Criminal,
Corporate,
Administrative/Regulatory
Oct. 20, 2021
Biden administration signals impending increase in white collar prosecutions
While the iconic comic strip character Dick Tracy took great pleasure in informing the villains he nabbed that “crime doesn’t pay,” those engaged in white collar crime over the past several years might beg to differ.
Robert E. Dugdale
Partner, Kendall, Brill & Kelly LLP
Phone: 310-272-7904
Email: rdugdale@kbkfirm.com
Robert focuses his practrice on white collar cases and government investigations. He previously served for 19 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District of California. While working as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Mr. Dugdale served as the chief assistant U.S. attorney for trials, integrity, and professionalism and, prior to that, the chief of the Criminal Division, a position in which he oversaw the work of approximately 200 federal prosecutors in the second-largest U.S. attorney's office in the nation. He can be contacted at Rdugdale@kbkfirm.com.
While the iconic comic strip character Dick Tracy took great pleasure in informing the villains he nabbed that "crime doesn't pay," those engaged in white collar crime over the past several years might beg to differ. By most metrics, the Trump years were boom times for white collar criminals, at least in terms of minimizing the chances that their wrongdoing would ever result in a criminal change and conviction.
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