White Collar Crimes

The fallout from the real estate crisis will continue for years to come. After all, the numbers are staggering. There have been about 5 million homes foreclosed upon in the last five years. Another 11 million homeowners are underwater are their mortgages. And in many...

On Thursday, a Baton Rouge grand jury issued an indictment against three individuals and a personal care company based in Baton Rouge of forgery charges. A 43-year-old Prairieville man and his company, Millennium Health Care Services LLC, have been charged with...

On Wednesday, five individuals pleaded guilty in connection with participation in health care fraud scheme run out of clinic in Jefferson Parish. The scheme apparently involved claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid. Health care fraud, as we have mentioned on this...

One of the categories of crime we write about on this blog is white collar crimes. These are offenses which, according to the website of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, involve lying, cheating and stealing. Fraud is the crime most often associated with this...

According to recent data released by the FBI, violent crimes have decreased in the first half of 2011 6.4 percent from the same time period last year. Property crimes have also apparently fallen, though only 3.7 percent, since last year. The decrease in crime is the...

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the number of fraudulent claims for federal income tax refunds has increase fourfold over the past two years. In response, the IRS is now introducing new efforts to fight against fraud, including new screening procedures...

In our previous post, we began speaking about the FBI's efforts to prosecute financial crimes in connection to the financial crisis. As we mentioned, federal officials have apparently found that pursuing firms and individual executives for criminal charges has been...

According to David Cardona, a former top U.S. official who was responsible for investigating the financial crisis, a three-year review of probes at large mortgage lenders and securities firms has caused federal officials to conclude that many financial crimes cannot...

In our previous post, we began looking at a recently report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general's office. The report, which was released Monday, revealed the difficulties federal officials face in monitoring the effectiveness of fraud...

According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general's report, which was released on Monday, federal officials are struggling to monitor the effectiveness of fraud detection programs aimed at preventing what amounts to roughly $60 billion per...