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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,…
Category: Drug Crime | Federal Criminal Law
Mens Rea is a legal term that refers the mental state of “criminal intent.” It is the state of mind that an individual must possess when committing an act to be guilty of a crime. Some crimes require a specific…
Category: Corporate Fraud | Federal Criminal Law | Healthcare Fraud | Uncategorized | White Collar Crime
In a major speech at New York City University this past September, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates announced that the U.S. Justice Department had issued new policy guideline that would re-focus federal corporate criminal investigations towards holding individuals responsible…
Category: Appeals | Federal Criminal Law | Guns
According to FBI statistics, there were 11,961 murders committed in the U.S. in 2014. 8124 of the murders were committed using handguns. 262 people were killed with shotguns. 248 murders were committed with rifles, including “military style assault rifles” (AR-15s…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Internet Sex Crimes | Sex Crimes
The Government is always trying to find a way to insert itself into the private lives individuals so it can better monitor and regulate our lives. Big Brother is no longer an Orwellian nightmare. It is an ever-increasing, insidious…
Category: Bank Fraud | Federal Criminal Law
Due to devastating effects of the massive fraud committed within the financial sector over the years leading to the 2008 financial meltdown, bank fraud is now considered by the Government to be one of its most serious priorities.
Bank…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
On December 3, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service released its 2015 Annual Investigation Report (Report). The Criminal Investigation unit (CI) focused its investigative efforts at terrorist financing, identity theft, cybercrime, public corruption, and money laundering. The number of investigations in…
Category: Corporate Fraud | Federal Criminal Law | White Collar Crime
Publicly, politicians and top law enforcement officials are loudly proclaiming the days of light fines and settlements with corporations to resolve allegations of criminal wrongdoing are over.
Policies Encouraging Compliance and Disclosure Create the Corporate Snitch
Under a…
Category: Appeals | Drug Crime | Drug Manufacturing | Drug Trafficking | Federal Criminal Law
Iobal Makkar and Gaurav Sehgal operated a small town convenience store in northeastern Oklahoma named “Gitter Done.”
Big Mistake to Ask Law Enforcement for Help
Questions arose about a particular incense the two men carried on the…
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