Category Archives: White Collar Crime
Credit Card Fraud By Retail Employees
Media stereotypes about theft by employees tend to evoke images of men in suits working late hours and embezzling funds from their companies’ accounts into their own personal accounts. They can only accomplish this if they have the trust of corporate leadership, if they are alone on the tenth floor of an office building… Read More »
Southwest Florida Men Face Criminal Charges For Organizing Fraudulent Turkey Hunt
If you can tear yourself away from all the clickbait, you will find that not everyone is doom scrolling their lives away. Your own sons may be glued to their video games and their disturbing short form videos, but there are young men out there somewhere who are accompanying their fathers on hunting expeditions…. Read More »
Lake Wales Lawyer Faces Grand Theft Charges For Allegedly Embezzling Money From Client’s Trust
As much as financial planners promote them as a status symbol, trusts are a handy way of concealing shady financial dealings. When you establish a trust, the assets in the trust do not legally belong to you. Instead, they exist in a legal no man’s land; it is possible for them to disappear into… Read More »
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 »