Category: White collar crimes

Simply put, yes, it is. However, there are state laws against it as well. Both federal and state laws give severe penalties for any type of forgery, counterfeiting or, altering documents and instruments. It depends on the type of document altered. For.

What is Money Laundering? Money laundering is the method of taking extremely large amounts of money spawned by criminal enterprises and then making it appear as though generated from a genuine source. Let’s say that a drug trafficker has money from drug.

George Landegger, CEO of Parsons & Whittemore, pleaded guilty in federal court of “failing to file a required report to the IRS about the account.” The CEO admitted that he failed to disclose $8.4 million held in an account at a Swiss.

Known as the formula, idea, pattern, physical device, compilation or process that could give an individual a competitive edge in their respective industries, trade secrets have existed for centuries to some degree. These are protected in a manner that prevents competitors or.

With income tax season in full force, families are frantically filing their returns online in hopes of having their refunds before Spring Break. Unfortunately, the likelihood an innocent tax filer will fall victim to fraud is stronger than ever this time of.

A California man won’t be home for Christmas. He’ll be spending the next five Holiday Seasons in a Nevada State Prison. Khachatur Zakaryan, 37, was sentenced Thursday in a Las Vegas federal court. When his five-years behind bars is done, he still.

Nevada’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden said the trio allegedly conned 390 individuals of over $5 million in the scheme which ran for ten years. Gregory Villegas, also known as Ray Matsui and Ray Mathis, Christine Gagnon, also known as Lisa Foster and.

In August, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were battling for the White House, a hacker group called ‘Shadow Brokers' released classified NSA hacking instruments. Then they laid claim they weren't in league with Moscow. To some, that same assertion now looks.

Kiran and Jyoti Matharoo may have turned the tables on Nigeria. The African nation, infamous for its email scams, is now looking for the ladies who scammed men willing to cheat on their wives or girlfriends. The Toronto based twosome posted thousands.

There wasn’t pizzazz when a casino heist targeted several St. Louis casinos in 2014. No guards to take out. No vaults to crack and no exotic European cars in which to make an escape. Instead, four Russians played the slots at local.