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October 29, 2006
Don’t Lie to Your In-House Lawyer
Another lesson from the prosecution of Computer Associates executives Sanjay Kumar and Stephen Richards: lying to your corporate lawyer may support a criminal charge of obstruction of justice under Sarbanes-Oxley. The Dept. Of Justice has used this argument again in a different case: claiming that an alleged lie of an exec to his corporate counsel amounted to obstruction. As reported in a recent National Law Journal article, the federal government is quite willing to use the testimony of such internal investigations to support criminal charges.
Posted by danfelix at October 29, 2006 11:07 AM
Comments
Dan-
Cool blog. Wht are your goals with the blog? Is the blog meeting those goals?
Do you recommend using a blog?
I hope all else is well.
Charlie Brown
Posted by: Charlie Brown at October 29, 2006 06:19 PM
Maybe the point is - don't lie - someone may wash your mouth out with soap!
Posted by: Mike T. at October 30, 2006 12:47 PM
One might suggest not lying in general to be part of a good code of ethics, but hey, that's just me!
Posted by: Heidi Miller at October 30, 2006 08:59 PM
What if you "believe" the lie you tell? "I thought SOMEBODY would find weapons."
Posted by: Aaron Freeman at October 30, 2006 10:13 PM
Daniel, this is a muched needed blog. I look forward to frequenting this site! Sincerely, Sandy
Posted by: Sandy Schwan at October 31, 2006 08:41 AM
