Almost everyone in California who has an email account has probably received a message from a “Nigerian Prince” at some point. The infamous Nigerian Prince scam is one of the oldest examples of wire fraud, and this familiar scam has cost gullible Americans millions of...
Residents of California may want to learn more about the case of a doctor who accepted money from drug and device manufacturers. She has a warning for future doctors and is speaking out at medical schools to warn future doctors of this type of fraud. Facing the...
Medical-related disinformation is already pernicious, but bad actors sometimes enrich themselves by falsifying clinical trial data. In one such case, the project manager of a clinical research firm was in a conspiracy to falsify clinical drug trial data. The manager...
Nearly every day, the crime of embezzlement appears in the news. Defending a charge of embezzlement often involves using two or more criminal defense techniques. In California, embezzling more than $950 is a felony that may carry three years in prison. Criminal...
How prepared are you for an unexpected civil lawsuit? There are many ways that a business can be targeted in the state of California. You can be named as the defendant in a whistleblower lawsuit, or you might be investigated for tax fraud. As the CEO of the company,...
For any business in California to survive and make the necessary profits, there must be a great deal of trust among founders, partners, managers and employees. When someone breaches their duty of loyalty and care they owe others, the business is likely to suffer a...
Technicalities can make a big difference in many criminal cases, and this has been further established by the U.S. Fifth Circuit in a case regarding Medicaid billing. California medical facilities are sales offices, in many ways, and they commonly look for any action...
California residents can find their lives turned upside down if they face charges of wire fraud. This is a serious white-collar crime that can impact everyone. What is wire fraud? Wire fraud is a white-collar, federal crime. It occurs when a person uses electronic...
Millions of people in California and around the county purchase items from Amazon's online marketplace each day. Amazon uses a complex algorithm to determine how the marketplace's millions of stores are sorted and ranked, but not all merchants play by the rules....
One of America's largest hospital chains is accused of Medicare fraud due to excessive, unnecessary emergency room admission rates. The Service Employees International Union covers five years of data, 2014-2019, that supports these allegations. SEIU analyzed Hospital...
