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Jamie Olis finally gets a ticket to Bastrop
Jamie Olis, the former Dynegy mid-level executive whose prosecution and sentencing represents one of the most brutal examples of the federal government's criminalization of business since the bursting of the stock market bubble earlier this decade, has finally received a...
The ordeal of Jamie Olis continues
As noted earlier here, former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling will report to a minimum-security prison in Waseca, Minnesota on Tuesday to begin serving the brutal 24 year sentence that he was assessed on October 23rd. On January 2, former Enron...
Jamie Olis resentenced to six years
U.S. District Judge Sim Lake resentenced Jamie Olis to six years in prison this afternoon (Olis has already served about 2.5 years in prison) in the latest chapter of the three year saga that has become arguably the starkest example...
The Fastow sentencing memorandum
As Jamie Olis awaits his resentencing for working on a transaction for which he did not profit, Andrew Fastow's lawyers (one of whom is Olis' attorney -- small world, isn't it?) filed a sentencing memorandum earlier this week that claims...
The resentencing of Jamie Olis
US District Judge Sim Lake announced yesterday that Jamie Olis will be resentenced on Friday at 2 p.m., almost a year after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Lake's previous 24+ year sentence. As we await another chapter...
Awaiting the Jamie Olis sentence
As we await U.S. District Judge Sim Lake's decision on the resentencing of Jamie Olis later this week, this Economist article does an excellent job of summarizing the issues that are at play in determining the all-important market loss issue...
Olis resentencing hearing concludes
After a hearing in state court yesterday concluded, I was able to attend the conclusion of the resentencing hearing for Jamie Olis in U.S. District Judge Sim Lake's court (Tom Fowler's Chronicle article on the hearing is here). My sense...
Grundfest takes on the sad case of Jamie Olis
A heavyweight has entered the ring on behalf of Jamie Olis. The WSJ's Peter Lattman reports that Joseph A. Grundfest, W.A. Franke Professor of Law at Stanford University and one of the leading securities law experts in the US, is...
Olis resentencing hearing finally scheduled
Red Redding, Morgan Freeman's character in The Shawshank Redemption, commented that "prison time is slow time" and that "prison life consists of routine, and then more routine." Those observations are certainly true in regard to the resentencing of Jamie Olis....
Scheduling conference today in the sad case of Jamie Olis
On the heels of the Fifth Circuit ordering the release from prison yesterday of two other business executives who have been subjected to the Justice Department's demonization of business in the post-Enron era, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake will conduct...
Jamie Olis' nightmare continues
The ever-alert Doug Berman notes that, in an expected decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied Jamie Olis' appeal of U.S. District Judge Sim Lake's denial of Olis' motion for release pending the Judge's re-sentencing of Olis after...
Comparing Martin Frankel and Jamie Olis
Outside the glare of the trial of the corporate criminal case of the decade, a true corporate crook -- financier Martin Frankel -- was re-sentenced yesterday in a post-Booker hearing to 17 years in prison for pulling off one of...
More prosecutorial misconduct in the sad case of Jamie Olis
One can only wonder when the mainstream media will pick up on the outrageous conduct of the Justice Department in the sad case of former mid-level Dynegy executive Jamie Olis? First, in a prosecution that probably should never have been...
Jamie Olis resentencing hearing postponed
The long-awaited resentencing hearing in the sad case of Jamie Olis that was scheduled to take place today has been postponed indefinitely to give U.S. District Judge Sim Lake time to review recently-filed materials in the case relating to the...
Your Justice Department at work
In what can only be described as an over-the-top and spiteful request, the prosecutors in the sad case of Jamie Olis requested yesterday that U.S. District Judge Sim Lake resentence Olis to a 15 year jail sentence that is exceeded...
Hearing on Olis resentencing scheduled
This Chronicle article reports that the hearing on the re-sentencing of former Dynegy executive Jamie Olis will take place on Thursday January 5, 2006 before U.S. District Judge Sim Lake, with briefs due on the resentencing issues on December 20...
Finally, some justice for Jamie Olis
The sad case of Jamie Olis has been a frequent topic on this blog as an egregious example of the injustice that has resulted from the government's increasing criminalization of business in American society. Last night, after many months of...
Report on the 5th Circuit argument in the sad case of Jamie Olis
Ann Woolner of Bloomberg.com attended the Fifth Circuit oral argument on the appeal of Jamie Olis' sentence and files this report. She is optimistic, as I am, that the Fifth Circuit will reverse Olis' 24 year sentence and remand his...
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