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Legal Beagle's Blog Archive For November 2015, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Legal Beagle's Blog Archive For November 2015, Roger Williams University School Of Law
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Sentencing The Wolf Of Wall Street: From Leniency To Uncertainty, Lucian E. Dervan
Sentencing The Wolf Of Wall Street: From Leniency To Uncertainty, Lucian E. Dervan
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This Symposium Article, based on a presentation given by Professor Dervan at the 2014 Wayne Law Review Symposium entitled "Sentencing White Collar Defendants: How Much is Enough," examines the Jordan Belfort (“Wolf of Wall Street”) prosecution as a vehicle for analyzing sentencing in major white-collar criminal cases from the 1980s until today. In Part II, the Article examines the Belfort case and his relatively lenient prison sentence for engaging in a major fraud. This section goes on to examine additional cases from the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s to consider the results of reforms aimed at “getting tough” on white-collar offenders. …