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Law James Comey Has A Long History Of Questionable Obstruction Cases From Martha Stewart to Frank Quattrone to Steven Hatfill, former FBI director James Comey has left a long trail of highly questionable obstruction of justice cases that he used to make a name for himself. Mollie Hemingway By Mollie Hemingway June 12, 2017 Following countdown clocks on cable outlets and dramatic claims in the media about what devastating testimony to expect, James Comey sat down before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week. The hearing ended up being a bit of a let-down for critics of President Trump who hoped...

To indict someone, the criteria is supposed to be “intent.” Comey has used that to pretend there is no evidence that Hillary “intentionally” erased anything. Comey also stated that Hillary’s lawyers erased her emails using a keyword search program and they did not “read” the emails. He added that he would not recommend charges against Hillary or her aides. “Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information,” Comey...

FBI Director Comey: No "reasonable prosecutor" would bring charges against Hillary ClintonSays the man who once indicted me over a 23-word email that encouraged my team to save subpoenaed documents

NEW YORK – With all the anti-establishment, power-to-the-people refrains sounded in its IPO manifesto, it's curious that Google Inc. chose to reward the most notorious investment bank of the IPO boom to spearhead the initial public offering. Although Credit Suisse First Boston presumably cleansed its reputation two years ago with a $100 million settlement of federal charges, Monday's conviction of the firm's former star banker was a perfectly timed reminder of the greedy past that shadows one of Google's new Wall Street pals. It's not that the search engine company was obligated to jeopardize its chances of a big IPO...

Reporting from Sacramento — The name of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, a billionaire who has been defending her ties to embattled investment banking giant Goldman Sachs throughout her campaign, appears in the federal investigation of another Wall Street firm tarnished by scandal. Court documents filed by prosecutors in the aftermath of the dot-com bust show Whitman, then chief executive of EBay, listed among about 200 executives who were to receive gifts of deeply discounted stock from Frank Quattrone, then a banker at Credit Suisse First Boston. A star dealmaker during the late 1990s, Quattrone was twice indicted on obstruction-of-justice...

His legal troubles behind him, famed investment banker Frank Quattrone was back in his old role Wednesday as corporate adviser and tech industry sage. At the AlwaysOn technology conference at Stanford University, Quattrone opined about market reforms enacted after the dot-com bust, equity markets, the state of initial public offerings and the outlook for innovation in the technology industry. Along the way, he dispensed advice to executives of three start-up companies lucky enough to have an appointment with 'the doctor," as the conference billed Quattrone. "It feels great," he said. "I feel like I'm a kid in a candy store."...

Score another round this week for Frank Quattrone. Silicon Valley's once-powerful investment banker won a ruling Friday that overturned a order banning him for life from working in the stock-market industry. The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 to overturn the ban imposed by an industry regulator, the National Association of Securities Dealers. Now NASD must decide whether to try again to discipline Quattrone for refusing to testify in an investigation of activities during the technology industry boom. Earlier this week, on Monday, a federal appeals court in New York overturned Quattrone's conviction on charges of obstructing justice. Prosecutors have...

NEW YORK - High-powered technology banker Frank Quattrone was granted a new trial Monday when a federal appeals court tossed out his conviction on charges he obstructed a government probe of stock offerings at the height of the dot-com boom. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the evidence was sufficient to sustain a conviction but that the May 2004 verdict must be thrown out because the jury was improperly instructed on how to interpret the law. It also ordered that the case be reassigned to another judge. The government is weighing whether to retry the case....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frank Quattrone, a former banker famous for taking hot technology companies public, was found guilty on Monday of obstructing federal investigations into some of the most popular stock offerings of the 1990s. Jurors delivered their verdict after deliberating about seven hours over two days, concluding the ex-banker tried to block grand jury and regulatory investigations by forwarding an e-mail to co-workers reminding them to "clean up" their files. It was the second trial for Quattrone, 48, who will likely face one to two years in prison at his sentencing, set for Sept. 8. The first trial...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in the trial of former star banker Frank Quattrone obstruction of justice case asked late on Thursday to hear key testimony read back to them, as the second day of deliberations wound down without a verdict. The jury sent several notes to the judge presiding over the trial, including a request to hear again Quattrone's testimony about his role in the allocation of hot stock offerings at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was head of technology investment banking. Quattrone resigned under pressure from CSFB, an affiliate of Switzerland's Credit Suisse Group (CSGZn.VX), in March...

<p>FRANK Quattrone's defenders claim that the obstruction of justice charges against the former star investment banker are pretty thin.</p> <p>Until a court decides the matter, Quattrone is innocent.</p> <p>But when Quattrone's defenders claim there was nothing wrong during the Internet bubble at Credit Suisse First Boston's technology group, which Quattrone ran like a personal fiefdom, they ignore reality.</p>

<p>Frank Quattrone's battle to clear his name has entered a new phase: the public-relations campaign.</p> <p>The former star banker is under fire on many fronts. He faces charges of criminal obstruction of justice for helping to urge colleagues in an e-mail to ``clean up'' files that regulators say were sought in several investigations. He also faces expulsion from his industry of 23 years for allegations that he improperly offered overly optimistic stock research and hot stock offerings to win investment-banking business.</p>

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Former Credit Suisse First Boston star banker Frank Quattrone surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday morning and will face criminal charges, prosecutors said. James Comey, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, will unveil the charges at a 1 p.m. ET press conference. Quattrone, a former star banker for CSFB, allegedly advised his colleagues in late 2000 to destroy documents while regulators were investigating the ways Wall Street investment banks were doling out shares of lucrative initial public offerings. The former banker is charged in a three-count criminal complaint with obstruction of justice, document destruction...

<p>Regulators charged investment banker Frank Quattrone with violating a series of securities rules as he pushed to land clients for Credit Suisse First Boston.</p> <p>The National Association of Securities Dealers alleged that Quattrone improperly enticed clients by offering them the opportunity to buy shares in potentially lucrative IPOs and by promising that analysts who were supposed to be independent would provide favorable research.</p>