Racketeering is when a crime is committed or attempted to be committed in an organized way. This might bring to mind the Godfather movies which involved the mob or the mafia, but it can involve any structured criminal organization that conducts illegal activities.
This year, 14 employees of the Detroit Public School system have been implicated in allegations of bribery. After an audit from 2014 raised some red flags about former principal Kenyetta Wilbourn Snapp she was indicted and plead guilty to bribery, agreeing to cooperate with the government in its prosecution against the others.
Embezzlement in most states is defined as theft of assets – money or property – by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. It can occur in employment and corporate settings, bank settings, family settings and more.
When most of us think of counterfeiting, we think of something like the story from 2009 where someone made change with fake bills in several stores in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We picture rows of wet, newly minted fake bills drying on clotheslines in someone’s basement.
Melissa Stamp, of Stamp Farms, Decatur MI, had been Miss Southwest Michigan and Michigan Apple Queen before she was convicted of bankruptcy fraud and sentenced to 20 months in a federal penitentiary last year. She and her husband, Michael Stamp, owned two businesses, Stamp Farms and Northstar Grain, LLC. Both businesses filed for bankruptcy in…
This past June, the Michigan Supreme Court decided that three police officers, who assaulted a motorist in 2009 and then lied about it, cannot be charged with Obstruction of Justice. The motorist accused Officer Nevin Hughes of the Detroit Police Gang Squad of choking him outside a gas station in Detroit, while the other two…
What are mail fraud scams? In this day of electronic communication you may think mail fraud is a thing of the past. Even though mail fraud has been a federal offense since 1872, our mail system is still being used to defraud people of money in many of the same ways as wire fraud.
Have you or has anyone you know been charged with wire fraud? Wire Fraud is a crime involving interstate communications devices – such as mail, telephone, fax, email, etc. – used to defraud or try to defraud someone of money, property or anything else of value.
Many may remember when Martha Stewart – the creator of the Martha Stewart Living magazine and television show – went to prison. What you may not know is that she wasn’t just charged with insider trading, but with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and securities fraud linked to a trade she made in 2001.
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