According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), federal weapons convictions declined 5.8 percent in Fiscal Year 2015 from the previous fiscal year. In 2014, the U.S. Justice Department secured 6,373 weapons convictions, but the number of convictions declined in…
Month: November 2015
2015
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law | Immigration Crimes
Calls for “prison reform” are now coming from every political corridor. The reason is obvious: American taxpayers cannot continue to bear the exorbitant costs of the nation’s prison system. Last year CBS News reported that U.S. taxpayers are paying about…
2015
Category: Drug Crime | Drug Trafficking
Multi-jurisdictional drug task force sets up anonymous snitch site
Designed to create a partnership between the public and law enforcement, StopDrug.Houston.org is a multijurisdictional website aimed at five counties and six cities, including Houston, encouraging the public to submit…
2015
Category: Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
He was a flamboyant criminal defense attorney, well- known in the state criminal courts in Harris County for his courtroom theatrics and his contentious, often contemptuous, demeanor before the trial judges presiding over the cases he was defending.
By…
2015
Category: Corporate Fraud | Healthcare Fraud | White Collar Crime
The Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission, along with other federal regulatory agencies, are following the lead of traditional law enforcement agencies like FBI and DEA in the use of paid informants, also known as “whistle blowers.”
Whistleblowers…