We're just going to go ahead and tick off an affirmative answer to the above-posed headline query, given our view that so-called cyber crime stories are dominating the media with more force and urgency than ever before.Just consider: Eric Snowden seems a more...
If you're an ardent proponent of legalized pot in Florida, don't hold your breath.And while you're refraining from doing so, go ahead and reaffirm your understanding that there is huge difference in meaning between the terms "introduction" and "implementation."State...
Years down the road, the words "subprime mortgage crisis" might immediately evoke the first decade of this century for many Americans.It was just a handful-plus of years that the bottom seemed to be falling out on home mortgages and values across the country, with...
The point is often made that state and federal law enforcement actors -- especially federal agencies and officials -- bring overwhelming zeal and clout to their investigations of individuals targeted in white collar criminal probes.The bottom line in many white collar...
We visited the hot-button topic of health care fraud in our immediately preceding blog post, noting that it is indeed pervasive and of exceedingly wide scope. We also noted in that post (please see our entry dated February 12) that the bulk of fraudulent activity...
Federal regulators and enforcement agencies have targeted various types of fraud for major investigative probes in recent years, especially in the wake of the so-called Great Recession.Many of our readers in Florida and elsewhere will likely remember the seemingly...
Our immediately preceding blog post raised some initial issues concerning tax evasion (please see our February 5 entry), which we elaborate on a bit more in today's post.A fundamental point regarding the purposeful underpayment of taxes, as noted in a media primer on...
For our readers in Florida and elsewhere who love acronyms, here's one that's been a front-page media mainstay the past couple years: FATCA.Fleshed out, that stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. If you don't have any money invested in banks or other...
