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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Several years ago we posted a piece about the FBI seizing and continuing to run a child pornography website between November 16, 2012 and December 2, 2012. The site, which had 5000 customers, was seized as part of a large…
Category: Corporate Fraud | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
Americans over the past five or six decades have been lulled into believing white collar crime—crimes committed by the affluent or large companies (fraud, embezzlement, defective products, etc.)—is more socially acceptable than “blue collar” crime—crimes more often tied to street…
Category: Bank Fraud | Federal Criminal Law | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Most people have not heard of the former Toronto broker George Georgiou who was convicted in February 2010 on one count of conspiracy, four counts of securities fraud and four counts of wire fraud in federal court and sentenced to…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law | Guns
There’s no question that Des Moines, Iowa resident David Anthony Tumea had serious mental health problems in 2012.
There is also no question that Tumea had a bizarre proclivity for collecting, making, and possessing anything that could be used…
Category: Appeals | Criminal Law | Federal Criminal Law
Ivan Garcia-Lopez probably wishes he had taken his meal somewhere else on the evening February 5, 2014. He was living in a single-wide trailer home in Wharton County, Texas, with Jaime Garcia and his brother, Yonari.
Felony Arrest Warrant…
Category: Criminal Law | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip M. Stinson is recognized as probably the nation’s best authority on police misconduct. Over a ten-year period, beginning in 2005, Stinson compiled a database of 11,000 cases of misconduct involving nearly 9,000 officers.
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Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The official website for DHS says its mission is “to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards.”
Department…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
In 1996, Congress enacted the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA). The Act is codified as amended in 18 U.S.C. § 3563A. This statute requires restitution for any Title 18 crime in which the victim has suffered “pecuniary loss.”
Mandatory…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
Sentencing the federal court is a mess.
1984 was a bad year for the federal criminal justice system. The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 83 to 3, and House of Representatives, by a vote 316 to 91, enacted…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Illegal Pornography | Internet Sex Crimes
Roughly, 95 to 97 percent of federal defendants plead guilty. Perhaps that explains why criminal trials, and their ensuing verdicts, attract the most public attention and scrutiny.
Sentencing is treated like some inconsequential procedural necessity when in most cases,…
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