Prosecutors Call for Updated White Collar Crime Laws
New York's antiquated laws against public corruption, computer crimes and fraud -- including swindles targeting the elderly -- would be beefed up under a series of wide-ranging proposals announced by a task force of state prosecutors and legal experts.
The task force also recommended a major sea change in the current state grand-jury practice concerning the immunity automatically granted to witnesses -- often viewed as a constraint to investigators -- as way of making it easier to prosecute all kinds of offenses.