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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 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

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

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

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 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

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

The ongoing criminal insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam of the  Galleon Hedge Fund is a fascinating look at how top players in the stock market make enormous amounts of money. The seminal case of insider trading is In the Matter of Cady, Roberts & Co. In that case, the SEC imposed disciplinary sanctions against… Read More

Has your former boyfriend/girlfriend been posting threatening/libelous/scandalous comments about you on Facebook or Twitter. Has She/He been sending you or other people that you know emails with derogatory comments?  This is a developing area of the law but you do have some protection. Sending harassing messages via electronic communications is a crime in California under… Read More

Child Pornography prosecutions have soared over the last 15 years. Here are the numbers. The FBI has made more than 10,000 arrests since 1996 and the Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement Agency has made an additional 10,000 arrests since 2003. The U.S. Department of Justice states that child porn prosecutions are up 40% since 2006…. Read More