Public Hearing - March 13, 2013

 

 

Public Hearing on Proposed Amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines

Washington, DC

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.

 

Notice

Pursuant to Rule 3.2 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure of the United States Sentencing Commission, a public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, 2013, from 8:30 a.m.– 5:30 p.m.

The public hearing will be held in the Federal Judicial Center, Classrooms A, B, and C, on the concourse level of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, One Columbus Circle, N.E., Washington, DC.

The purpose of the public hearing is for the Commission to receive testimony from invited witnesses on proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines.

Transcript

8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Opening Remarks   (8:30 a.m.)

Panel I   Economic Espionage: Part I (Executive Branch Panel)  (8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.)

John Lynch
Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Thomas P. Reilly
Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Louis E. Bladel, III
Section Chief, Counterintelligence Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Stanford K. McCoy
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Intellectual Property and Innovation
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Panel II   Economic Espionage: Part II  (9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.)

John W. Powell
Vice President and General Counsel
American Superconductor (AMSC)

David Debold
Chair
Practitioners Advisory Group

David Hirschmann
Senior Vice President
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Break    (10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.)

Panel III    Setser / 3E   (11:00 a.m. - Noon)

Charles E. Samuels, Jr.
Director
Bureau of Prisons

Vijay Shanker
Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
Criminal Division
U.S. Department of Justice

Lisa Hay
Assistant Federal Public Defender
Portland, Oregon

Lunch    (Noon - 1:30 p.m.)

Panel IV   Pre-Retail Medical Products  (1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.)

John Roth
Director, Office of Criminal Investigations
Food and Drug Administration

Denise C. Barrett
National Sentencing Resource Counsel
Federal Public and Community Defenders

David Debold
Chair
Practitioners Advisory Group

Panel V   FDA/Counterfeit Drugs/Counterfeit Military  (2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.)

John Roth
Director, Office of Criminal Investigations
Food and Drug Administration

John Lynch
Chief, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Denise C. Barrett
National Sentencing Resource Counsel
Federal Public and Community Defenders

Break    (3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

Panel VI   Tax  (4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)

Kathryn Keneally
Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division
U.S. Department of Justice

Edward F. Cronin
Division Counsel and Associate Chief Counsel, Criminal Tax
Internal Revenue Service

David Debold
Chair
Practitioners Advisory Group

Teresa Brantley, Chair
Probation Officers Advisory Group

Richard Albert
New York Council of Defense Lawyers

Adjourn    (5:30 p.m.)