Category: White Collar Crime
“Don’t talk about your case”. Lawyers, particularly criminal defense lawyers, have been giving this advice to their clients since the dawn of time. Why? Well, lots of reasons. As …
Long gone are the days when politicians could sweep their misconduct under the rug. Regardless if that politician is a Central Valley California mayor, U.S. presidential candidate or any …
It’s a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act to make contributions in excess of a certain amount or to make contributions in the name of another person. The …
State and federal law enforcement have used so-called civil asset forfeiture for years to take the money and assets of those they suspected were involved in criminal activity for …
One of the many tools federal prosecutors use to prevent criminal defendants from trying to defend themselves is by freezing their assets. Federal law is clear that assets gained …
So the FBI and the Dept of Justice had it wrong… they didn’t need to compel Apple to write new code in order to hack an iPhone. Apparently they …
It goes something like this…. The FBI discovers someone they think is trading child pornography. The FBI gets a search warrant. They bust the person they think was trading. …
There is currently a circuit split between the Ninth Circuit and the Second Circuit regarding what prosecutors are required to prove in order to obtain an insider trading conviction. …
Two Ponderosa High School students have been charged in El Dorado County with secretly making a video of one of the students and a third minor having sex. The …
Criminal defense attorneys have noticed for the past five or six years that the focus of federal prosecutors across the country has been more and more on so-called white …