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Cooperation with federal authorities reduces sentences in roughly the same way that confession reduces guilt: conditionally, incompletely, and only when the institution…

The question assumes a binary that does not exist in federal practice. Cooperation is not a single act performed on a single…

What If I Am Afraid to Testify Against Co-Defendants? The fear is not irrational. In multi-defendant criminal cases, the decision to cooperate…

The penalty is not the point. The penalty is what remains after the Securities and Exchange Commission has already accomplished its actual…

The proffer agreement is the government's most efficient instrument for converting a defendant into a witness, and in healthcare fraud cases, it…

The cooperator in a federal RICO prosecution does not exchange information for freedom. The exchange is more intimate and less reversible than…

Cooperation is the single most consequential decision a defendant or target will make in a federal fraud case, and it is almost…

The statute that prosecutes lying to federal agents has ended more careers than the crimes it was designed to investigate. Martha Stewart…

Silence, in a federal investigation, is not a condition one falls into. It is a position one must claim aloud, with precise…

The question contains its own misunderstanding. A target letter does not begin a process. It arrives near the conclusion of one. Federal…

The federal government does not prosecute street gangs the way the public imagines. It constructs conspiracies. What the evening news presents as…