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Most Americans are very familiar with the college admissions scandal revealed earlier this year involving parents who paid to get their children enrolled in colleges under either false or misleading representations.
These parents made some poor choices—some of whom…
Category: Catfishing | Fraud | Romance Fraud
In 2010, a documentary called Catfish gave a name to a disturbing new online trend. The documentary followed a young man in New York as he built a romantic relationship online with a woman…who didn’t exist.
The man was…
Category: Fraud | Money Laundering
The American Bar Association (ABA) has been accused of trying to block Congressional efforts to close loopholes that enable money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking and a host of other crimes.
What the ABA opposes was spelled out quite succinctly…
Category: Bank Fraud | Federal Criminal Law | Fraud
The CEO of the Teachers Federal Credit Union recently pled guilty to federal bank fraud for assisting a former state senator obtain a fraudulent loan.
Federal prosecutors charged that the CEO loaned $10,000 to the former state senator currently…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Identity Theft
Identity theft has become a major criminal attraction, costing its average victim facing more than $90,000 in fraudulent charges. As those numbers continue to climb, the federal government is taking a hard line approach to stop it.
In today’s…
Category: Fraud | Mortgage Fruad | White Collar Crime
More than a decade after one of the worst financial crises in the mortgage lending industry that unfolded in 2008, law enforcement authorities continue to apprehend some who still choose to blatantly take unfair advantage of the nation’s homebuyers (and…
Category: Corporate Fraud | Fraud
The race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is approaching a record number of candidates, Each candidate will be proposing legislation and plans for the nation’s criminal justice system—something we all should study.
Take, for example, criminal justice proposals…
Category: Fraud | Mortgage Fruad | Tax Evasion
Former President Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort recently received relatively light prison sentences for two federal convictions, far below the federal sentencing guidelines, in two U.S. District Courts—one in the Northern District of Virginia and the other in the District…
Category: Fraud | White Collar Crime | Wire Fraud
Wire fraud involves the use of any form of electronic communication to defraud another party. It is often used by major criminal operations in the commission of offenses such as money laundering. As such, any form of wire fraud is…
Category: Federal Criminal Law | Fraud | Tax Evasion | Tax Law
The IRS estimates that nearly 17% of taxpayers fail to comply with the tax code, but that less than 1% is actually ever convicted of a tax crime. Service industry employees whose income is mostly derived from tips and other…
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