On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Feb 5, 2020 | White Collar Crimes
Anyone in Oklahoma could be a victim of identity theft despite their best efforts to protect their information. For instance, if a bank or major website experiences a data breach, an individual’s credit card or checking account number could be accessible to...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Jan 31, 2020 | White Collar Crimes
Oklahomans who are facing bribery charges should take them seriously. A bribery conviction can result in serious penalties, including substantial fines and sentences to incarceration. It is important for people to understand bribery charges and to get help if they...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Nov 22, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
Oklahoma residents may have been surprised when federal prosecutors announced that a University of Miami professor had been charged with laundering money. The case is unusual because the professor wrote a book about organized crime and corruption in South America and...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Oct 10, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
Oklahoma residents who have been following the recent college admissions scandal are likely aware that sentences have been handed down to some of the parents involved. On Oct. 4, a judge in California sent a 53-year-old man to prison for five months and fined him...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Sep 25, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
Several people who are well known throughout Oklahoma, including actress Felicity Huffman, have been charged in the highly-publicized college cheating scandal. Huffman received her sentence after entering a guilty plea in May to federal charges of mail fraud and...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Sep 11, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
If a person sells a counterfeit good or obtains property or money under false pretenses, those acts are referred to as fraud. If a person uses the mail system to commit those acts, he or she will likely be charged with mail fraud. It doesn’t matter whether a...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Aug 29, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
An Oklahoma pharmacist faces up to 20 years in a federal prison and a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty to two counts of felony health care fraud. The 37-year-old man was indicted by a federal grand jury in March for filing false Medicare and Medicaid claims, and...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | May 23, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
A recently released 19-page federal indictment has detailed accusations against a 44-year-old woman from Burnsville. She worked for a Native American tribe as the controller and eventually chief financial officer for some of the tribe’s business entities that...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Apr 11, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
Oklahoma residents have probably heard about the college admissions scandal involving affluent families and might want to know more details. Several families have been charged in relation to allegations that they used practices like bribery and fraud to get their...
On behalf of J. Patrick Quillian, P.C. | Mar 27, 2019 | White Collar Crimes
Some people in Oklahoma may have heard about the attorney for Stormy Daniels, Michael Avenatti, being taken into custody on federal charges in two different cases. One deals with embezzlement and the other with extortion. In the latter case, Avenatti is accused of...
