Brooklyn DA Busts 32 Alleged Welfare Fraud Cheats: Nearly $1 Million in Fraud Alleged Fraud is a broad term that refers to a variety of offenses involving dishonesty or “fraudulent acts”. In essence, fraud is the intentional deception of a person or entity by another made for monetary or personal…
The pervasiveness of insurance fraud drives up costs for all consumers and costs the insurance industry billions of dollars each year. One authority estimates that the annual value of insurance fraud approaches $80 billion. Detecting insurance fraud is difficult because of the surreptitious nature by which the criminal perpetrates…
Bank of New York Melon Computer Tech Indicted for Identity Theft of 150 Employees and $1 Million Fraud Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud…
Bagel Man Hides the Dough: H and H Bagels Owner Arrested for General Tax and Unemployment Insurance Tax Fraud Insurance fraud occurs most often when an insured individual or entity makes a false or exaggerated insurance claim, seeking compensation for injuries or losses that were not actually suffered. Insurance fraud…
Under the law, white collar crime can describe a wide variety of crimes, but they all typically involve crime committed through deceit and motivated by financial gain. The most common white collar crimes are various types of fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering. Many types of scams and frauds…
New York Insurance Fraud, Grand Larceny and Your Criminal Defense: Does the Acquittal of One Charge Require the Acquittal of the Other? “White-collar crime” is an umbrella term used to define non-violent crimes that are financial in motivation. White-collar crimes tend to exist when people use deception or fraud to…
New York Penal Law 170.65: Forgery of a Vehicle Identification Number and Your Criminal Defense New York criminal law recognizes several degrees of the crime of forgery. A person is guilty of basic forgery, or forgery in the third degree, when he or she “falsely makes, completes or alters a…
Manhattan Medicaid & Welfare Fraud Ring Gets a Dose of Law Enforcement: “Operation Free Ride” Nets 19 Individuals for $350,000 Medicaid Theft Medical identity theft is defined as “the appropriation or misuse of a patient’s or provider’s unique medical identifying information to obtain or bill public or private payers for…
Have financial problems or hardships caused you to consider bankruptcy? Are harassing creditor calls, wage garnishments, frozen bank accounts, or the thought of losing your home weighing heavily on your mind? If you are reading this page, you have probably been struggling to find a way to reduce your debts,…
Under the New York Penal Law, a person is guilty of identity theft in the third degree when he or she knowingly and with intent to defraud assumes the identity of another person by presenting himself or herself as that other person, or by acting as that other person or…