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ChoicePoint announced Monday that residents in all 50 states and D.C. may have been affected by a security breach which resulted in criminals gaining access to its massive database of consumer information. California authorities say as many...

Leading Wednesday's corporations and securities law news, Putnam Investments , the eighth-largest US mutual fund company, may have to increase the restitution it had agreed to pay investors as part of the massive securities fraud at the company....

National and State Trends in Fraud & Identity Theft: January — December 2004, Federal Trade Commission , February 1, 2005 [reporting that the number of complaints about identity theft increased 15 percent from the previous year, and represent about 40...

Leading Tuesday's corporations and securities law news, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) , who have been examining the trading schemes Enron employed on Western power consumers, contend that the energy giant should...

For the fifth year in a row, identity theft topped the list of most reported frauds, the Federal Trade Commission reported Tuesday. The number of complaints about identity theft increased 15 percent from the previous year, and...

Peter Henning, Wayne State University Law School:"Discussed in the Wed. Jan.26th post is the prosecution opening in the case of Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz. Yesterday, the defense responded and it sounds like mens rea, and whether the...

In Thursday's international brief, senior African Union officials are reporting that the Sudanese government bombed a Darfur village Wednesday, with NGO workers present for the first time to actually witness the explosions. The announcement came...

In Thursday's international brief, Somalia's parliament has approved the proposed cabinet of Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi Thursday in a crucial step towards establishing a truly functioning government for the trouble-ridden country. The proposed list was the...

Ellen Podgor, Georgia State University College of Law:"Other bloggers, like Doug Berman's Sentencing Blog (which includes comments of Margy Love, former pardon attorney for DOJ and now in private practice), Orin Kerr writing on the Volokh Conspiracy Blog, and the...

Ray Brent Marsh, a former operator of Georgia's Tri-State Crematory, pleaded guilty Friday to 787 criminal counts including theft, abuse of a corpse, burial service fraud and making false statements. In 2002, an anonymous tip led law enforcement authorities...