Some defendants with frozen assets are having trouble hiring lawyers. WUSTL law professor Sam Buell, a former federal prosecutor comments.

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1. April 2, 2009 — Defendants, With Assets Frozen, Find It Tough to Hire Attorneys in the The Wall Street Journal

A UBS memo, along with dozens of e-mail messages like it, were disclosed on Thursday in a blistering court document filed by the Justice Department, which sought to compel UBS, based in Switzerland, to divulge the identities of 52,000 Americans whom the authorities suspect of using secret offshore accounts at the bank to dodge taxes. WUSTL criminal and securities law professor Samuel Buell, who helped to prosecute Enron, comments.

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1. Feb. 20, 2009 — UBS Pressed for 52,000 Names in 2nd Inquiry in the The New York Times

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WUSTL law professor and former Enron prosecutor Samuel Buell, comments on U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent's Houston trial.

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1. Oct. 31, 2008 — Federal judge wants his polygraph used in Houston trial in the Houston Chronicle

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WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on prosecuting white-collar crimes.

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1. Oct. 31, 2008 — Commentary: Jailing Executives Is One Thing Bush Did Right in the Bloomberg.com

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced tough questions during the Senate Judiciary Committee over his role in the firing of eight federal prosecutors.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell, who is a former Enron prosecutor, was one of the experts speaking in this broadcast.

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1. April 19, 2007 — What Will Senate Hearings Mean for Gonzales? in the NPR - Talk Of The Nation

Transcript of the March 13 program on the controversial firing of U.S. attorneys. The transcript includes comments by U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Senator Charles Schumer, WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell, and NPR's Ari Shapiro.

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1. March 13, 2007 — Gonzales admits errors in firing U.S. attorneys in the NPR - All Things Considered

California's attorney general today filed criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on the case.

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1. Oct. 4, 2006 — Charges filed in HP spying scandal in the NPR Marketplace

Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. pushed out its chief executive, Peter R. Dolan, on Tuesday at the urging of a federal monitor who was looking into how top management dealt with generic competition for Plavix, its top-selling heart drug. The New York firm has been operating since last year under a deferred prosecution agreement with Christie that resolved an earlier, unrelated accounting scandal by requiring it to stay out of trouble for two years and allowing the monitor to call for management changes. Although some analysts raised concern that federal prosecutors were getting involved in corporate governance, Samuel W. Buell, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, pointed out that when corporations are convicted of crimes, probation and monitoring are almost always part of the resulting sentence.

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1. Sept. 13, 2006 — Bristol-Myers Ousts Its Chief at Monitor's Urging in the Washington Post