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Corporate Crime And Serious Fraud Offenses

A superceding permanent amendment will be submitted to Congress on or before May 1, 2003. The Commission will continue to monitor the effectiveness of the relevant guidelines and study whether further modifications are appropriate in the future."

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White papers 2003-01-01

Increased Penalties Under The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002

From the executive summary: ‘The United States Sentencing Commission strongly supports the efforts to punish more appropriately and prevent corporate crime and serious fraud offenses, as underscored by the amendment implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Because of the amendment, the Commission hopes that many serious fraud and related offenses will be...

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White papers 2003-01-01

Additional Resources

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NEW YORK, Feb. 13 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: THE 9/11 TRIALS (The Washington Post, Washington) THE DEFENDANTS stood accused of savage acts, including mass murder. After lengthy delay, the United States put them on trial by military commissions, which did...

Articles 2008-02-18

Panel allows easing of crack sentences

The U.S. Sentencing Commission recently voted unanimously to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them Black, to seek reductions in crack cocaine sentences. The commission, which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, decided to make retroactive its easing of recommended sentences for crack offenses. ...

Articles 2008-01-07

10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacates mortgage-fraud sentence

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a Colorado man's sentence for mail fraud and other offenses in a mortgage- fraud case, ruling that the federal district court did not resolve factual disputes as to whether James Galloway's fraudulent conduct actually caused a loss. The...

Articles 2007-12-13

Supreme Court Affirms Discretion in Crack and Other Guideline Cases

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Monica Pratt Raffanel of Families Against MandatoryMinimums, +1-678-261-8118, media@famm.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Families AgainstMandatory Minimums (FAMM) applauds the Supreme Courts rulings in twoimportant sentencing decisions handed down today, U.S. v. Kimbroughand Gall v. United States. At a time when federal crack cocaine sentencing...

Articles 2007-12-10

Paula J. Desio Named to ERC Chair for Ethics Policy

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Brent Gilroy of Ethics Resource Center, +1-202-872-4788,newsdesk@ethics.org WASHINGTON, June 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Paula J. Desio,formerly the Deputy General Counsel to the United States SentencingCommission, has been named the first holder of the Chair for EthicsPolicy at the Ethics Resource Center. ERC is an 85-year-oldWashington-based non-profit...

Articles 2007-06-14

Death by sodomy

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down all U.S. sodomy laws in 2003, and no European countries outlaw gay sex--not even Vatican City. But laws against homosexuality are alive and well in many nations around the world, where penalties range from a fine to life in prison to execution. In the...

Articles 2006-09-12

Australian Guantanamo prisoner could serve sentence at home

SYDNEY (AFP) — Australia's lone Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks could be transferred home to serve out any sentence handed down by a US military commission under a new agreement, senior ministers said. Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Australia and the United States...

Articles 2006-05-09

Sensenbrenner Expresses Concern Over Federal Sentencing Practices Detailed in New Report

WASHINGTON, March 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Judiciary CommitteeChairman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.) issued the followingstatement in response to the release today of the United StatesSentencing Commission's Report on the Impact of United States v.Booker on Federal Sentencing. "I want to commend the United States Sentencing Commission for...

Articles 2006-03-14

Virginia Man Convicted for Possession of Child Pornography in the Form of Japanese Anime Cartoons

RICHMOND, Va., March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dwight Whorley, 52, ofRichmond, Virginia has been sentenced to 240 months imprisonment onchild pornography charges, Acting Deputy Attorney General and UnitedStates Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Paul J. McNultyand Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Alice S.Fisher today announced. ...

Articles 2006-03-10

Commissioner of USSC to Join OCEG CEO and Axentis President In Webinar On Leveraging SOX Through Broad Risk Management

CLEVELAND -- Webinar Co-Hosted by Business Finance Magazine and Axentis to Discuss Approaches of SOX Compliance--Features Representatives from Axentis, USSC and OCEG Axentis, the leading provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management solutions, will co-host a Webinar with Business Finance Magazine. The event, titled, "Upward Mobility: Leveraging...

Articles 2006-02-27

Penalty box: the SEC is handing out bigger and bigger fines for misdeeds. But is this the right approach?

BY SEC STANDARDS, IT was an odd sort of press release. On January 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement regarding actions against McAfee Inc. and Applix Inc. The Commission reported that the suits had been settled, and that in McAfee's case, the company would pay...

Articles 2006-02-01

2004 AMENDMENTS TO THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES AND THEIR IMPLICIT CALL FOR A SYMBIOTIC INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS ETHICS*, THE

INTRODUCTION The United States Sentencing Commission (the "Commission") recently made substantial revisions to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for organizations (the "Guidelines"), with the changes going into effect on November 1, 2004.' In making these revisions, the Commission promised to create a "new era of corporate compliance" where organizations would...

Articles 2006-01-01

The Ethics Officer Association Announces ''D.C. in December'' Agenda

WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Ethics Officer Association (EOA) has announced the agenda for D.C. in December, a one day event that will bring together Commissioners from the United States Sentencing Commission and representatives from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. The event, which will be held...

Articles 2005-12-05

U.S. Sentencing Commission reports on court response to 'Booker' and

Federal courts continue to punish more than 60 percent of convicted criminals within guidelines set by the U.S. Sentencing Commission despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision that made the guidelines advisory, recent statistics show. On Jan. 12, the Supreme Court ruled in the consolidated cases of Booker...

Articles 2005-10-11

Acts Approved by the President

Approved September 29 H.R. 3649 / Public Law 109-74 Sportfishing and Recreational Boating Safety Amendments Act of 2005 S. 1340 / Public Law 109-75 To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to extend the date after which surplus funds in the wildlife restoration fund become available...

Articles 2005-10-03

Executive Order 13384—Assignment of Functions Relating to Original Appointments as Commissioned Officers and Chief Warrant Officer Appointments in the Armed Forces

July 27, 2005 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Assignment of Functions to the Secretary...

Articles 2005-08-01

Conviction of Former Nepalese Prime Minister.

M2 PRESSWIRE-28 July 2005-US DEPT OF STATE: Conviction of Former Nepalese Prime Minister(C)1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27072005 Press Statement Sean McCormack, Spokesman Washington, DC July 27, 2005 The United States is disturbed by the June 26 conviction in Nepal...

Articles 2005-07-28

'Life sentence' for Ebbers.

Jul 14, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) The former CEO of failed US telco, Worldcom, has received a long jail sentence. In March 2005, Bernie Ebbers was found guilty of nine counts of fraud, conspiracy and filing false returns. On...

Articles 2005-07-14