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5 Mistakes to Avoid When You’re Under Investigation
The five critical mistakes to avoid when under federal investigation are: failing to retain a private lawyer with federal experience, talking to coworkers, friends, or family members about the case, destroying evidence, lying to investigators, and speaking to investigators without your lawyer present. Each of…
What Are the Conditions of Making Bail in NY?
If you are arrested and charged with a crime in NY, you don’t immediately have a criminal trial. There are several, very important, steps that happen in between. First, you have an initial hearing, which can be coupled with arraignment in federal or state court.…
Defending Immigration Fraud Charges in NYC
Every week, we see new news stories about immigration fraud. Often, the fraudsters aren’t the immigrants themselves but crime rings who take advantage of them. Nevertheless, it’s too easy for an immigrant to find themselves up on charges. USCIS is highly suspicious and actively looks…
What is Money Laundering?
The crime of money laundering consists of taking money from drugs, theft, or other criminal activity and “transforming it” into legitimate money by running it through a front business of some kind. Often this will require some sort of cash business and some accounting fraud.…
Cryptocurrency and Wire Fraud: What You Need to Know
Cryptocurrency fraud is on the rise, and the Department of Justice is devoting a lot of resources to stopping it. While some argue over how cryptocurrency should be classified, the DOJ isn’t waiting. As reported in Reuters , they’re using the federal wire fraud statute…
What is a Target Letter?
Federal Law Enforcement officers send target letters to inform people that they are the subject of a federal investigation. It is often supplied to witnesses who have been subpoenaed before a Grand Jury. People receiving target letters need immediate help, as these notices often mean…
What is a Kickback and Why is it Illegal?
This week the owner of a telemedicine company pled guilty to a conspiracy to both pay and receive health care kickbacks. A former Netflix executive was sentenced to 30 months in prison this week for receiving bribes and kickbacks from tech companies who wanted lucrative…
What is a Character Reference Letter in a Federal Criminal Defense Case?
If you take your federal criminal case all the way to trial and lose, then eventually you will be facing a sentencing hearing. At that point, your energy, and your lawyer’s energy, will turn primarily to sentence mitigation. One of the tools that you can…
Types of Immunity in a Federal Criminal Case
If you watch a lot of crime television you’ve probably heard more than one fictional arrestee say, “I want immunity” to investigators. When they do, the audience understands he’s not going to be prosecuted, and that he’ll probably enter the witness protection program. But there…
Should You Go To Trial for Federal Criminal Charges?
Early in your federal criminal case, you have a major decision to make: do you want to accept a plea bargain from the federal prosecutor or go to trial? In the United States, upwards of 90% of federal criminal charges are settled before trial, and…
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