A Defendant vs. the Prosecution…and the System
Leland Wong, once known as a power broker in City Hall, is under investigation for bribery and his defense attorney is claiming that there is a steamroller of an investigation pitted against him.
Prosecutors are alleging that Wong accepted bribes of up to $100,000 by a Taiwanese company looking to make some headway in a lease […]
Embezzlement: Destroying Corporations, Individuals, Governments and Churches
Embezzlement is defined as “the fraudulent conversion of property of another by a person in lawful possession of that property”. America has had its share of famous embezzlers, including Robert Vesco, who in the 1970’s stole tens of millions after he took over Investors Overseas Services, a struggling mutual fund company. This past September […]
Fraud, A Blemmish on the White Collar of America
Edwin H. Sutherland, who is one of the most influential criminologists of the first half of the twentieth century defined white collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.”
According to the IRS website, fraud on the corporate level, encompasses violations of the […]