Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is four years into serving a 30-year minimum prison sentence for sexually assaulting 10 minors over a 14-year period. He appealed his 2012 guilty verdict once already, and now he is appealing his conviction for...
It's a well-known fact that, under federal law, people convicted of a felony are prohibited from possessing a firearm, and if felons found possessing firearms can be sentenced to up to ten years in prison. Lesser known are the much more strict - and now partially...
Accounting fraud has been around as long as there has been accounting, but it's not always clear to the laymen what the distinction is between "creative accounting" and a criminal act. "Accounting fraud" is not necessarily in and of itself a specific crime, but refers...
Sex crimes are primarily policed by state law, but federal statutes legislate in the area of sex crimes as well, especially where interstate commerce or travel is involved. Many federal statutes include mandatory minimum sentences for sex crimes. In addition, federal...
Sex crimes are generally governed by state law, but there are numerous federal laws providing the federal government with jurisdiction over a number of sex crimes. These federal sex crimes often involve interstate traffic and thus examples include possessing or...
We hear the word "conspiracy" thrown around in everyday conversation to apply to all sorts of things, and it's generally used to refer to any type of secret agreement among parties to act in concert towards a common goal. But in the context of criminal law,...
Federal sex crimes are serious charges that can lead to extreme consequences, such as jail time, the destruction of your personal relationships, and forced listing in sex crimes registries. These criminal allegations also elicit very emotional reactions from people,...
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a federal agency whose mission is to combat drug use and smuggling in the United States. Although action movies depict DEA agents as stoic heroes who save the day, the reality regarding what the agency does and how it works...
There are reasons that films like Wall Street and Risky Business came out in the market heyday of the 1980s: it was a decade built on shaky finances and high risk ventures. Coupled with the glamour of upper class lifestyles, these characteristics defined the Baby...
When we think of fraud, we often think of the big accounting scandals that plague the modern era: Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Lehmen Brother's "too big to fail" lies, and Enron's shady bankruptcy. Mortgage fraud is a growing problem that costs taxpayers money and...
