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Corporate fraud crackdown gone too far?
(From AFX Europe (Focus))
WASHINGTON (AFX) -
A former top Justice Department official who wrote the government's policy to crack down on corporate lawbreaking said Thursday that prosecutors appear to have overreached when targeting some businesses.
Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson defended the policy's overall goal, which was crafted in the aftermath of widespread fraud and illegal scheming at corporate giants such as Enron and WorldCom. But prosecutors now may be too aggressive when pressuring businesses to cooperate with investigations of wrongdoing by company executives or employees, he said.
The legal tactics outlined in the "Thompson Memo" in 2003 were intended for very limited use, Thompson said.
"There seems to be a sort of a disconnect," Thompson told an audience at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington.
He said his former Justice Department colleagues claim they rarely pressure businesses to disclose confidential attorney-client information in exchange for more lenient prosecutions, but defense lawyers say such demands happen in many cases.
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