Environmental Law

Good Old-Fashioned Crime

By Walter James

The USDOJ also likes to add some of the ?good-old-fashion-crime? to any indictment.  In addition to being able to argue its typical ?crimes against nature,? the government also likes to talk about ?good-old-fashion-crime.?  What is ?good-old-fashion-crime? (in addition to environmental crimes associated with bad conduct by bad people)?  It includes:

-                      Lying, cheating, and stealing (enough said);

-                      Obstruction of justice (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505 and 1512(c));

-                      False statements;

-                      Fraud (mail and wire fraud included) (18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343);

-                      Conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 371);

-                      Sarbanes-Oxley (18 U.S.C. § 1519);

-                      RICO (18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq.);

-                      Money laundering (18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957(a));

-                      False statements before the grand jury (18 U.S.C. § 1623);

-                      Destruction and/or removal of property to prevent seizure (18 U.S.C. § 2232); and

-                      Smuggling (18 U.S.C. § 545).

In short, environmental crime is not always just the usual RCRA, CWA, CAA, etc. laundry list of environmental statutes.

More later.

As always, feel free to contact me via e-mail at walter.james@jamespllc.com.

WDJiii

Full post as published by Environmental Crimes Blog on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).