Texas has a reputation for being tough on crime. That reputation is well-deserved, and it is well-deserved whether you are talking about since-the-dawn-of-civilization crimes, such as homicide, theft, or all of the other thou-shalt-nots, or you are talking about more modern crimes not dreamed of by our ancestors, such as identity theft. Texas takes a…
Check forgery charges might not seem like a big deal, especially in comparison to a lot of charges you could face in Texas. Nobody got hurt, you are not looking at years upon years in prison – and certainly not a life sentence or the death penalty – and it hardly seems like its even…
Some cases of fraud would make great movies. For example, everyone who enjoyed watching Frank Abagnale, as portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, repeatedly faking it until he made it in Catch Me If You Can would happily watch a cinematic adaptation of the fraud perpetuated by Tobechi Onwuhara, who painstakingly searched for people’s personal details online…
A saying almost as old as the World Wide Web goes that you can pretend to be anyone online. An even older saying goes that, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. One would think that in this era, in which no sooner is anything posted online than someone calls B.S.…
The financial crime that seems to get all the press these days is identity theft, in which the perpetrator steals from the victim by impersonating him or her, but it is certainly not the only illegal way to misappropriate money. Embezzlement, in which a person who is given access to money in an official context…
Health care fraud is any act in which someone commits a deceptive act involving health care for his or her own financial gain. It most often involves doctors or patients providing false information to health insurance companies, but physicians accepting financial incentives from pharmaceutical companies in order to prescribe their drugs also counts as health…
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