Legal Articles

Money laundering is both a federal as well as a Florida state crime that prohibits “cleaning” illegal money by depositing it into legitimate financial institutions, charities, or businesses. The laundering occurs in three steps that include: Placement is when the dirty money is introduced into the legitimate market. Layering is[...]

When it comes to battling drug use, trafficking, distribution and manufacture, the government means business. That is why $47 billion is spent annually in the U.S. on the war on drugs. Many drug arrests are prosecuted as state crimes. Federal drug charges are more serious and often result in massive[...]

If you get a knock on the door in the middle of the night, if agents appear at your workplace, if for any reason you feel you are under investigation by a federal investigative agency, you are probably right. There are actually a number of federal law enforcement groups that[...]

South Florida is ripe territory for real estate fraud. In fact, it’s been at or near the top of the list when it comes to these types of crimes for a decade or more. Just how seriously does the government take real estate fraud? In September 2019, a family of[...]

Florida has long held the unflattering position of having among the highest number of white-collar crimes. While prosecutions nation-wide have dropped to their lowest numbers in more than 20 years (as of April 2018), the Southern District of Florida ranked only behind Manhattan in white collar crime prosecutions per capita,[...]

Identity theft and “new account” fraud, including mortgage, student loan and credit cards, accounted for $3.4 billion in losses in 2018. In that same year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alone processed 1.4 million reports of fraud. And while those numbers are staggering, they are on the increase. Prior to[...]