Bribery is a serious offense. If you are charged and convicted, you might face lengthy jail time and pay huge fines among other legal and personal consequences. Bribery, at the very basic, involves someone giving or promising a valuable item like money or a gift to a...
Embezzlement occurs when someone misappropriates funds or property entrusted to them. In California, embezzlement is a criminal offense with severe consequences. Here, you can learn more about embezzlement and the potential legal ramifications if convicted of this...
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...
Wire fraud is a serious offense that involves the use of electronic communication to perpetrate fraudulent schemes. Fraudsters leverage wire communications to steal money from their victims through a computer or mobile phone. Even though wire fraud has some...
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...
Providing patient care is the service that medical professionals offer. Frequently, they do not receive payment for those services directly from patients. Instead, they bill insurance companies. Sometimes, the party paying insurance claims are state insurance...
Criminal conspiracy charges arise when two or more individuals plan or agree to commit a crime and take further action to do so. In the context of wire fraud, the threshold for facing conspiracy charges involves a collaborative effort to intentionally deceive and...
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...
Facing criminal charges of any kind is overwhelming for anyone in California. One of the most common white-collar offenses is embezzlement. If you face charges for this crime, these are some defense strategies you can potentially use in your case. How embezzlement...
