Word: white-collar
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...NATURE OF PRACTICE: white-collar criminal defense; ethics...
...NATURE OF PRACTICE: white-collar criminal defense...
...NATURE OF PRACTICE: white-collar criminal defense...
...issues that Farrakhan is highlighting are important to the African-American community, and no one else is highlighting them." She cites his attack on welfare as "subsidizing single women to have babies," his complaint that the Federal Government spends more on prisons than on education and his charge that white-collar crime is not considered as heinous as other offenses. In meetings with the Congressional Black Caucus, Farrakhan proposed unconventional rehabilitation methods -- one member recalls a plan to transport prisoners and addicts to Africa as an alternative to the chaos of the ghetto -- and was hailed for offering creative alternatives...
...each criminal count and triple damages in civil judgments. RICO quickly proved a sterling Mob stopper, as dozens of capos like New York City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals like junk- bond-king Michael Milken. Plaintiffs in normal civil suits (a famous one involved litigious rabbis) used it to extract lucrative awards or far better settlements. It was invoked in sexual harassment suits...