Tue May 05, 2009 at 11:45:00 AM EDT
|
| Congressmen Pascrell Pallone are scheduled to participate Friday in a day-long legal forum analyzing the role of prosecutors in "regulating" the practices of businesses and public agencies charged with wrongdoing at NYU's School of Law.
Following the actions of our own U.S. Attorney Chris Christie, the Congressman sponsored legislation that would establish practices and procedures for the use of deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements as alternatives to criminal prosecutions. Here's more on their segment of the program: Pascrell and Pallone will speak at the session on "Monitoring and Compliance Oversight," which will explore the use of "monitors," outside parties selected to oversee compliance of the DPA's and NPA's. The selection of politically-connected monitors for the lucrative contracts sparked controversy, as well as the interest of Congress and now the legal community. And the subtitle for the session is interesting as well:"When should monitors be used? How Should monitors be selected? Who monitors the monitors?" Here's more about the forum and the official program so you can see who they will be joining. The Congressmen have been urging investigations and changes since news of the deferred prosecution agreements first broke. |
| Jason Springer :: Pascrell and Pallone to talk 'Regulation of Prosecutors' |
|
|
Featured Stories  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
