Lawyers Don't Look Good in Stripes: Lawyers, The New Target of Federal Prosecution
18 December 2007
Lawyers have increasingly become targets of federal prosecutions. The wave of corporate fraud prosecutions that has recently swept across the country has included lawyers as principal defendants. The position of general counsel has become the “most dangerous place to be,” according to attorney Reid Weingarten, who earned an acquittal for former Tyco general counsel Mark Belnick. The government views attorneys as the “first line of defense” against corporate malfeasance.
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