Maybe you share your drugs with a friend who just had a back injury. Maybe you sold a few pills because you just needed to make the bills. Maybe you're just dealing enough to support your own habit. You're careful about who knows what you're doing, and you never...
Month: January 2020
What causes people to embezzle?
Embezzlement is a very specific type of crime. Unlike ordinary theft or burglary, embezzlement requires you to be part of an organization and in a relatively trusted role. That generally only happens when you've been in a position of authority inside a company for...
Federal judge rules police officer lied about traffic stop
Dashcam video from a Cincinnati, Ohio, police officer’s cruiser was used to exonerate a man who the officer accused of making an illegal lane change, which eventually led to drug charges against the motorist. Timothy Britton was pulled over on a Cincinnati street in...
Is the government tapping your phones?
Being subjected to a federal investigation is enough to make anybody a little bit paranoid -- and rightly so. You may wonder if your office is about to be raided any minute now, or whether you'll get home from work to find federal agents picking apart your personal...
Doctor’s assets targeted in civil forfeiture over opioids
The federal government has moved to seize $1.6 million in assets from a doctor accused of operating a pill mill that operated in Tennessee and Kentucky. The curious thing about this is that the doctor has yet to be formally charged. The move was likely not a surprise...
Why the IRS starts looking for fraud
It's January, which means that it won't be long before the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) starts its annual parade of tax notifications and warnings, all designed to remind people -- especially business owners and professionals -- of their legal obligations. In other...
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