Category Archives: White Collar Crime
Guilty But Free On Bond?
The anticipation is the worst part of being a defendant in a criminal case. You are supposed to have a court hearing within three days of your arrest, but those are the longest three days of your life. If you plead not guilty, then every piece of news that reaches you during pretrial discovery… Read More »
Palm Beach County Woman Asks For Immunity To Testify Against Co-Defendant In Financial Crime
The best-case scenario in a criminal case is if prosecutors agree to drop the charges against you, but they only do that if they become convinced that it is not possible to convict you or if you agree to cooperate with the state in an ongoing criminal case. In the former scenario, it is… Read More »
Financial Crime Investigations In The Workplace
Succeeding in business almost always involves stepping on people and taking a lenient approach toward the truth; no one ever said that capitalism was pretty. Despite this, there are times when lying in a business context is against the law. Most of the time, taking the sleaze of sleazy businessmen a little bit too… Read More »
BIN Attacks: A New Form Of Credit Card Fraud
Especially around the holidays, people are hastening to retail stores and ecommerce websites with stolen credit cards and seeing how much loot they can buy before they get caught. Likewise, banks are on high alert for fraudulent charges. You have probably gotten some texts or emails this season that were obviously scams, some messages… Read More »
Insider Trading
Most financial crimes are some variation on theft, even though the property being stolen is less tangible than cash or physical items. For example, identity theft is when you steal confidential information, such as bank account numbers, that enables you to make transactions in someone else’s name without the person’s consent. Wire fraud is… Read More »
Real Estate Transaction Fraud
If you own real estate, you have financial security that most people don’t have. The majority of millionaires in the United States have a net worth of just over one million dollars because they bought their family home at an affordable price and paid down the mortgage, so now its value exceeds one million… Read More »
Is Internet Real Estate Crime Conspiracy The New Organized Retail Theft?
In the old days, the courts recognized nonviolent petty crimes as acts of financial desperation and not of malevolence. Even in the nineteenth century, when Les Miserables was written, everyone understood that no one steals a loaf of bread in order to get rich; they do it because they are hungry and cannot afford… Read More »
Tampa Woman Accused Of Fraudulently Obtaining Official Documents And Government Benefits
Most cases of identity theft do not involve a defendant literally pretending to be someone else. A case where John pastes his photo onto Sam’s driver’s license, introduces himself to people as Sam, wears a “Sam” nametag at work, and receives paychecks issued to Sam is the kind of identity theft that occurs in… Read More »
Two South Florida Men Face Criminal Charges After A Series Of Fraudulent UberEats Transactions
Just as a new wave of COVID gains momentum in the distance, South Floridians have finally started to unlearn some of the bad habits we picked up during the pandemic. We have returned to the habit of greeting each other and making small talk instead of only ever taking a break from doom scrolling… Read More »
Not All Fake Documents Are Forgery
Fake isn’t always bad. How many extraverts have cultivated their social confidence by adopting a “fake it ‘til you make it” strategy; fake sociability can get you through a social occasion as easily as real sociability. Likewise, imitations of expensive consumer products are often just as good as the real thing; “my jewelry is… Read More »