President Donald J. Trump not only believes he is above the rule of law but, according to the Los Angeles Times, he believes he is the law. This dictatorial disrespect for the law has led the president to flaunt his…
Category: Federal Criminal Law
2018
Category: Computer Crime | Cyber Crimes | Federal Criminal Law | Hacking
A 35-year-old Richmond, California man was recently found guilty of damaging a protected computer and computer intrusion into newspaper sites following a six-day federal trial. He no faces up to 23 years in federal prison for his actions.
What…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law
A former Honolulu police chief has been charged with a litany of offenses, including bank fraud, identity theft, obstruction of justice, and a conspiracy involving several other police officers.
He faces federal charges following a federal grand jury indictment…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Forfeiture
Under the federal civil asset forfeiture law, the U.S. Government can seize a person’s home, car, money, or property if law enforcement suspects any of these assets were involved in criminal activity. The person from whom the assets are seized…
2018
Category: Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
On September 17, 2014, Terrence Byrd and a companion, Latasha Reed, went to a Budget car rental affiliate in Wayne, New Jersey. Ms. Reed rented a Ford Fusion, signing an agreement that she had a valid driver’s license and had…
2018
Category: Bitcoin | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Money Laundering
The term “money laundering” was first used at the turn of the 20th Century. It was a label used against organizations who took income derived from illegal activity and washed it into the flow of legal money in the general…
2018
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Harvard Law School.
That Dershowitz is a brilliant legal scholar is not in dispute. He has demonstrated that brilliance in courtrooms defending some of the nation’s most…
2018
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform | Federal Criminal Law
It started out as a kids’ game sometime after 2003: Mexican kids, some of whom were teenagers, are known to gather at concrete culverts marking the shortest span and the shallowest point of the Rio Grande River, separating the U.S.…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | terrorism
It has been said that a civilized society can be measured by its criminal justice system, especially how it treats the worst of its lot.
Since September 11, 2001, terrorists, whether foreign-born or domestic-reared, have been considered by the…
2018
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Violent Crime
Although many serious violent crimes can be charged as federal offenses, such crimes are generally charged and prosecuted at the state level. However, this may be about to change according to some new initiatives being put forth the by U.S.…