bankrupt. In this case, many Enron executives were sentenced to prison, a rare punishment for white-collar crime. As a result of this incident, the Sarbanes- Oxley Act was enacted. This act ensured that there would be

Both men have been indicated on a series of tax crimes, all of which are no where near connected to Trump.

Along with the house and yacht bribes mentioned above, there were also a used Rolls-Royce, jewelry, antique furniture, Persian rugs, and even a $2,000 contribution for his daughter’s graduation party. With all this evidence present, Cunningham's attorney, Mark Holscher, was the one to advise Cunningham with a guilty plea. This would set the maximum sentence at 10 years versus a life sentence. With his plea, Cunningham also forfeited his $2.5 million dollar home, his antiques, rugs, $1.8 million in cash, other miscellaneous items, and agreed to help with the prosecution of others that were involved in the defense contractor scandal. By the end of the year, Cunningham resigned from the House. By resigning, he had saved himself from being limited due to the Ethics Committee and, most likely, would have been expelled from the House and would have also lost his subcommittee chairmanship. (Nation Master,

District 125 argues that they are immune from liability pursuant to 3-106 of the tort immunity act. Section 3-106 of the Tort Immunity Act provides immunity to recreational facilities where the basis of liability is based upon the existence of a condition of any public property intended or permitted to be used for recreational purposes. 745 ILCS 10/3-106 (emphasis added). However, Illinois courts have created exceptions to this rule. In Rexford v. City of Springfield, 207 Ill. 2d 33 (2003), the Court concluded that a school is a multiuse facility and the parking lot was substantially connected to the entire school and only incidentally to the gym. In the case at bar, parking lot D, where the accident occurred, is attached to the East building

In 2003 at a private retirement party in Oklahoma City, OK, a state senator approached the homeowner with the intention of purchasing her property. With a modest salary of less then $50,000, this state senator was in a limited position to purchase a $475,000 home situated on prime political real estate given its proximity to the state’s capitol. Fortunately for this senator, he did not have to come up with the funds for the home on his own. Public records indicated that the home was registered to a company run by the senator’s former business partner, Kenneth Wagner, and financed by a bank managed by a former associate of his, Albert Kelly (Eder 2018). This ex-state senator is named Scott Pruitt and his generous friends Wagner and Kelly now hold top aide positions under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Understanding the connections between Pruitt’s past and present such as this will help explain his arguably questionable actions as head of the EPA.

After Mueller’s indictment of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on Monday, many Americans have begun to wonder what Mueller’s next move will be. A look into what Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the Russians and Donald Trump is currently doing also may have came into focus on Monday. Trump’s former foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos admitted to making false statements to FBI agents about making attempts to set up meetings between Trump campaign and Russian officials. Papadopoulos is now giving Mueller information about other people that may have been involved in collusion or that violated federal law. The fact that Manafort is being indicted at the moment means that he likely did not talk like Papadopoulos. Trump still won’t necessarily be indicted, but these recent indictments mean that this is only the start for Mueller, not the end as Trump hoped.

They have been on multiple counts (46) including money laundering, bank fraud, insider trading and conspiracy. Jeffrey convicted 19 and put in prison over 24 years. Kenneth had been convicted of fraud 6 times and went to jail for 45 years. Jeffery also did shady business trades.

This case was a direct appeal of Terrance Phillips’ charges on behalf of his attorney, Martin McClain. Berdene Beckles is the attorney who is representing the state. Terrance Phillips was sentenced to death in 2012, after being found guilty of murdering Reynaldo Antunes-Padilla and Mateo Hernandez-Perez in 2009. For the purpose of this appeal, the Justices had McClain focus on proportionality when determining if this sentence was adequate to the crime committed. McClain also argued about the moral culpability of Phillips compared to the other co-defendants, his age, and McClain’s idea that this was simply a robbery gone awry.

Severance works somewhat differently in federal criminal trials because this case involves the indictment of more than one defendant Jones, Walsh and Bert. In Bert 's situation, his defense attorney will provide an argument that a joint trail might be unfair against Bert or reaching a decision on the rape charges against him. The Severance is not automatic because the Federal rule 14 allows judges broad discretion in deciding whether to grant a severance to Bert. To be successful, Bert’s defense will to fill a motion for his severance which must show the concerns for Bert 's right to a fair trial outweigh the goals of the joinder. One of the most successful grounds for seeking severance for Bert arises when Bert wishes not to testify on all, some or any of the charges in the trail but chooses to claim his Fifth Amendment privilege on one or more charges. The separating by court order, such as separate trials for Bert, Jones, and Walsh who are charged with the same crime, or trying the negligence aspect of the rape charge or any other charge before the trail. Such division of issues in the trail is sometimes called "bifurcation." ("Burton 's Legal Thesaurus," 4E. (2007).

Former chair financial officer Andrew S. Fatsow pleaded to two counts of conspiracy. Fatsow was sentenced to six years in prison (WashingtonPost, 2006). Michael J. Kopper former top aide to Fatsow pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and was sentenced to three years and one month in prison (WashingtonPost, 2006). Former chief accounting officer Richard A. Causey pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud. Causey was sentenced to five and a half years in prison (WashingtonPost, 2006). Andrew Fatsow, Michael Kopper, Richard Causey all testified against Kenneth Lay and Jeffery Skilling. Enron founder and former chairman Kenneth Lay was convicted on ten counts of fraud, conspiracy, and false statements to banks. He died six weeks after

On August 2, 2007, the U.S. District Court in Houston entered final judgments in the Commission's civil action against Jerry K. Castleman, a former Enron executive and accountant, and Kathleen M. Lynn, a former Enron executive. The Commission filed a complaint against Castleman, Lynn and others stating that they had participated in a transaction that defrauded Enron's security holders to enrich themselves and others. Included in the complaint, was disclosed that they were involved in a sham sale pursuant in which Enron manufactured earnings and then repurchased the asset without reversing the earnings that they had originally purchased improperly. Some of the security law violations include filing materially false and misleading financial statements

In today’s society crime occurs everyday across all aspects of life. One particular crime is that of white collar and corporate level crime. It is important that we as a society study this type of crime in depth because many individuals believe that white collar and corporate level crimes are victimless crimes when in reality they have the potential to destroy major corporations and economies all with one single case. The news or media rarely talk about this type of crime because it is often difficult to understand and individuals typically lack interest in these types of cases. One particular case is that of Jordan Belfort. Dubbed the infamous “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort is a former stockbroker who robbed investors of over $200 million dollars to create his wealth through “pump and dump” schemes, insider trading, money laundering securities fraud, and stock-market manipulation. As an attempt to further understand these complex cases I will break down Belfort’s case as far as the methods and means as to how he got started, his use of “pump and dump” schemes and other means as to how he acquired his wealth. In addition to this I will discuss the sanctions and disciplinary action that Jordan Belfort was given, how the case affected society and what new regulations were

Rule based accounting standards are difference from principle based standards in that rule based standards are just that – rules. For instance, the Internal Revenue code is rule based. There are things you can do and things you can’t. When rules are broken,