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Todd Haugh
Reimagining Corporate Monitorships
On March 11, 2008, Congress held its first ever hearing on corporate monitors. The hearing began with questions to John Ashcroft, the former U.S. Attorney General who then headed a law and consulting firm, about why he had been given …
SOX and Fish: What the Supreme Court Missed in Yates v. United States
By now, much of the dust has settled around the Supreme Court’s decision in Yates v. United States.[1] Yates was the odd case of a commercial fisherman convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1519, the “anti-shredding” provision of …