Sentences with phrase «scale fraud prosecutions»

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Kelly Kramer, a white - collar criminal defense attorney at the Mayer Brown firm, said the Supreme Court has scaled back the «honest services fraud» statute, as it is called, in deciding the case of former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling, limiting such prosecutions to cases involving bribes or kickbacks, rather than mere self - dealing.

He has also been acting for a defendant charged in a large scale charities fraud prosecuted by the Charities Commission in conjunction with the Crown Prosecution Service and various other HMRC investigations into VAT fraud.

Admittedly there are cases where a lot of money is spent and has to be spent: for example, large - scale investigations or prosecutions (often on the securities side) where cases involve complex transactions, allegations of fraud, a long history of communication amongst numerous parties — in these types of cases it can be very costly to prosecute as well as defend.