In 2012, Mexico agreed to extradite Sandra Avila Beltran to the United States. Law enforcement officials believed that she was heavily involved in the trade of drugs from Mexico to the United States. She recently pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking offense in a...
Month: April 2013
HEAT Task Force And Miami Health Care Fraud – Part Two
In 1995, there was no criminal law concerning Medicare fraud. The problem was either considered too minor to address or it had not occurred to legislators that such a thing could exist. It is difficult to explain how something could go from being of no concern to...
HEAT Task Force And Miami Health Care Fraud – Part One
In 2007, the government set up a law enforcement group known as the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team, shortened to HEAT. The group now has branch offices in nine cities, including Miami. Since its inception, HEAT Task Force agents have charged...
Confirmation Of Florida As Mortgage Fraud Leader
The Mortgage Fraud Index was released this week by the publication Mortgage Daily and it confirms what previous reports have shown. Despite a five-year low in legal actions for mortgage fraud nationwide, such actions actually rose in Florida in the last quarter of...
Goldman Sachs Group Trader Pleads Guilty To Fraud
A former trader at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. surrendered to Federal Bureau of Investigation authorities this week. The FBI wanted the man in connection with activities he undertook during his time as a trader late in 2007. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to a single...
Bail Hearing Set For Florida Man Accused Of Real Estate Fraud
After spending several days in a Florida correctional facility without bail, a man implicated in a mortgage scheme was granted a bail hearing in an Orlando courthouse today. The 47-year-old man was arrested on Friday after being the subject of a three-year Federal...
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