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"Judge Orders Former Bristol-Myers Executive to Write Book"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this New York Times article discussing a creative sentencing term imposed by a federal judge on a white-collar offender.  Here are a few of the details: On Monday, Judge Ricardo M. Urbina of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, sentenced a former senior pharmaceutical executive to write a book. Earlier this year the executive, Dr. Andrew G. Bodnar, a former senior vice president at Bristol-Myers Squibb, had pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the federal government about the company?s efforts to resolve a patent dispute over the blood thinner Plavix. The judge sentenced Dr. Bodnar to two years of probation during which he is to write a book about his experience connected to the case...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).