If you are like most American adults, you probably use social media platforms to chronicle your thoughts, document your actions and engage in interactions with others’ content. However, if you are under criminal investigation, participating in these online spaces can...
If you’ve been accused of embezzlement, it’s a bit different than theft. Your employer may allege that you misappropriated funds. You were given access to those funds or those those accounts on purpose, as an employee. But you used them for your own gain. When facing...
Pharmaceutical companies must go through doctors to sell their products. They typically send medical representatives to doctors to get them to prescribe their drugs. However, doctors meet representatives from several companies. Accordingly, cases of pharmaceutical...
Many minor crimes are very obvious, such as when someone holds up a gas station or a bank. But white-collar crimes, and many financial crimes in general, tend to be a lot more complex. Exactly what happened may not be nearly as clear, and it’s very important to sort...
The term "honest services" refers to the duty of certain people, particularly public officials and employees, to act in the best interests of their employers or the public and to avoid conflicts of interest, self-dealing or acts of corruption. When someone uses their...
A person can get into deep legal jeopardy without leaving their home or office if they know what kind of damage they can do via computer. Of course, you don’t always have to be aware of or intend to cause harm to find yourself facing criminal charges. The cybercrime...
California is no stranger to white-collar crimes. Embezzlement is one example of such offenses. Recently, two siblings were accused of committing this crime in a scheme. Embezzling duo A woman spent approximately 25 years working at a California real estate company....
Investors in California search for opportunities where they expect returns to rise. Unfortunately, the desire to find a good investment can make people vulnerable to fraud. The fraud known as a stock pump-and-dump scheme misleads people about the future returns of an...
Some criminal charges are relatively straightforward, while others are far more complicated for the layperson to understand. That's before even getting into the differences between federal and California state laws. One of the prime examples of a confusing criminal...
As a medical patient in California, you want to trust that your physician is always making the right choices for your health and well-being. And most of the time, this is absolutely true, as most doctors are doing the best they can for their patients at all times. But...
