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Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs

Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?

Type: Full Committee Hearing
Date:
Time: 09:30am
Location: Dirksen-226

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs has scheduled a hearing on "Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve as an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?" for Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Chairman Specter to preside.

Member Statements

Morning Panel I

  • The Honorable Richard Blumenthal

    Connecticut Attorney General
    Hartford, CT

  • Andrew Weissman

    Partner
    Jenner & Block
    New York, NY
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  • Barbara Roper

    Director of Investor Protection
    Consumer Federation of America
    Pueblo, CO
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  • Damon Silvers

    Associate General Counsel
    AFL-CIO
    Washington, DC
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Morning Panel II

  • Professor John C. Coffee, Jr.

    Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law
    Columbia Law School
    New York, NY
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  • Henry N. Pontell

    Professor of Criminology, Law & Society, and Sociology
    University of California (Irvine)
    Irvine, CA
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  • Larry Ribstein

    Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair, Associate Dean for Research
    University of Illinois College of Law
    Champaign, IL
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  • Professor J.W. Verret

    Assistant Professor of Law
    George Mason University
    Arlington, VA
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Afternoon Panel

  • The Honorable Lanny A. Breuer

    Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division
    U.S. Department of Justice
    Washington, DC
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