White-collar criminal charges involve accusations of fraud, embezzlement or other financial crimes. Companies sometimes refer cases to prosecutors. Other times, regulatory authorities indict specific people after an investigation. Those accused of white-collar...
Embezzlement is a very specific form of theft that involves someone abusing a position of trust to misappropriate resources, generally from their employer. People often imagine someone who is employed by an accounting firm or who occupies an executive suite when they...
Mortgage fraud is a somewhat common but not well understood form of financial misconduct. A lack of information about what constitutes mortgage fraud could put some people at risk of mortgage fraud accusations. You might think, as a homeowner, that your behavior when...
When you work in sales, training or an executive position, your role will often involve representing the company in non-professional environments. You might meet with clients at a restaurant or travel across the country to negotiate with a supplier. With those...
According to Steve Bernas, President and CEO of Chicago’s Better Business Bureau, identity theft is the fastest growing white collar crime. Recently, there’s been a huge spike in identity theft instances due to Covid-19. People are stealing personal information in an...
If you are looking for a forgery defense lawyer in Chicago or Illinois Fenbert Law is on your side. Despite the decline in the use of checks, men and women continue to be charged with forgery relating to bad checks. In Illinois, Forgery (720 ILCS 5/17-3 (a)) provides:...
The recent decision by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office not to retry Steven H. Davis, the former Chairman of Dewey & LeBoef, the once-prominent New York law firm that collapsed in bankruptcy in 2012 sheds new light on the difficulty of securing a...
Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal followed the recent trial and conviction of Michael Coscia in the Federal District Court in Chicago. This was the first prosecution for “spoofing” under Dodd-Frank’s anti-spoofing provision. Spoofing involves the...