Archive: November, 2011

Judges are putting many white-collar criminal defendants in the same category as accused killers and rapists. White-collar criminal defendants are seeing that bond is becoming hard to get, especially international defendants. Judges are difficult to convince that the defendants from other countries involved in massive fraud schemes won’t flee. The government believes that many of [...]

The Office of National Drug Control Policy held a media briefing earlier in the month. The purpose of the briefing was to discuss the Obama Administration’s unprecedented approach to addressing drug addiction. U.S. Criminalized Drug Stats The Department of Justice released new data: o Justice Department says that drug use costs U.S. $193 billion a [...]