Bankruptcy fraud is a white collar crime that may involve such acts as intentionally filing false or incomplete forms, filing multiple times for bankruptcy in multiple states or the bribery of a court-appointed trustee. However, in the vast majority of the cases (close to 70%), the person or company accused of bankruptcy fraud is attempting… Read More
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California’s White Collar Crime Enhancement Law ( P.C. 186.11)
In the state of California, a sentence can be greatly enhanced for a pattern of similar felonies. California’s penal laws contain a provision known as “The White Collar Crime Enhancement” or the “Freeze and Seize” law. In addition to sanctions imposed at the time of conviction, a person can be subject to extra terms of… Read More
What Is White Collar Crime?
Although there is no authoritative definition for it, white collar crime has been prosecuted with increasing frequency, especially in the wake of corporate scandals in the early 2000s and the recent economic downturn. Here, San Francisco white collar criminal lawyer Christopher Morales will explain to you what white collar crime is. Edwin Sutherland first defined… Read More
California Telemarketing Fraud
Since its heyday in the 1990s, telemarketing fraud has been scaled back due to increasingly strict regulation and enforcement, including several high-profile sting operations by the FBI. In such an environment, it is now more important than ever for California businesses that transact business over the telephone to ensure compliance with state and federal laws… Read More
Mail Fraud in the State of California
Mail fraud cases can be very complicated. Mail fraud involves using the postal service to commit an unlawful offense, to include sending false written statements by mail. Charges are most often used to bring a person under federal jurisdiction, and they are usually brought in conjunction with charges that are other serious white collar crimes…. Read More
Don’t Let Flying Land You in Federal Court
On May 8, 2011, Rageh Ahmed Mohammed Al-Murisi, was flying on American Airlines Flight 1561 from Chicago to San Francisco, when he allegedly arose from his seat and began knocking on the cockpit door. Passengers and flight crew members held Mr. Al-Murisi down until police arrested him when the plane made a safe landing at… Read More
What Can I do if I have Been Listed on the Child Abuse Central Index?
After a line of cases found California’s Child Abuse Central Index (“CACI”) violated privacy rights, California implemented a set of procedures for the listing of an individual’s name on the index, and also for removing a person’s name from the CACI. Notice Based on a settlement agreement reached, beginning March 1, 2008, individuals to be… Read More
What is the Child Abuse Central Index?
In 1965, the California Legislature created the Child Abuse Central Index (the “CACI”) as a tool for state and local agencies to protect the health and safety of California children. Each year, hundreds, if not thousands of names are reported to the CACI. The names are submitted by police officers, sheriffs, and county welfare andprobation departments. … Read More
Sony Gamers May Run Risk of Identity-Theft
Sony has been in the news lately not because of an innovative new product, but rather due to hackers’ exploitation of Sony customers’ personal information. Sony is the maker of the popular video-game console PlayStation 3. Most gamers with a PlayStation 3 join the PlayStation Network so that they are able to buy games online and… Read More
Wife of Deloitte Partner charged with Insider Trading
Annabel McClellan pled guilty on April 5, 2011 to insider trading after she profited from information she overhead in a phone conversation that her husband made with a business person. She relayed that information to her sister and brother-in-law who own a trading company in London. They have been charged with insider trading by the… Read More