White-Collar Crime Generally

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Privacy and other federal laws generally prohibit pretexting, (the use of false pretenses), when contacting a U.S. bank, phone company or government agency for confidential information.  One example of pretexting would be using a false identity while phoning a bank to elicit a bank customer’s personal account information.  If an information broker, private investigator,…

Mr. Reinaldo Cestero is a private investigator and a retired Chief Deputy United States Marshal, who works in Puerto Rico.  I asked Mr. Cestero about the superseding indictment filed in U.S.A. v. Acevedo-Vila, et. al., which charged Puerto Rico’s Governor Anibal Acevedo Vila, (and /or twelve co-defendants), with: conspiracy; false statements; wire fraud;…

As my post  “Divorce, Child Support & Reporting Tax Fraud” mentioned, divorcing spouses sometimes tip the IRS about a suspected tax fraud.  Mrs. Benjamin for example, tipped the IRS because she thought that her divorcing husband had underreported revenue from his commercial maintenance and landscaping business.  She specifically provided the IRS with the…

With more than 90 national chapters / chapters-in-formation since its founding in 1993, Transparency International is a lead group in the fight against the global white-collar crime of public corruption.  Transparency International publishes an annual "Corruption Perception Index" which ranks countries on a scale of "1" to "10" based on the perceptions of businessman and…

A former Criminal Intelligence Specialist at Scotland Yard confirmed that the divorcing husband was hiding millions from his wife by using bank accounts in Switzerland.  The husband’s true beneficial ownership of these funds had been concealed by a nominee (i.e. intermediary).  This nominee had opened the Swiss bank accounts in the names of shell corporations…

 
According to the Washington Post, U.S. Army Major John Cockerham, his sister, and wife were all recently arrested for hiding the proceeds of the largest bribery case in Iraq by money laundering.  As the Washington Post further mentioned, Major Cockerham allegedly received $9.6 million in bribe money, (and was awaiting another 5.4 million), for giving favorable contracts to military contractors.  The Washington Post also reported the

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