Sharp Rise in Immigration Filings Drives Criminal Prosecution Stats

Federal criminal prosecutions reached an all-time high in Fiscal Year 2009, driven by a sharp increase in immigration prosecutions. According to case-by-case data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), overall federal prosecutions were up nearly 9 percent from the previous year, but More…

The Latest Madoff

Just reported by The Washington Post: R. Allen Stanford, head of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission “with fraud in the sale of $8 billion of certificates of deposit, one of the largest alleged financial frauds in U.S. history.”

Yikes!