If you've been online lately, you've probably heard the buzz surrounding the Fyre Festival -- the famous concert "experience" for wealthy, influential Millennials that wasn't. Two documentaries about what happened there have recently landed on Netflix and Hulu.The...
Is facial recognition technology the new version of the fingerprint in future criminal cases?There was a time when fingerprint analysis wasn't accepted in court -- and now its reliability is once again under fire from many credible sources that say it isn't as...
Insurance giant State Farm recently settled an $8 billion civil racketeering lawsuit before it got to court.The suit alleged a conspiracy by the insurance agency to put a judge on the Illinois Supreme Court to gain a favorable ruling in a case 20 years...
There's been a lot of media attention on the high-profile arrests of executives for a variety of white collar crimes, including securities violations, tax evasion and violating laws regarding United States sanctions. What's happening? Has the executive class of some...
Drug diversion programs work.Putting a defendant in jail for a lengthy sentence over a drug crime is ultimately more expensive and less productive than diversion programs. In fact, if just one out every 10 defendants eligible for diversion programs were put into one...
The instant the old year draws to a close and the new year begins, a lot of people start thinking about their tax returns. It's only natural. For many people, their anticipated tax refund represents a chance to get caught up on bills and maybe afford a few...
