Areas of Practice

Fraud Cases

When a person knowingly carries out or attempts to carry out a scheme or deception to obtain someone else’s money or property, he or she has committed fraud. Fraud can be committed in an infinite variety of ways, although there are several common categories. Some of the categories include:

Bank Fraud is fraud which is committed against a federally insured financial institution through many various means, such as providing false information on a loan application, or forging checks or related financial papers, or manipulating one’s bank accounts so as to give the false impression that one is more financially solvent than he or she truly is.

Mail and wire fraud is committed when a person uses the mails, or the phone, or the internet to commit one of many types of crime cognizable under the laws of the United States.

Tax fraud is committed when one acts illegally with the intent to evade paying taxes otherwise legally due. Examples include underreporting of income, creating of false deductions, tax shelter schemes, and altering or destroying records.

Healthcare fraud is that area of fraud where a person misrepresents or deceives for profit, or in order to receive some medical benefit for one’s self of another. Targets of law enforcement often include medical professionals, doctors, nurses, office managers, billing specialists, pharmacists, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as organized crime groups. Examples include billing for medical supplies or services not provided, or over-billing, or upcoding, or providing unnecessary medical procedures.

In these cases, law enforcement is frequently assisted by insurance companies, and government program auditors and inspectors.

Insurance fraud is most often committed through a claimant misrepresenting the nature or value of an insured loss.

Consumer fraud is that area of fraud involving deception or misrepresentation in the advertising, marketing, sales or provision of goods or services to consumers.

Securities Fraud generally involves some time of investment scheme, whether a Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme or endless chains.