Ms. Brooks negotiated with prosecutors through the summer, trying to structure a plea bargain in which she could avoid a prison sentence.
Van Gelder noted that in the way the special counsel structured Flynn's plea agreement, prosecutors avoided sharing the guts of their ongoing investigation.
Even the case against UBS — which did involve a rare, corporate guilty plea — was structured so that a foreign subsidiary with no real exposure to the United States was used to limit the potential consequences to the broader organization.
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DealBook » UBS Settlement Minimizes Impact of Guilty Plea | To settle a rate-rigging case, the Japanese securities subsidiary of UBS pleaded guilty to a charge of felony wire fraud as part of a settlement that was structured to keep the potential fallout from the plea to a minimum, Peter J. Henning writes in the White Collar Watch column.
As I discussed when UBS settled in December, the Justice Department has structured the deal to minimize the impact of the guilty plea by having a foreign subsidiary responsible for the guilty plea.
Although that distinguishes this case from most others, the Justice Department and UBS also structured the settlement to keep the potential fallout from the plea to a minimum.
Even when the Justice Department obtains a guilty plea as part of the resolution of a corporate criminal investigation, it has structured the case to minimize the collateral consequences to the company from a conviction.
As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Zelepos agreed to forfeit $522,658 of the money he intentionally structured between January 2010 and January 2011.
The plea deal with Lea Fastow, the wife of Andrew S. Fastow, is the first part of a complex arrangement structured by prosecutors that would propel the investigation of the events in Enron to a new level.
Hastert, 74, faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison when sentenced later this month for his guilty plea in October to a federal charge of illegally structuring large bank withdrawals in small increments to evade currency-reporting rules.
