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What Is A Business Crime?, Richard A. Booth Nov 2007

What Is A Business Crime?, Richard A. Booth

Working Paper Series

Criminal prosecution has been used with increasing frequency recently in connection with a variety of business failures and other financial offenses. Indeed, it appears that there are few such offenses that cannot be prosecuted criminally even though they also give rise to civil remedies. While some such offenses seem to be quite serious frauds, others seem to be as minor as getting the accounting rules wrong. Thus, the question addressed in this essay is how to define a business crime and what should be the proper role of criminal prosecution in connection with business offenses. I start with the proposition …


Making It Easier To Milk The Cow: The Southern District Of New York Collapses The Culpable Participation Doctrine And Sidesteps The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Matthew W. Goulding Jan 2004

Making It Easier To Milk The Cow: The Southern District Of New York Collapses The Culpable Participation Doctrine And Sidesteps The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Matthew W. Goulding

Villanova Law Review

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