Las Vegas Crime: From Slapstick to High-Tech

Cheating, fraud, and theft are genuine problems for the gambling industry in Las Vegas. There’s all kinds of crimes committed in Sin City. Often they involve a casino. The crimes in casinos range from a Three Stooges type farce to something worthy.

As reported by Chris Herring over at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the trial of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi is scheduled to commence next Monday. And now the government has obtained Tannin’s e-mails from his private Google.

The focus of many white-collar criminal offenses is fraud. However, fraud itself is not a crime, it is simply a “concept” that is an integral aspect of several criminal statutes. Fraud is at the core of a variety of federal criminal statutes:.

The trial of Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin got underway last week. As reported by attorney Jacob Zamansky in Forbes and the New York Daily News, the parties gave opening statements on Thursday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Sinclair.

Edward T. Stein, a former hedge fund manager, was sentenced to nine years in prison in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York for a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of $46 million, according to Business Week. Stein.

Two Nevada lawsuits have been settled with  individuals who claimed a sheriff’s deputy had violated their rights, in  separate incidents, when they were pulled over for speeding on Interstate 80. While on the side of the road, the men were searched for.

Savannah personal injury attorney, Benjamin Eichholz, entered a plea in federal court yesterday to obstructing a Department of Labor (DOL) investigation by repeatedly transmitting false and misleading documents to the Department of Labor and by making false and misleading statements to investigators. Eichholz,.

WALLA WALLA -- A woman charged with stealing money from Banner Bank while employed as a loan servicing agent has been sentenced to a term on a work crew. Suzette A. Brock, 39, of 262 N.E. 11th Ave., Milton-Freewater, pleaded guilty Monday.

Yet another Ponzi schemer has made headlines on his way to federal incarceration. Algird M. Norkus, a 67-year-old man from Aurora, Illinois, was recently convicted by the Northern District of Illinois in Rockford to a 63-month term of imprisonment after pleading guilty.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing its pursuit of enforcement actions against insider trading, and this year is no exception. Notably, the SEC just recently filed an enforcement action against a former executive at a beverage company. The complaint.