White Collar Crime
Police Swamped With Unemployment Fraud Cases
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More than 350,000 people in Illinois alone have had their personal identities used for fraudulent unemployment claims amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
White Collar Crime
New Law Will Aid Money-Laundering Probes
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For the first time, shell companies must provide the names of their owners or face stiff penalties. The Corporate Transparency Act was tucked into a law just passed by Congress.
White Collar Crime
Boeing Paying $2.5 Billion to Settle Federal Fraud Case
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The aircraft maker resolved criminal charges of defrauding the Federal Aviation Administration during development of the company’s 737 MAX, the jet that killed hundreds of people in two overseas crashes.
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Wanted: A Corporate Crimebuster at DOJ
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The replacement for departing Attorney General William Barr should be aggressive in holding corporate bosses accountable for their misconduct, write two whistleblower lawyers. Their candidate: former deputy AG Sally Yates.
White Collar Crime
States Hit With More Fraudulent Unemployment Claims
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“The sheer generosity of the federal programs made them targets for criminal enterprises at a time that states lacked the resources, the computers,” said Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia.
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Cohen Seeks Home Confinement Release Via First Step
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Former Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen filed a new lawsuit claiming that he has earned early release from home confinement under the First Step Act.
White Collar Crime
Will Texas AG Paxton Face Federal or State Prosecution?
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Criminal allegations from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top deputies have set him up to square off against a formidable new opponent: A federal prosecutor with a team of FBI agents and a track record of getting corrupt public officials sent to prison.
White Collar Crime
Hunter Biden Investigation Goes Beyond Taxes
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In addition to a tax probe of the president-elect’s son in Delaware, the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York has scrutinized Hunter Biden’s finances. Investigators in Delaware and Washington, D.C., have probed potential money laundering.
White Collar Crime
Scammers Use Social Security Data In Frauds
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The Social Security Administration said it got 60,000 reports last year from people about scammers’ calls supposedly from the agency.
White Collar Crime
White House Clemency Probe Involved CA Tax Case
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The Justice Department investigated the roles of Elliott Broidy, a top fund-raiser for President Donald Trump, and a lawyer for his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a suspected scheme to offer a bribe in exchange for clemency for a tax crime convict who was sentenced to 30 months in prison.