Recent Posts in White Collar Crimes Category
Posted on May 17, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
In Brownsville, Texas, a Cuban native wanted for counterfeiting was detained at the U.S. border by agents with Customs and Protection. Authorities say that the man, S.L.G., was caught after he ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A millionaire who experienced his fifteen minutes of fame last year has found himself in trouble with the law. M.A.P. III has been accused of wire fraud , mail fraud and bank fraud by federal ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
The federal government is working overtime to catch hackers that try to get into confidential databases. One such hacker was detained last week in the state of Texas for not only breaking into a ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2012 By Plano Criminal Defense Lawyer
A former billionaire is scheduled to appear in court this month almost three years after he was first arrested for several white collar crimes . Although his lawyers tried to stall the proceedings, a ...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Lauren Baumann created an investment pool that turned out to be a class Ponzi scheme. She would get loans from investors based on claims that the money would be used to create a Christian "battle ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Keeping with the theme from the last week-and-a-half, today's blog will evaluate a relatively new phenomenon. In San Diego, three women recently pleaded guilty to illegally creating an inventory ...
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Posted on Oct 10, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The cost of insurance fraud in the insurance industry is $80 billion per year. Some forms of insurance fraud, according to the FBI, are Workers' Compensation Fraud , Disaster Fraud, Property ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The explosion of white-collar crime occurred in the late 2000s when the economy took a nose dive. As such, people lost money -- lots of money. The real estate market was devastated by the economic ...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Bernie Madoff, in 2009, pleaded guilty to securities fraud, investment advisor fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, false statements, perjury, theft, and false filings with ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Embezzlement is a term that makes the crime seem like it would be a very complicated crime. Embezzlement is a criminal offense that is a form of financial fraud . This crime occurs when one has been ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
A Ponzi scheme is a scheme that is promoted on the basis of high financial returns or dividends that are not traditionally available through run-of-the-mill investments. This kind of scheme was named ...
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Posted on Oct 4, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The most common legal definition of fraud is when a person intentionally deceives another for personal gain or to damage a person. It is a common subsection of white-collar crime. There are untold ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
White-Collar crime, a term used to describe non-violent economic crimes, was coined in the late 1930s. This has been defined as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By Zendeh Del Law
The Texas Legislature passed House Bill 215 to fight the onslaught of credit card skimming. This bill has now paved the wave to increase the prosecutions for those who used credit card/debit card ...
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Posted on May 9, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Schilicter, 51, was charged in a 13-count indictment that alleges that he stole $680,000 from the 69-year-old widow of former Wendy's president and chairman Robert Barney. Schilicter was kicked of the ...
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Posted on May 6, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Money makes good lawyers go bad!!! Former State Representative Jim Solis pleaded guilty in a corruption case . Apparently, while Solis was in private practice he paid former State District Judge Abel ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Last August, a man entered the Salem District Court clerk's office and pretended to be his own brother. He then handed a clerk a death certificate that showed that he had passed away. The death ...
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Posted on Apr 18, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
The owner of a Rhode Island funeral home has been charged with embezzling money from living clients. He is charged with stealing over $27,000 from clients who purchased "pre need" contracts which ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano Criminal Defense Attorney
Jeffrey Bruteyn, former managing director of AmeriFirst Funding Corp, was sentenced to 25 years for a scheme that raised more than $50 million for more than 600 investors from Texas and Florida. Many ...
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