Criminal Law Excellence In Minnesota & Nationwide
If you are facing charges of white-collar crime, how you present yourself to the jury is very important. Keep in mind that juries are comprised of ordinary people. As such, they are prone to internal and subconscious biases that can be affected by many different...
Embezzlement is a crime, but it is also a blow to a company because the act involves diminishing its resources. When an employer discovers embezzlement, sometimes they try to work with the individual suspected of misappropriating company assets or resources. Other...
Cellphones give people around the world the chance to chat without worrying about others hearing what they are saying. Teenage boys can ring to ask a girl out without having to bypass her parents on a landline. Wannabe entrepreneurs can take a few minutes from their...
Federal lawmakers signed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) into law here in the United States in 1977. This legislation made it illegal for individuals to bribe foreign officials to obtain or retain their business, licenses, loans and other necessary...
Wherever money is concerned, it is very important to be accurate and honest when filling out paperwork, especially for the government. Falsifying the information on financial documents can lead to serious criminal charges. Keep in mind that there is an element of...
Most everyone has some idea of what “double jeopardy” is. Protection against double jeopardy is found in the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The specific clause states that “No person shall [...] be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of...
Money laundering, corporate fraud, embezzlement, insider trading and Ponzi schemes (among other things) all fall under the umbrella of “white collar” offenses. While every case is different, there are some specific avenues that tend to go into the defense when someone...
When a business starts struggling, both executives and employees might take extreme measures to keep it afloat. People don't want to lose their job or the business they've spent years running. If your company is going through a hard time, you may feel desperate to...
Any serious conviction, even those involving white-collar offenses, have some collateral consequences. These can sometimes have a bigger impact on the person than the court-imposed sentence. What are the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction? A collateral...
Perhaps you work as a real estate agent, and one of your oldest business contacts is a surveyor. They always give you an extra fifty bucks when you send the client their way. Maybe you work in the purchasing department of a company, and your contact at another...
