WHITE COLLAR CRIME LAWYERS

• Antitrust Violations – Abusive practices harming trade and commerce such as price fixing, restraints, price discrimination, monopolization.

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• Computer and Internet Fraud – Using the internet to perpetrate fraud practices by hacking or illegally intercepting electronic transmissions.

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• Credit Card Fraud – Theft involving a credit or debit card with the purpose being to obtain goods without paying for them or obtain unauthorized funds from an account.

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• Phone and Telemarketing Fraud – A scheme in which a criminal communicates via telephone to obtain credit card or identity information, lure victims into advanced fee scams, ask victims to pay money in a pyramid scheme, pose as a charity receiving “donations” or other similar activities.

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• Bankruptcy Fraud – This may involve concealing assets, intentionally filing false or incomplete forms, or submitting multiple forms with false or real information in multiple states.

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• Medicare/Medicaid Fraud – Filing dishonest health or medical claims in order to make a profit. This can include illegal billing practices, altering medical forms or records, waiving co-pays, intentionally reporting incorrect diagnoses or procedures for profit, accepting or giving kickbacks for member referrals and prescribing additional or unnecessary treatments.

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• Violations of Environmental Law – Refusing to comply with environmental regulations and attempting to hide noncompliance. Violations include littering, improper waste disposal, illegal use of pesticides in agriculture, burning garbage, smuggling illegal chemicals into the country, destruction of wetlands, oil spills, and releasing certain particulates in amounts surpassing the regulatory caps.

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• Insurance Fraud – Common types include premium diversion, fee churning, asset diversion, workers’ compensation fraud, and filing false insurance claims.

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• Mail Fraud – Using mail and wire communication to fraudulently obtain funds from victims for fictitious or fraudulent services or goods. This includes employment fraud, financial fraud,  fraud against older Americans, sweepstakes and lottery fraud, telemarketing fraud, etc.

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• Government Fraud – Intentionally swindling the government by way of bribery, collusion, false or double billing, false certification of the quality of parts or test results, etc.

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• Tax Evasion – Illegally and intentionally avoiding paying taxes to the government. Either by falsifying or hiding income, profits and gains, deductions, etc.

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• Financial Fraud – Intentionally falsifying information during financial transactions. This includes predatory lending, Ponzi schemes, scamming the elderly, and securities fraud.

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• Securities Fraud – Also known as stock fraud, this practice misleads investors to make bad purchases or sales decisions based on false information.

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• Insider Trading – When individuals with access to non-public, company stock information, take advantage of their post and reveal, or trade stock information.

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• Bribery – Intentionally offering goods, services, or other forms of compensation to encourage the recipient of such bribes to benefit the interests of the giver in a way that would not happen otherwise.

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• Kickbacks – A form of bribery in which the bribe taker is “paid” a commission for his services, or as a quid pro quo.

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• Counterfeiting – Manufacturing inferior goods, and representing and selling them under a branded name.

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• Public Corruption – Taking advantage of the trust of the public, or abusing power by those in a federal, state, or local government role.

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• Embezzlement – Taking advantage of one’s trusted position in the company to manage the funds to misappropriate funds for the purpose of theft.

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• Economic Espionage and Trade Secret Theft – An international form of espionage, or spying, in which governments gain information about organizations in an unethical manner, such as using bribes, trade secrets, blackmail, and surveillance.