Mary Shannon Little
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Mary Shannon Little is both a criminal lawyer and a professional investigator. Mary has worked as a lead investigative strategist in cases involving securities and accounting fraud, racketeering, copyright infringement, FCPA violations, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, antitrust violations and various state and federal regulatory matters. She has been a key player in many litigation support, monitorship and compliance matters.

Mary has worked on numerous internal investigations for Fortune 500 companies that required reporting to courts, Boards of Directors or state and federal oversight agencies. She has designed and implemented ethical and legal compliance programs for financial, corporate and commercial clients. Mary is experienced in monitoring criminally-controlled enterprises and was appointed to serve as court officer for the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union’s Local 100 and as deputy compliance officer for the Long Island carting industry.

Following a career as a white collar criminal defense lawyer, and later as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York specializing in high-profile corruption cases, Mary worked as a Managing Director for two well-known international investigative consulting firms.

Mary Shannon Little received her BA degree magna cum laude from the University of San Diego in 1978 and her JD degree from New York University School of Law in 1982.

Blog Entries by Mary Shannon Little

Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment

Posted November 2, 2010 | 02:23:49 (EST)

In the last two weeks, "Man up" has become the rallying cry of the self-proclaimed conductor of the Tea Party Express and Mama Grizzly-in-Chief Sarah Palin. First at a rally held in Reno, Nevada on October 18th, Palin demanded that her fellow Republican politicians "man up" and support the...

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The Underwear Bomber Laid Bare

Posted February 12, 2010 | 17:12:58 (EST)

In response to recent criticism about the FBI's handling of the Underwear Bomber's interrogation, administration officials disclosed his decision to begin cooperating with federal authorities. This unorthodox disclosure of Abdulmutallab's cooperation raises serious concerns about this Administration's handling of cooperating witnesses in terrorism investigations.

The Washington Post

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Homeland Security Demands Better Analysts, Not Just Better Data

Posted February 2, 2010 | 17:17:00 (EST)

The U.S. has suffered three terrorist attacks over the last three months: the Fort Hood shootings by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the failed Christmas Day bombing by the so-called Underwear Bomber, and the assassination by suicide bombing of seven high-ranking American intelligence officials by a Jordanian double agent in Khost....

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Insider Trading: How is a Secret Best Kept?

Posted November 12, 2009 | 12:14:10 (EST)

"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead." Even before the internet, cell phones, and the 24/7 news cycle, Benjamin Franklin -- the man credited with that adage -- understood there was no such thing as a kept secret. Corporate America knows the keeping of its secrets...

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Economic Reform is Overdue

Posted October 12, 2009 | 11:07:30 (EST)

More than a year after the cataclysmic collapse of Lehman Brothers just about everyone on Main and Wall Streets agrees that the Market Crisis of 2008 was the economic equivalent of 9/11. Like that tragic event, it galvanized legislators, commentators, and presidential candidates to promise a top-to-bottom overhaul of the...

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