Category Archives: White Collar Crime
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 »
Employees Of Research Lab Convicted For The Role In Fraudulent Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are important to the practice of medicine, but they are also important to the practice of law. Every time you have taken a prescription drug, it had to go through clinical trials before getting FDA approval so that your doctor could legally prescribe it. Likewise, the recommendation your doctor follows about the… Read More »
Three Florida Men Arrested For Real Estate Theft Conspiracy
So much of what happens in Florida is the stuff of nightmares, and that is why we Floridians love it. Anyone else would be scared of the alligators, iguanas, and Nile monitor lizards that saunter down the perfectly paved sidewalks, but Floridians welcome our reptilian neighbors. Anyone except a Floridian would be terrified of… Read More »
Florida Woman Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud After Romance Scam On Elderly Victim
Wire fraud is a federal crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The crime occurs when a defendant knowingly makes false statements using a communication device such as a telephone, tablet, or computer, with the intention of getting the victim to pay money to the defendant or a conspirator. Fraud accomplished through… Read More »