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Bankruptcy Crimes 2002
By Stephanie Wickouski 
2002/06 - Beard Books 1587981173 - Paperback -516 pp. US$124.95 This edition is now out-of-print. Get the new Bankruptcy Crimes: Third Edition here. Must reading for bankruptcy professionals. Publisher Comments This leading, authoritative treatise on bankruptcy fraud, first published in 2000, is an invaluable reference book for bankruptcy law practitioners, white-collar criminal lawyers, and prosecutors. Bankruptcy Crimes is the only book extant on the subject and is unique in its dual perspective and analysis of criminality and bankruptcy law. Stephanie Wickouski is equally adept at explaining the statutory intricacies of bankruptcy law as she is with defining the elements of criminal offenses. It is all here: fraud, perjury, embezzlement, bribery, money laundering, and destruction of records. In fact, E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr. of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky, and Walker, Washington, D. C. said, "If I were a lawyer involved in a bankruptcy matter, whether civil or criminal, and had only one reference work that I could rely on, it would be this book." The new edition is current and incorporates several new topics, such as recent changes in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, including misrepresentation and other fraudulent acquisitions in a bankruptcy proceeding that increase the offense level. In addition, there are in-depth discussions of asset forfeiture; civil and criminal forfeiture; bankruptcy court jurisdiction over forfeited property; the effect of the automatic stay on forfeiture; a trustee's avoidance of asset forfeiture; and the turnover of forfeited property.
"If I were a lawyer involved in a bankruptcy matter, whether civil or criminal, and had only one reference work that I could rely on, it would be this book." E. Lawrence Barcella, Jr.
In addition, Ms. Wickouski is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy, health care insolvency, acquisitions of distressed companies, lender liability, and troubled loans. She has taught creditors' rights at the Catholic University School of Law and was formerly a law clerk to the Hon. Roger M. Whelan, former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of Columbia. Prior to entering private practice, she was a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she received several awards for her handling of litigation in airline bankruptcies. She has served as a panel trustee for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and as a mediator for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Recently, she served as the lead counsel to New York Medical Group, P.C. in its recent chapter 11 case in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and as lead counsel to Newsworld Communications (The Washington Times) in its acquisition of UPI. Bankruptcy Crimes is the leading authoritative treatise on the subject of bankruptcy fraud.
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Stephanie
Wickouski is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gardner, Carton &
Douglas. Her practice is concentrated in business bankruptcy, insolvency, and
commercial litigation. Ms. Wickouski counsels clients on all aspects of
financial and credit relationships. She has extensive litigation experience in
complex reorganization cases before federal bankruptcy courts throughout the
country, and has written extensively on bankruptcy issues. Her articles have
appeared in The National Law Journal, ABA Litigation Magazine, Legal Times,
Washington Business Journal and official publications of the District of
Columbia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania State Bar Associations.
