Apr
01
2016
Chas Short spoke on an ethics panel at the Florida Bar’s Practicing with Professionalism in Miami on March 24. Addressing an audience of Florida lawyers in their first year of practice, Mr. Short addressed topics such as how young lawyers should respond to unethical...
Mar
21
2016
On March 18, 2016, Paul Calli was interviewed by the FCPA Professor Blog for the FCPA Flash Podcast.
Paul Calli discussed the current Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement environment, including the Department of Justice's poor trial record in FCPA cases, factors that may contribute to...
Jan
06
2016
Over the past three years, Paul Calli and Chas Short have successfully defended clients who were sued in a campaign of vexatious litigation by the Miccosukee Tribe. The Tribe had falsely alleged, in a series of lawsuits in federal and state court, that its...
Jan
06
2016
For the third consecutive year, Paul Calli has been ranked in the Chambers USA Guide as one of the country's leading business lawyers for defending White Collar Crime and Government Investigations.
Chambers USA ranks leading lawyers in 45 different practice areas on a state and...
Dec
24
2015
The federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a Civil RICO lawsuit against Calli Law’s clients. The Court ruled that the lawsuit failed to state a plausible claim and also lacked the required degree of specificity.
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians...
Oct
16
2015
A former shipping executive whose record five-year price-fixing conviction was upheld by the US First Circuit Court of Appeals has pledged to seek further — and higher — review of his case.
Read the entire article (PDF).
Oct
07
2015
This Johnny Cash song is an appropriate background song for this post.
Following a lifetime of lying , cheating and stealing, Friday night it all caught up to Richard Bistrong and he turned himself in to serve his 18 month prison sentence at the United States Penitentiary...
Oct
07
2015
At least, that’s the apparent directive if you’re a DOJ prosecutor tasked with trying to win the ever-elusive conviction against an individual DOJ claims violated the FCPA.
Earlier this month, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates issued a memorandum titled “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing.”
Taking into...
Jul
01
2015
From Calli Law's July 1, 2015 article on FCPA Professor
In mid-June, the FCPA prosecution of Joseph Sigelman came to an abrupt halt after DOJ’s star witness admitted to giving false testimony on the stand. The case ended in a plea to one conspiracy count...
Jan
21
2015
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ordered Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and their attorney to pay more than $1 million in sanctions on Friday, January 16, 2015. In the 27-page order granting Lewis Tein’s motion for Rule 11 sanctions against the tribe; their lawyer,...