When The Government Chases the Tail of the Dog
08/27/2014 | The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement
Two recent white-collar cases are examples of a phenomenon that one tends to find when the defense is able to emerge victorious: a case with some core facts that simply do not fit the pattern of wrongdoing expected in the popular conception. The phenomenon is that of the case that trails behind, and that is missing the characteristics that ultimately matter most: the tail, not the dog. [...]