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…
False allegations of sex crimes are a nightmare for anyone; they are among the worst kinds of character assassination. The situation becomes worse, however, if any of the parties involved are especially young. Punishments for sex crimes are more severe when the defendants are adults and the victims are below the age of consent, and…
Unless you have been a defendant in a criminal case, you have probably never thought much about what it means to have a criminal record. It means that if you have ever been arrested, even if you were found not guilty, the record of the arrest shows up on criminal background checks, where it can…
In Texas, sexual relationships between an adult and a teenager are illegal; the only exceptions are “Romeo and Juliet” relationships, where the older partner is a very young adult and the younger partner is nearing the age of majority, such as a relationship between an 18-year-old college freshman and an 16-year-old college junior. The idea…
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…
The difference between simple sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault is that the latter causes serious bodily injury to the victim. The 2013 attack for which Pfc. Levi Austin Goss is accused is one of the more horrific sexual assaults to make headlines in recent memory. Goss is currently awaiting extradition to Texas from North…
Although 31 states currently allow capital punishment for the most serious crimes, only about a fifth of people sentenced to death since Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 Supreme Court decision that reinstated the death penalty, have actually been executed. Many death row inmates have died of natural causes, effectively serving a life sentence after being…
Embezzlement is a type of fraud in which a person uses his or her position of employment to divert funds to himself or herself, through deception, from clients or from the company where he or she is employed. It is not simply a matter of stealing from one’s employer; the employee of a bulk candy…
Lawyers who work with sexual assault cases know that there is a lot more variation in sexual assault cases than just the stereotypical view that you often see on TV. Thanks to awareness campaigns, most people now know that not all sexual assaults take place when a woman is walking outside alone at night and…
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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