{"id":28440,"date":"2019-09-27T15:31:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=28440"},"modified":"2020-11-12T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T23:51:28","slug":"the-washington-post-september-26-2019-professor-ellen-podgor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/the-washington-post-september-26-2019-professor-ellen-podgor\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Professor Ellen Podgor quoted in The Washington Post on deferred prosecution agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Repeat offenders: Corporate misdeeds often settle with deferred prosecution agreements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Public Citizen found that dozens of companies have signed multiple deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Renae Merle<br><em>The Washington Post<\/em><br>Sept. 26, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/podgor-square.png\" alt=\"Ellen S. Podgor\" class=\"wp-image-28731\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/podgor-square.png 300w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/podgor-square-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Ellen S. Podgor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Justice Department has also begun emphasizing ways that companies can avoid harsh penalties, including announcing that those that invest in compliance programs would be rewarded. Then-deputy Attorney General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/speech\/deputy-attorney-general-rod-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-new-york-city-bar-white-collar\">Rod J. Rosenstein also announced a policy last year discouraging<\/a>\u00a0prosecutors from \u201cpiling on\u201d corporations by imposing multiple penalties for the same misconduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Determining how to best punish corporations \u201cis a tough problem,\u201d said <strong>Ellen Podgor<\/strong>, a Stetson University law professor who analyzes white-collar crime. \u201cHow do you get corporations in line; how do you stop them from misconduct?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And later in the article, she was quoted: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Repeat offenders should face escalating fines and consequences, said Podgor, of Stetson University. \u201cYou have to make the fine so that the cost to the company is not worth\u201d the bad behavior, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;width:100px;margin: 20px 0px 15px 0px !important;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">This article was originally published on <em>The Washington Post<\/em> website on Sept. 26, 2019, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2019\/09\/26\/repeat-offenders-corporate-misdeeds-often-settled-with-deferred-prosecution-agreements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Repeat offenders: Corporate misdeeds often settled with deferred prosecution agreements<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat offenders: Corporate misdeeds often settle with deferred prosecution agreements Public Citizen found that dozens of companies have signed multiple deferred prosecution and non-prosecution agreements. 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