Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's agreement, to narcotics and organized crime cases. But these days, U.S. attorney's offices increasingly use wiretaps in the white collar arena. While the technique is most commonly associated with the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York — which used wiretaps to help convict hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam of insider trading in 2011 — white collar wiretaps have since become more widespread, including in California. And they're vulnerable to challenges from the defense bar.
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Originally published in the November 10, 2014 edition of the Daily Journal
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