Randall D Eliason

March 10, 2006 | The Recorder

Public corruption cases are rare because the law is tough, not because the system is clean.

By Randall D. Eliason

7 minute read

July 05, 2010 | National Law Journal

In light of Skilling, Congress should enact a more specific statutory definition that includes not only bribery and kickbacks but also self-dealing.

By Randall D. Eliason

6 minute read

September 26, 2008 | The Recorder

Law professor Randall Eliason says the Arthur Anderson implosion has prosecutors unduly frightened about criminally indicting companies, and that corporate indictment is a powerful tool.

By Randall D. Eliason

7 minute read

October 02, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

Corporate criminal liability has fallen out of favor, replaced by a Justice Department policy of deferred prosecution or nonprosecution agreements for corporate defendants. The agreements sound good in theory, but their excessive use is undermining the criminal justice system, according to Randall D. Eliason, the former chief of the public corruption and government fraud section at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. Eliason says we need to resurrect the corporate indictment.

By Randall D. Eliason

7 minute read

March 23, 2007 | Law.com

In protecting their source, two reporters from the San Francisco Chronicle helped perpetrate a fraud on the court. For this they are cheered?

By Randall D. Eliason

10 minute read

October 12, 2009 | Daily Business Review

Honest services fraud, a sweeping charge with ill-defined boundaries, is rapidly becoming the corruption statute of choice for federal prosecutors. This trend should make everyone uneasy.

By Randall D. Eliason

4 minute read

March 10, 2006 | The Recorder

Public corruption cases are rare because the law is tough, not because the system is clean.

By Randall D. Eliason

7 minute read

September 28, 2007 | Law.com

The precisely worded denials of Larry Craig � and other politicians � cry out for a trial lawyer's cross-examination. Maybe then American political discourse would get back on track.

By Randall D. Eliason

6 minute read

July 14, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

On June 24, in a trio of long-anticipated decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court sharply limited one of the federal prosecutor's favorite statutes: honest services mail and wire fraud. The rulings came in the cases of two corporate executives - former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling and media mogul Conrad Black - and an Alaskan state legislator, Bruce Weyhrauch. In each case, the defendant was charged with defrauding others of their intangible right to honest services.

By Randall D. Eliason

6 minute read