Stopping and penalizing human trafficking has become a top priority of the federal government. Every state has criminal laws prohibiting human trafficking and imposing severe penalties, including Florida, FS 787.06. Federal law enforcement focuses it...
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Bankruptcy is the state of owing debts greater than one has assets and being unlikely to be able to pay the debt. Early American bankruptcy law was established primarily by the states, causing there to be a wide discrepancy between how bankruptcy was...
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continues to investigate, charge, and prosecute criminal cases against business owners who may have violated the law creating the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) intended to help small and large companies weather ...
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Florida law governing the possession of firearms by someone who is under a domestic restraining order is found in Florida Statute § 790.233, which provides the following: “A person may not have in his or her care, custody, possession, o...
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The grand jury is a fundamental part of the American criminal justice system. The purpose of the grand jury is to protect individuals from being charged with serious crimes purely on the whim of an individual prosecutor. The grand jury’s prot...
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Possessing, brandishing, or using a firearm during the commission of a violent crime or while violating the control substance act brings extraordinarily harsh penalties under federal law. Congress enacted a network of federal statutes that empowers ...
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In Florida, criminal convictions carry a wide range of punishments in addition to the formal sentence imposed by the court. The court’s sentence can include incarceration, fines, and a period of conditional probation. But after the sentence is serv...
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Law enforcement in the United States has used a wide range of tactics to counter the success of crimes committed by individuals and criminal organizations. Everyone knows that people charged and convicted of criminal activity can be sent to prison an...
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The IRS processed over 164 million tax returns for the 2021 tax year. With that many returns filed by individuals from every walk of life, from every educational background, including professional tax preparers and novices doing their own taxes for t...
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The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article I, § 12 of Florida’s Constitution prohibit law enforcement from conducting unreasonable searches or seizures of our person, houses, papers, and effects. And the U.S. Supreme Court has decla...
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