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Fraud
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Iowa Banking Law Blog
Don’t Let Hackers Make You Pay for the Same Thing Twice
By John Lande
This blog has covered numerous cases of hackers impersonating parties to commercial transactions, and rerouting funds meant to pay for equipment or services. Fraudsters have impersonated high-level executives to induce…
Iowa Commercial Litigation Blog
Don’t Let Hackers Make You Pay for the Same Thing Twice
By John Lande
This blog has covered numerous cases of hackers impersonating parties to commercial transactions, and rerouting funds meant to pay for equipment or services. Fraudsters have impersonated high-level executives to induce…
Franke Beckett Blog
Curbing the Spousal Election: A Look at Marriages Based on Fraud or Undue Influence
Elder financial abuse is rampant. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reports that $1.7 billion of suspicious financial activity involving seniors was flagged by U.S. financial institutions in 2017. This,…
Legal Profession Blog
Loan Modification Crimes Draw Disbarment
The California Supreme Court disbarred an attorney for crimes described by the State Bar Court Hearing DepartmentBeginning in or about June 2011, Respondent, with three non-attorneys, began operating a law…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
University of Kansas Researcher Indicted for Fraud for Failing to Disclose Conflict of Interest with Chinese University
A researcher at the University of Kansas (KU) was indicted today on federal charges of hiding the fact he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research…
Legal Profession Blog
A Stetch In Time
The New York Appellate Division for the Second Judicial Department ordered a two-year suspension for an aggravated failure to supervise an attorney employeeAt the disciplinary hearing, the respondent admitted that…
Religion Clause
Suit Charges Mormon Church With Intentional Misrepresentation of Its History
A former member of the Mormon Church filed suit this week in a Utah federal district court accusing the "Mormon Corporate Empire" of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, RICO violations…
PrawfsBlawg
Confusion of the Inverse??
Main Friday, August 02, 2019Confusion of the Inverse??At JOTWELL, Omri Ben-Shahar has a review of a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law Review claiming to have shown in a study…
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Father and Son Sentenced to Prison in Multimillion-Dollar Investment Fraud Scheme
A father and son who ran a complex investment fraud scheme by which they stole more than $10 million over the course of seven years were sentenced today to 60…
Credit Chronometer
Shut the Fraud Door – Impound Fraud Losses Are Preventable
It happens too often. An auto lender or servicer learns their collateral has been towed for repairs and the garage claims a priority lien that can only be discharged by…