by Justin Paperny | Mar 30, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, 2: Life In Federal Prison, 3: Life After Federal Prison, Justin Paperny |
If you are familiar with our work, you know we stress the value of self-advocacy. For that reason, we encourage you to learn everything you can possibly learn about: • How government investigations begin, • How prosecutors bring charges, • What follows after a charge,...
by Justin Paperny | Mar 15, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, Justin Paperny |
As you likely know, Sam Bankman-Fried was one of the wealthiest people in crypto, primarily due to FTX and his Alameda Research trading firm. It all came crumbling down in the fall of 2022. The trial is set for October 2022. In this video, I compare how his choices...
by Justin Paperny | Mar 12, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, 2: Life In Federal Prison, Justin Paperny |
I received an interesting call from a white-collar defendant on his way to federal prison for 60 months. “Tell me what you can do for me, to get me out asap, and I will hire you. Give me your best pitch, what you got,” he said. Rather than utter the...
by Justin Paperny | Feb 28, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, Justin Paperny |
A journalist writing a piece about White Collar Advice asked me to offer some things Sam Bankman-Fried should not do in federal prison. I told him I wasn’t going to do it. He laughed and asked again! “He has yet to plead guilty or be convicted. Maybe he will...
by Justin Paperny | Feb 17, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, 2: Life In Federal Prison, 3: Life After Federal Prison |
Jen Shah surrenders to the federal prison camp in Bryan Texas today for 6 1/2 years or 78 months. When Jen reached out to our team, she expressed a number of goals or aspirations for her looming prison sentence, including creating a record that documents how she is...
by Justin Paperny | Feb 15, 2023 | 1: Life Before Federal Prison, 2: Life In Federal Prison, Justin Paperny |
Yesterday, a lawyer told me, “A release plan is not required. If it is not required, why would Adam write one for a case manager or a probation officer or anyone?” This is the second time I have heard this in a week. This was a clear case of someone taking...