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A week worth watching from a white-collar sentencing perspective

By Douglas A. Berman

Late monday afternoon is the scheduled federal sentencing of lawyer Marc Dreier in New York City, who might be viewed as a kind of mini-Madoff.  As detailed in prior posts here and here, there are lots of interesting elements to the Dreier case that make it the first post-Madoff must-watch event for white-collar sentencing fans. But the Dreier case just gets the white-collar sentencing action started this week.  As detailed in this new article from The Legal Intelligencer, which is headlined "Judge's Calculation May Reduce Fumo's Sentence," there is also a notable political corruption case due to be sentencing this week in Pennsylvania.  Here is how this article sets up the sentencing excitement in this other notable white-collar sentencing case: A two-page order handed down on Friday was the first piece of good news in a long time for former state Sen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 13, 2009 (boomark / email).