USA - April 19 2021
January was not a quiet month in D.C. An outgoing president refused to concede the election, a mob stormed the Capitol, and a new President…
USA - April 7 2021
Among the many ways the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines have distorted the federal Criminal Justice system is through heavy reliance on factual…
Richard F. Albert
USA - February 10 2021
Wall Street has greeted Gary Gensler’s nomination as Chair of the SEC with some trepidation, perhaps with good reason. Congress, by contrast, may have…
Richard F. Albert
USA - December 10 2020
A Second Circuit panel’s decision last year in United States v. Blaszczak, 947 F.3d 19 (2d Cir. 2019) held that a government agency’s confidential…
Richard F. Albert
USA - October 27 2020
No good deed goes unpunished. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which endeavors to give struggling small businesses…