Category Archives: White Collar Crimes
Turkey Hunt Fraud Leads To Criminal Charges For Four Florida Men
If you want to know how much the world has changed in the past 25 years, rewatch the movie Knockaround Guys, in which four tough guys from New York city end up going on a series of misadventures in Montana. Today, if some dudes from New York were holed up in a hotel room… Read More »
You Can Go Free On Bond Even After A Guilty Verdict
Last week was an emotional and financial rollercoaster for Kisean Anderson, a South Florida recording artist known by his stage name Sean Kingston. Anderson and his mother faced trial after pleading not guilty to wire fraud charges after prosecutors alleged that they defrauded businesses out of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of luxury… Read More »
Are Swiss Bank Accounts A Red Flag For Fraud, Or Is The IRS Just Jealous?
It isn’t just your imagination if you think that ordinary people like us pay dearly for minor breaches of the rules, while the wealthy brazenly act like the laws of nations do not apply to them. Swiss bank accounts are a powerful symbol of this. People who can afford to do so stash their… Read More »
Broward Woman Convicted Of Fraud After Small Business Loan Investment Scheme
The good news about Ponzi schemes is that they are not as insidious as pyramid schemes. In a Ponzi scheme, the person soliciting payment misleads others into believing that they are paying money to him or her for an investment, in which the payors will eventually receive a return, whereas the speaker knows that… Read More »
Credit Card BIN Attacks
Most financial crimes are not as elaborate as identity theft. It is possible to cause financial losses simply by stealing someone’s credit card or credit card information, and there are plenty of ways to do this, from surreptitiously photographing a card number from a credit card or a document where the number is written… Read More »
When Does Extreme Couponing Become A Crime?
Everything is so expensive in Florida that the only ways to afford anything are coupons and crime. The problems begin when reasonable minds disagree about when coupon shopping becomes a crime. Florida law recognizes the criminal offense of coupon frauds when a customer knowingly attempts to redeem fraudulent coupons or counterfeits coupons and distributes… Read More »
What Should You Do If Someone Close To You Gets Charged With A Crime?
A brother and sister from southeastern Florida are currently facing criminal charges for Medicare fraud. Ted Albin of Stuart and Erin Foley of Loxahatchee own a durable medical equipment (DME) company that provides supplies such as wheelchairs and supplemental oxygen equipment. Their company allegedly filed more than $9 million of fraudulent claims to Medicare. … Read More »
Two Broward Men Face Charges In UberEats Scam
If you or I were to try to scam UberEats, we would probably claim that we never received our food, so that UberEats would send us a replacement meal and not make us pay for it, or else it would give us a refund, so we could get our next delivery meal free. If… Read More »
Retired Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Financial Crimes Related To An Investment Scheme
All defendants in criminal cases have the right to plead not guilty and go to trial, but more than 90 percent of defendants plead guilty. It is not only the defendants who cannot afford their own lawyers and are represented by public defenders who plead guilty; some of this number includes wealthy defendants who… Read More »
Florida Woman Pleads Guilty To Financial Crimes After Living Under False Identity For More Than A Decade
In the movie Identity Thief, Jason Bateman plays a nebbish named Sandy Patterson who realizes that he has unknowingly revealed his identifying information to a scam artist, played by Melissa McCarthy. Throughout most of the movie, McCarthy’s character convinces almost everyone she meets that she is the real Sandy Patterson. In real life, most… Read More »
