A year ago, you secured a loan to purchase your dream home. Unfortunately, you're now faced with a homebuyer's worst nightmare and are wrongfully being accused of mortgage fraud. You fear that the accusations will mean losing your home and compromising your...
White Collar Crimes
What should you know about business tax evasion?
As a small business owner, you are responsible for keeping accurate financial records and filing your business's tax returns each year. This can be a complex process and subject to error, especially if you complete this task without the assistance of a certified...
What does white collar crime mean?
We talk about it all of the time: white collar crime. But what does the term mean? Essentially white collar crime is a crime that is committed by professionals- those who wear white business shirts with a collar. White collar crime usually involves bankers and those...
Have you committed forgery?
Imagine these three scenarios. Which one is forgery?Your spouse asks you to pick up some groceries and hands you her credit card. You use it and sign her name on the credit slip. Your mother is sleeping but a COD delivery comes. You write the check and sign her name....
How Many Of Us Commit Victimless Crimes?
Most of us like to separate ourselves from the word "crime." I'd never commit a crime, we say.Yet what we may not consider is that most of us at some time or another are the perpetrators of a victimless crime. Have you ever rolled through a stop sign, or lost...
How ten little words can protect your future
When our forefathers created the Constitution, they did so with a great eye toward freedom and unfair prosecution of crimes. As such, they laid out some very specific amendments that help you guarantee those rights. But it is up to you to protect them--not up to the...
The sudden wave of EB-5 visa prosecutions
If you read the papers, you know that EB-5 visa cases are in the news. White House senior advisor Jared Kushner's sister recently drew attention for offering investor visas in China for $500,000.Many are convinced this is very wrong, and the federal government has...
