Sam Perroni is a former trial lawyer and adjunct professor of white-collar crime and trial advocacy. He served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, with an emphasis on prosecuting complex white-collar crime cases. After leaving the Department of Justice, Perroni was called back to serve as a Department of Justice Special Prosecutor in the first RICO case prosecuted in Arkansas. The author managed the Perroni Law Firm for twenty-nine years, handling a variety of criminal cases. He also served as a legal analyst for KARK-TV (NBC), Little Rock, Arkansas, and as a regular expert commentator for KARN-FM news radio, Little Rock, during the O.J. Simpson case. He was appointed as a Special Associate Justice of the Arkansas State Supreme Court and later to the Arkansas State Crime Lab Board, eventually serving as its chairman. Perroni lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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