Securities fraud is an offense relating to deceptive conduct in the stock or commodities markets, involving schemes that convince people to put forward money or something else of value. The downfall of Enron in 2001 was a well-publicised securities ...
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Ponzi schemes are a type of fraud that takes money from people for investment, but the investment does not actually exist, and the funds from new investors are used to pay people who already made an investment. People who invest their money in these...
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Have alleged misconduct in the workplace can lead to serious criminal charges. Unfortunately, many company policies can be unethical or inappropriate, which may ride the fine line between unethical and illegal – thus making it difficu...
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Florida law enforcement and prosecutors take accusations of check forgery seriously. This is a criminal act of “dishonesty” which can be classified as a third-degree felony, which is punishable by up to fi...
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic stimulus checks have been paid out to large sectors of the population in the United States, with most individuals receiving $1200. With the introduction of these checks, fraud has also skyrocketed, and the IRS re...
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Honest services fraud is something you’ve probably seen in the news, though not using those words. One of the most high-profile cases in this area was the college admissions scandal in 2019, a large and complex scheme that defrauded universities. ...
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Federal prosecutors have charged Florida doctor, Moses D. Degraft-Johnson, with health care fraud. He is alleged to have taken $26 million from Medicaid, Medicare, and other health insurance agencies for fraudulently billed surgeries an...
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In 2019, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HSCO) arrested 118 unlicensed contractors in a sting operation - and of those 118 arrests, 9 of them were repeat offenders. Our seasoned defense attorney di...
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“Choices in life have consequences.” A Florida judge sent a clear message when sentencing a former Mrs. Florida beauty queen. She was sentenced to a month in federal prison plus five months of house arrest for social security fraud...
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A recently married 26-year-old Florida woman was arrested after allegedly trying to take $1 million from her 77-year-old husband. Lin Helena Halfon attempted to cash a substantial cashier’s check at a Tampa bank last month. According to authorit...
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