5 Common White Collar Crime Myths
White-collar crime is a phrase most people are familiar with, and it comes with some untrue assumptions. White-collar crime is often seen as a crime limited to the rich and ...
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Unfair Trade Practices to Look Out for in Your Business
Trade practices are a business’ operating policy or procedure, including confidential practices that allow a business to have a leg up on their competitors. Unfair trade practices are any business ...
What to Know Before Being Pulled Over for a DWI
Drunk driving is a serious offense that can lead to severe penalties. These penalties can affect the offender for years, even a lifetime. Before getting pulled over for a DWI ...
What Are the Consequences of Embezzlement?
Embezzlement, like many forms of white-collar crime, is prosecuted mercilessly and the penalties that an offender faces can be very harsh when compared to the crime that was committed. Embezzlement ...
Motion to Suppress Evidence
A lot of times on my first jail visit I’m told that the police (federal, state) have done something that my client thinks is wrong. Nothing was more interesting than ...
Revocation of Supervised Release- Acceptance of Responsibility?
This past week seemed like revocation week. I ended up with federal revocations of supervised release in three different courts. District of New Mexico, Western District of Texas- El Paso ...
Unreasonable guideline-How do I get probation…
2G2.2– Guideline for Possession of a Visual Depiction involving the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor 18 U.S.C. § 2252 That is a fancy way of saying Possession of Child Porn. ...
What Is a Bad Faith Insurance Dispute?
You may have seen those heartwarming insurance commercials where they assert to be there for people despite what life may throw at them. This, oftentimes, is far from the reality ...
What Is Tax Fraud?
The government obviously takes instances of tax fraud very seriously. This is due, in no small part, to the fact that it is essentially a fraud committed against the government ...
The Government Just “Froze My Account”
How can this happen? The government, particularly the federal government can and does seize cars, trucks, boats, planes, hotels, and money with surprising regularity. One Congressman described it as a ...