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If you’re going to hide money from the IRS, expect to pay the consequences if you are caught, explained a New York Criminal Lawyer. While there may be mitigating circumstances and an attorney can get the charges or jail time reduced or commuted to community service time, there will generally be a price to pay for flaunting the law.

The particular former athlete will be spending a year at home under house arrest for hiding $2.6 million in a Swiss bank account. He wanted to save $60,000 in taxes. What he got instead was a whole pile of trouble with the law for criminal tax evasion. Instead of saving $60,000, he was fined $1.3 million for not legally reporting the funds on his tax return said the New York Criminal Lawyer.

At trial the judge took aim at the athlete and said that his new country of residence had treated him well, but in return, he had chosen to deliberately flaunt the law and hide money from the same government that had accepted him as a US citizen reported the New York Criminal Lawyer.

A 43-year old mother of an alleged 14-year-old assassin for a Mexican drug cartel was recently charged with entering the United States illegally, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

The suspect and her husband were arrested and taken from their apartment of eight years to be federally charged with illegal re-entry after previous deportation according to local police reports.

The mother was originally deported back in 1997 for possession of rock cocaine according to police reports. There is no record of her applying for permission back into the States, New York Criminal Lawyers affirmed. Her husband was also previously deported in May of 2002.

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Just when you thought you had heard it all, along comes a case with an unusual twist recounted a New York Criminal Lawyer. In this case, a man was found drunk and in the driver’s seat, but, had not been driving.

The man, who had been arrested, had always stuck to his story that he was not drinking and driving and in fact, when he slid off an icy road on the way home, he was stone cold sober. He texted his girlfriend and told her he had crashed, grabbed a bottle of brandy he along with him in the car and drank it to stay warm. He figured it would be a good thing to do while he was waiting for help to get out of his predicament.

Two hours after he had crashed, rescue crews arrived and found him unresponsive. When they tested his blood alcohol content, it was 0.148. He was arrested and charged with DUI explained the New York Criminal Lawyer. During his trial the whole story was retold and when the jury retired to deliberate, they found for driver. Good thing too, otherwise he would have spent a year in the clink and been hit with a fine of $1,000.

After a clemency process aimed at assisting green card holders at risk of deportation because of past criminal convictions, and a meeting with his pardon panel, Governor David A. Paterson pardoned six out of 1,100 immigrants Monday including a financial administrator from the City University of New York, a New York Criminal Lawyer related.

“Federal immigration laws,” Paterson said, “are often inflexible, arbitrarily applied and excessively harsh, resulting in the deportation of individuals who have paid the price for their crimes and are now making positive contributions to our society. These pardons represent an attempt to achieve fairness and justice.”

New York Criminal Lawyers predict the governor will issue another batch of pardons before his term ends this month.

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The stress of his son’s death may have caused a grieving father to go too far in a recent traffic incident, established New York Criminal Lawyers.

The distressed father, whose son was killed on his motorcycle last spring by a driver accused of running a red light, has temporarily lost his license after being charged with driving drunk, New York Criminal Lawyers explained.

After a field sobriety test and finally a blood test, the man’s blood alcohol level tested well beyond the legal limit, according to police reports.

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Felipe Hueso, San Diego City Council candidate spent the night in jail for allegedly driving drunk Monday night. Tests confirmed Hueso had a blood-alcohol level of .15, which is nearly double the legal limit of .08, New York Criminal Atorneys reported.

Before Hueso was pulled over, the arresting officer noticed he was driving his Jeep Wrangler with the outside off-road spotlights on. Legally the off-road lamps should be turned off when a vehicle drives down public and residential streets, according to New York Criminal Lawyers.

Minutes later the officer stopped the Wrangler and identified the driver as Felipe Hueso. Upon further investigation the officer suspected Hueso had been drinking and conducted a field sobriety test and followed it up downtown at the police headquarters with a Breathalyzer. The final test revealed the .15 percent blood-alcohol level, said New York Criminal Lawyers.

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A 32-year-old man was arrested this weekend for committing nearly the same crime in 1999 that left him imprisoned and without a driver’s license for several years. The suspect killed a 10-year-old girl in a crash more than a decade ago after driving drunk and was arrested this past weekend for driving while intoxicated again, New York Criminal Lawyers report.

“He hasn’t learned anything in all these years,” said a grieving 49-year old man, whose daughter was killed in the 1999 accident. According to police reports the man crashed into the family’s car in 1999 and only the 10-year-old girl was killed.

The suspect allegedly crashed onto the lawn of a local resident this past weekend and was found slumped over the steering wheel with the car still running and a half of a bottle of vodka sitting near him. He sustained only minor injuries at the scene according to police and required no hospitalization.

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Jim Leyritz still blames his victim for his own drinking and driving incident and hasn’t learned a thing, said New York Criminal Lawyers.

“My life was dragged though the mud because I was a Yankee. I got tried because I’m an athlete! There was a good chance I was innocent!” Said ex-New York Yankee Jim Leyritz, 46, who drove drunk, killed a woman and never went to jail.

Leyritz, who was extremely angry at the police who arrested him threatened, “I’m gonna make them lose their jobs.” He went on to slander his victim — a waitress and mother who was killed on her way home in Florida at 3 a.m.

He was the former head of the Grand Old Party, the GOP, the Republicans of the great state of Indiana, says a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer. Nothing happened in the state that he didn’t know about, at least not politically, and for nearly four years, between 2002 and 2006 he was the King Maker in the state of Indiana. Noted a NY Criminal Lawyer, who asked not to be named, “when he wasn’t pulling the strings of the political machine, he ran the family business.” But, not just any family business, but a family business of retail furniture stores. Twelve retail furniture stores in all, located all over Indiana and Indiana’s next door neighbor, Ohio, reports a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer

And now all of that is nothing more than a backstory as he has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. It was nearly eleven o clock in at night when he was pulled over, notes a New York Criminal Defense Lawyer, and the police followed standard protocol: they gave him the breathalyzer and told him to take the field sobriety test. He failed both. He was arrested for DWI and will stand before a judge soon to answer for his alleged crime against the people of Indiana, says a NYC Criminal Lawyer. Jail time is a possibility.

Earlier this month, the man had stepped down from his post as head of the regional furniture giant. Perhaps he spent the rest of the month drinking.

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A 51-year old man, who was a crash scene photographer, was charged with a DUI this week, after he was seen driving right past the scene of a fatal crash by local police, New York Criminal Lawyers reported.

The suspect has been convicted three times in the past fifteen years for driving while intoxicated according to court documents.

Police suspected the photographer was drunk when he drove past the crash scene, went down the street, then returned and parked half on the street and half on the curb.