The federal crime of mortgage fraud has become a priority for federal law enforcement officials, according to a recent FBI press release. Over the last few months, the FBI and Department of Justice have undertaken coordinated efforts to arrest and prosecute those allegedly responsible for committing mortgage fraud. No doubt,…
Financial identify fraud and financial identity theft are increasingly common crimes. A person can be a victim of these financial identity crimes without knowing about it for days, weeks or months. Once a victim of these crimes, it can be very costly and time consuming to get one’s credit and…
Financial identity theft crimes are becoming more common in Florida as people resort to using less cash in favor of credit and debit cards. The following are a couple examples of increasingly common ways people are committing financial identity fraud to obtain the names and numbers on credit and debit…
Federal criminal charges were brought against a Florida man who allegedly attempted to obtain a high paying job with forged documents and false information, according to an article at www.Reuters.com. The Florida suspect has been charged with three counts of wire fraud by federal prosecutors after allegedly sending fraudulent documents…
There has been a clear trend of fewer white collar crime cases being prosecuted in federal court over the last seven years under the Bush administration, according to an analysis done by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) which reviewed the records of thousands of federal criminal cases. TRAC also…
Lou Pearlman was the creator of two of the most famous young bands (The Backstreet Boys and N’Sync), but he was recently sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of the federal crimes conspiracy, money laundering and making false statements, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Pearlman defrauded more…
Criminal activity relating to stealing financial and identification information from the computer systems of individuals and businesses is increasing as the internet becomes more popular and people become more technologically advanced. Network security companies sell encryption software that presumably allows individuals and companies to protect the financial and identification information…
US-Cert and the United States Copyright Office have published information about the crime of copyright infringement and how to avoid committing and being prosecuted for that crime. The article can be located here. Downloading music or movies without authorization and stealing software are obvious examples of copyright infringement crimes. However,…
A Jacksonville, Florida owner of an assisted living facility (Adams Adult Family Care Home) was arrested last week for allegedly committing medicaid fraud. According to Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, the Jacksonville assisted living facility owner submitted false claims in excess of $20,000 to the Florida Medicaid program and was…