Check Fraud in Minnesota: Penalties and Plea Options
What starts as a difficult financial situation or a bad decision can easily turn into a criminal conviction in Minnesota. Under Minnesota law, c...
Recognizing the Dangers of Internet Crime
Either for class or social network sites, the office or recreation, a myriad of people throughout the world go online every single day. Of course,...
Economic Crimes in a Bad Economy
Often in a bad economy there will be a noticeable increase in crimes such as investor fraud and other economic related crimes. This is especially true...
What Is The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act?
The Identity Theft Enhancement Act provides prosecutors with an additional basis for pursuing identity thieves.
Charged with Fraud: How is it Proven?
Fraud is generally considered a type of white collar crime. White collar crimes are nonviolent crimes involving financial deception. "Fraud" is a re...
Fraud Crimes and Charges
Fraud is against both state and federal law and civil and criminal law. Certain types of fraud such as stock fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud and ...
Employment Schemes
Frauds conducted through your employment aren’t necessarily new. Throughout the years, theft by deception on the job has included embezzling m...
Insurance Fraud Statutes
While insurance fraud is as old as the insurance industry, insurers and government officials have found the costs for insurance fraud rising in ...
Investment Fraud
Investment fraud is the main concentration for the FBI financial crimes section and the US Secret Service’s F.I.F. task force. Their main focus is...
Loan Modification Scams
Loan modification scams have been increasing steadily throughout the country, particularly in relationship to rising foreclosures in the housing marke...
Mail Wire Fraud
Mail fraud and wire fraud are two separate types of federal statues which involve similar conduct. Mail fraud arises where an individual makes false...
Tax Fraud
Tax fraud is the crime of willfully failing to pay taxes to the IRS or your state’s taxing entity.
Anti-Trust Violations
A person or corporation can be accused of anti-trust violations by either a state or the federal government, or by a lawsuit brought by an individua...
Mortgage Fraud
Mortgage fraud occurs when someone knowingly and intentionally misrepresents information in the attempt to obtain a mortgage. This can include an in...
Foreclosure Fraud and Scam Defense
The recent rush of home foreclosures has led to many foreclosure scams. A foreclosure rescue scam can happen in a number of different ways, ea...
Home Insurance Fraud
Home insurance fraud is insurance fraud which involves activity performed with an intent to defraud or deceive a homeowners insurance company in ord...
Health Insurance Fraud
A 300-350 word article generally explaining health insurance fraud, overview common schemes/types of health insurance fraud (in bullets), briefly expl...
Forensic Loan Audit Scam
Forensic loan auditors are utilized in connection with foreclosure matters. Frequently, forensic loan audit scams emerge in connection with home for...
Misappropriation of Funds
The misappropriation of funds is stealing money or other property that was entrusted to the perpetrator but is owned by someone else, who is the victi...
Internet Crime
Internet crime, also known as cyber crime, is as diverse as the internet itself. Any crime that occurs via the internet can be considered an inter...
White Collar Crime
White Collar Crime (WCC) is a term that was coined in the 1930’s that referred to crimes that were being committed by otherwise highly respected a...
Insurance Fraud
Insurance fraud comprises a variety of fraudulent activities committed by applicants for insurance, policyholders, third-party claimants, or profess...
Insider Trading
Insider trading, according to the SEC, is trading that takes place when those privileged with confidential information about significant events ...
Stocks are down but white-collar crime is on the rise
Early one morning in April, a scam operation took just a couple of hours to swindle dozens of investors out of t...
Joint Venture Criminal Offenses
A joint venture is a business undertaking by two or more persons engaged in a single defined project. The ...
Tax Evasion
Tax evasion is fraud that is committed by falsely filing tax return statements, or by not filing any tax return to the government. The U.S. Departme...
