Peter J. Henning, a professor at Wayne State Law School, occasionally writes as a guest blogger for the Deal Professor. Mr. Henning specializes in issues related to white-collar crime and is a former editor of the White Collar Crime Law Prof Blog.The guilty plea by Frank DiPascali provides quite a bit more detail on how Bernard L. Madoff orchestrated the complex Ponzi scheme that cost investors billions of dollars. Mr.

Timothy Egan takes former-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to task over her blatent lies regarding the healthcare debate and how those lies directly incite mob rule.  For a democracy, which depends on an informed citizenry to balance a permanent lobbying class, this is poison. And it’s one reason why town hall forums on health care, which should be sharp debates about something that affects all of us, have turned into town mauls. The lies and shouts have had the effect that all crank speech has on free speech — stifling any real exchange.