Category Archives: White Collar Crimes
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 »
Making Threats Is Extortion, Except When It’s Your Job
In certain professions, it is your job to lie. You would not make it very far as a hairstylist, politician, call girl, or professional gambler if your words and your facial expressions always revealed the truth. Of course, the First Amendment right to freedom of speech protects your right to say things that you… Read More »
Florida Wiretapping Laws
“This call may be recorded for quality or training purposes.” When you hear these words, you dread what comes next, namely a customer service representative giving you the runaround, so that, if you lose your temper, the call center can play the recording of the call for new employees in training to show them… Read More »
Can You Get Criminal Charges For Breach Of Fiduciary Duty?
If you have a fiduciary duty to someone, you probably know it, even if you have never heard the word “fiduciary.” Fiduciary duty is a legal responsibility not to mishandle someone else’s money, and the duty applies when you have access to someone else’s money in a formal capacity. If your job requires you… Read More »
Indian River County Woman Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Her Role In Romance Scam
The world changes more quickly than the names of laws do. For example, you can be charged with wire fraud if there is evidence that you knowingly made false statements for your own financial gain, and the medium of communication through which you made those statements could, in theory, be attached to a wire. … Read More »
Broward County Pastor Faces Criminal Charges For Allegedly Forging Quit Claim Deed
Statistically speaking, criminal defense lawyers are not most likely to utter the words “quit claim deed” in a courtroom. In fact, if you know what a quit claim deed is, you probably found out about them while engaging the services of a family law attorney or estate planning lawyer. Quit claim deeds transfer ownership… Read More »
Clinic Owner And Respiratory Therapist Accused Of Medicaid Fraud
Healthcare billing in the United States is anything but a straightforward matter. Just try to make sense of a bill that you have received from a doctor’s office or hospital. When you call your insurance company to try to figure out why your bill is so expensive, you end up still responsible for paying… Read More »