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Re-Examining The Line Between Personal And Political Campaign Expenditures: Possible Solutions For A Hazy Statutory Framework, Jeffrey Greenberg
Re-Examining The Line Between Personal And Political Campaign Expenditures: Possible Solutions For A Hazy Statutory Framework, Jeffrey Greenberg
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
On Wednesday, May 16, 2018, the Public Integrity Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office indicted Richard Thomas. Thomas, the mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, faced felony charges of grand larceny and filing false statements resulting from the alleged theft of thousands of dollars from his mayoral campaign committee, Friends of Richard Thomas, for meals, automobile payments, and other personal expenses. While Thomas eventually pled guilty to misdemeanor charges and resigned from office, the prosecutors’ choice to use fraud and theft statutes rather than election law violations as the foundation for their theory of the case calls …
Profile In Public Integrity: Matthew Boxer, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Profile In Public Integrity: Matthew Boxer, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Matthew Boxer currently chairs the Corporate Investigations and Integrity practice group at Lowenstein Sandler, LLP. Previously, Boxer served six years as New Jersey’s first independent State Comptroller. In that role, he was responsible for auditing government finances, examining the efficiency of government programs, investigating misconduct by government officers, scrutinizing the legality of government contracts and recovering improperly expended Medicaid funds. Under Boxer’s leadership, the office uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in waste and fraud.
Profile In Public Integrity: Mark Greenblatt, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Profile In Public Integrity: Mark Greenblatt, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Mark Greenblatt is an attorney in the Greater Washington area specializing in criminal and ethics investigations. Over the course of his career, Mark worked in several roles to lead investigations into misconduct by senior officials in U.S. and foreign governments, most recently as Director of Special Investigations at the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General. He also served as an Investigative Counsel for the special investigations unit of the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. He also led the U.S. Senate investigation into the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program. Mark is a graduate of Duke University and Columbia …
Of Laws And Men: An Essay On Justice Marshall's View Of Criminal Procedure, Daniel C. Richman, Bruce A. Green
Of Laws And Men: An Essay On Justice Marshall's View Of Criminal Procedure, Daniel C. Richman, Bruce A. Green
Faculty Scholarship
As a general rule, criminal defendants whose cases made it to the Supreme Court between 1967 and 1991 must have thought that, as long as Justice Thurgood Marshall occupied one of the nine seats, they had one vote for sure. And Justice Marshall rarely disappointed them – certainly not in cases of any broad constitutional significance. From his votes and opinions, particularly his dissents, many were quick to conclude that the Justice was another of those "bleeding heart liberals," hostile to the mission of law enforcement officers and ready to overlook the gravity of the crimes of which the defendants …