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"Prosecutors Resort to Wealth Porn in Dreier Case"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this entry at the WSJ Law Blog discussing the latest filings from the parties in the upcoming sentencing of Marc Dreier (basics here).  Here is the setting which a grand new term gets coined: We turn back to Marc Dreier, who yesterday filed a motion asking that he be sentenced to no more than 12 ½ years for running a Ponzi scheme.  Now we return to the government?s response, also filed yesterday, in which asks New York federal judge Jed Rakoff to sentence Dreier to 145 years, in line with the federal sentencing guidelines. The most interesting thing about the government?s filing was its inclusion of what we?ll call, for a lack of a better term, wealth porn: glossy photos of Dreier?s lavish lifestyle, including images of his yacht, beach front house in the Hamptons, and his $207,043...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).