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  • Different Types of Money Laundering Schemes

    Money laundering refers to the process undertaken to “clean” dirty money (i.e. money obtained via criminal activity). Many money laundering schemes are connected with drug offenses, embezzlement (and other white-collar crimes), and terrorist-related offenses. Common Money Laundering Schemes Money laundering is a white-collar crime that is charged as a federal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a), ...
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  • Types of Mail Fraud

    What Is Mail Fraud? Mail fraud , as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 1341, occurs when a person schemes to or participates in a scheme to knowingly defraud or obtain money, goods, services, property, or anything of value under false or misleading pretenses using mail services. Mail services include U.S. Postal Services, commercial interstate mail carriers, and private mail services. Defendants can face up ...
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  • What Is Mortgage Fraud?

    Mortgage fraud is a federal offense that occurs when a homebuyer, seller, or lender lies about or omits important information in relation to a mortgage loan. Under federal law, a person who commits mortgage fraud can face up to 30 years of imprisonment, and perpetrators may face civil litigation if another party incurs significant damages. There are two categories that mortgage fraud falls into: ...
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  • Romance Scammers on Online Dating Apps

    Are You a Romance Scammer? Online dating apps are increasingly common in this day and age. Single people use online dating apps to meet and mingle, hoping to find a casual hookup or committed love. In fact, a Pew Research Center study reveals that 48% of 18-to-29-year-olds report using a dating site or app, while roughly 57% of online daters report having an overall positive experience with these ...
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  • Florida Judge Rules Bitcoin Isn't Money in Landmark Case

    If you’ve been paying any attention to the news for the last several months, you’ve probably heard quite a bit of noise about this thing called “bitcoin.” Bitcoin is one of thousands of different types of cryptocurrency, a type of money that has no physical form and is used expressly in electronic financial transactions. It’s easy to see the appeal of bitcoin: it’s not connected to any single ...
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  • Four Common Internet Crimes & Their Penalties

    When it comes to influential technology over the last couple of decades, you’d be hard-pressed to argue that the internet isn’t on the top of the list. While the worldwide web has enabled us to stay connected to each other easier and put a wealth of information right at our fingertips like never before, it’s also led to a whole new variety of crimes. While some of these offenses would never have ...
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  • Have I Committed Tax Evasion?

    Filing your tax return every year is a mandatory responsibility for American citizens, and most people know just how important it is for them to be neat, accurate, and honest when filling out the necessary paperwork—nobody wants to face the dreaded tax audit or worse, be accused of tax evasion. The crime of tax evasion is willfully and knowingly misrepresenting or lying on your tax return forms to ...
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  • A Brief Primer on New Jersey's Bribery Laws

    Bribery is a powerful tool in circles of power, and that means it’s a fairly common type of white collar crime. According to New Jersey law, bribery includes soliciting, accepting, or agreeing to accept any sort of personal benefit in exchange for violating or agreeing to violate any duty of fidelity you might have. As we’ll see on this blog, that can be pretty widely-inclusive. Here is a brief ...
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  • Fraud charges can affect others in an organization

    Individuals involved in running a business or organization with other people run the risk of being accused of wrongdoing when one of the owners or organizers is charged with fraud and other crimes. New Jersey charity organizers can learn a lesson from a recent case in which commission of a federal crime by one of two charity organizers could have had dire consequences for the other one. A ...
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  • New Jersey man facing fraud and money laundering charges

    A 67-year-old New Jersey man was taken into custody on March 16 on charges that he funneled more than $5 million from his payroll company in order to finance his lavish lifestyle. Prosecutors say that the man used the money to make investments, place a deposit on a Florida house worth $1.8 million and pay for cars, boats and aircraft. The man's attorney said in a statement that her client accepted ...
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  • Trump University accused of defrauding over 5,000 people

    Headlines in New Jersey newspapers might be full of campaign promises from presidential candidate Donald Trump, but former students of Trump University have accused him and his now-closed institution of fraud. The New York State attorney general plans to continue prosecuting the state's civil fraud case against Trump University now that it has survived a review by an appeals court. Although no ...
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  • Man gets prison sentence for stealing from company

    A New Jersey Superior Court judge sentenced a Berkeley Heights man to six years in prison on Feb. 26 after he was suspected of stealing more than $4 million from the three trucking companies where he was employed for eight years. The 54-year-old man was working from one of the company offices in Elizabeth. The three trucking companies the man was employed with were New England Motor Freight, ...
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  • Fundamentalist church sect leaders accused of food stamp fraud

    In New Jersey, many families depend on food assistance to get by. The system, however, can be vulnerable to fraud, and federal investigators have arrested 11 members of one branch of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on charges of food stamp fraud and money laundering. The church leaders allegedly created an elaborate scheme to funnel food assistance funds from two of ...
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  • New Jersey doctor charged with fraud

    On Feb. 10, a New Jersey doctor was charged for billing Medicare and Medicaid for tests that were not actually performed. According to the complaint, the gynecologist allegedly billed both agencies for rectal tests between 2006 and 2011, none of which were conducted. The complaint also stated the doctor billed more than the next top 10 billers in the state. The prosecutors in the case interviewed ...
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  • CEO scorned for raising drug price charged with securities fraud

    New Jersey residents might find it interesting that Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who sparked national outrage when he dramatically hiked the price of an infection-fighting drug, has been arrested for securities fraud. The 32-year-old was taken into custody at his swank Manhattan apartment on Dec. 17. The charges against Shkreli stem from his activities as CEO of the ...
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  • First market spoofing conviction

    New Jersey residents who invest in the commodities market may be interested in learning that on Nov. 3, a man was convicted of spoofing, a form of commodities fraud. This was the first instance of this illegal practice to be prosecuted. "Spoofing" is a term that describes manipulating the stock market to fool other traders into thinking there is a high demand for the commodity. The convicted man ...
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  • New Jersey woman and parents found guilty of fraud

    On Oct. 31, it was reported that a New Jersey woman and her parents were convicted for being involved in a mortgage fraud scheme. The 37-year-old Cherry Hill woman and her parents were accused of defrauding vulnerable individuals who were trying to save their homes from foreclosure. The woman owned a financial service business and worked as a mortgage broker for a mortgage company while her father ...
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  • Federal prosecutors say BP oil spill claims were fraudulent

    New Jersey residents most likely remember the BP oil spill that occurred on April 20, 2010. The environmental disaster began when millions of barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico after a rig blast. Now, seven individuals have been indicted by the Department of Justice for allegedly conspiring to submit false claims on behalf of people who were physically injured or suffered economic ...
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  • New Jersey used car dealer sent to prison for tax fraud

    According to Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman, a Toms River man was sentenced to three years in prison on Oct. 16 for sales tax fraud after failing to remit more than $156,000 in sales tax to the state. The man reportedly pleaded guilty to second-degree failure to turn over New Jersey sales tax on July 14. The 58-year-old man was indicted in 2013 following an investigation by the Division ...
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  • The definition of extortion

    New Jersey resdidents may wonder what actions fall under the label of extortion. The crime of extortion occurs when a person compels another person to give them their property or money by threatening them. The person committing extortion may physically threaten the individual or others in the individual's life, or the threat may be one of exposure of information. A threat to harm an individual's ...
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  • Questions arise about new federal approach to white-collar crime

    New Jersey residents might not know that the Justice Department is making changes in an approach to crack down on white-collar criminal activity by corporations, but some believe the new DOJ policies are long overdue and are not enough to hold the responsible companies accountable. The problem with many alleged crimes committed by corporations is that individuals may be turned over for wrongdoing ...
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  • New Jersey doctor accused of tax fraud scheme

    On Aug. 25, a New Jersey doctor was taken into police custody after he was accused of fabricating a payroll in order to avoid paying taxes. He was essentially accused of falsely adding 28 people to a payroll in order to appear as if he was paying these employees. According to investigators, an accountant allegedly gave the doctor names, social security numbers and other pertinent information in ...
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  • New Jersey brothers plead guilty to insurance fraud

    Two New Jersey brothers pleaded guilty to an insurance fraud scheme on July 7. The brothers reportedly paid recruiters to bring in crash victims to chiropractic facilities that they owned. Additionally, the two brothers, ages 52 and 53, were accused of receiving kickbacks from a number of attorneys and certain medical providers after referring patients to those businesses. The April 2014 ...
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  • Woman sentenced to prison for bribing VA employee

    On July 13, a New Jersey woman was sentenced to spend 37 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to fraud charges in June. The woman was convicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States, bribing a public official and subscribing to false federal tax returns. According to prosecutors, the accused woman gave several bribes to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs employee in exchange for VA ...
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  • The "pump and dump" investment scam

    White collar crimes can take many different forms. New Jersey residents who are wondering whether an activity falls into this category need to understand how it is defined. One investment scam that frequently arises is referred to as a "pump and dump". This occurs when a person or group of people who are investing in a particular stock promote it enthusiastically. They then sell it when the price ...
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