White collar crimes


Hoy … from high roller with a Rolls to a role as a jailbird

Graeme Hoy, the Geelong-based mastermind of Chartwell Enterprises, was sentenced to 13 years jail, in what was claimed to be the longest ever white-collar term of imprisonment in Australia.

Madoff’s life in the clink

A great interview Alan Ellis, lawyer and author of the Federal Prison Guidebook about his surprise at Bernie Madoff’s 150-year sentence — and what happens next.

The ghost of Elders haunts NZ elections

The head of New Zealand’s Labour Party has been in Melbourne poring over a 13,000 page court file in an effort to destroy Opposition Leader John Key, writes Kevin Childs.

Crikey Says: Crikey Says

We have been searching our minds to try to figure out why John Howard and Peter Costello refuse to criminalise cartels and send their perpetrators to jail. Here are 10 possible reasons for their inaction.