Sentence examples for corporate sentencing from inspiring English sources

Ms. O'Sullivan has worked with the United States Sentencing Commission and the American Bar Association on projects related to corporate sentencing and guilty pleas.

Corporate sentencing guidelines gave the Justice Department the authority to seek financial penalties as high as twice the gain from the crime or twice the amount of the victims' losses.

Financial loss is not taken into account in corporate crime sentencing in Britain or in continental Europe.Congress then instructed the Commission, through the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to further increase "significantly" the penalties for fraud.

All of them went to excellent law schools and made their marks in various roles: circuit judge, corporate lawyer, sentencing commissioner, federal prosecutor and public defender.

Acorn responded with a lawsuit accusing Congress of abusing its power with what amounted to a "corporate death sentence".

Because of the role played by Medicare in the company's finances, such a bar would be tantamount to a corporate death sentence.

If they don't and are later found to have hired illegals, they could lose their licenses to operate, a corporate death sentence.

At the very least, that argues for judges to use more discretion to reflect individual circumstances when sentencing.The new length of corporate-fraud sentences may also be influencing in troubling ways one of the most controversial elements of America's justice system: plea bargaining.

The S.E.C., the Department of Justice and rules for sentencing corporate offenders in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines all say that what should matter in such cases is whether the company had instituted, before the offense, a rigorous compliance/ethics program to prevent and detect wrongdoing.

Former State Senator John Celona, who was sentenced last month to two and a half years in federal prison for taking corporate payoffs, was sentenced to an additional year and a half in prison after pleading no contest to similar state charges.

After the Enron collapse and other corporate scandals, potential sentences have become more severe.