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Fraud
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Sentencing Law and Policy
Jamie Olis sentence overturned by the 5th Circuit!
Main November 1, 2005Jamie Olis sentence overturned by the 5th Circuit!More than eight months after oral argument, the Fifth Circuit late on Monday finally resolved the appeal of Jamie Olis,…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Principal Steals From Students
By Ellen Podgor
Sometimes you see a case in which you wonder whether people can sink much lower. A principal at an elementary school in Clinton Township, Michigan, entered a guilty plea to…
Elder Law Prof Blog
New scams aimed at seniors exploit Medicare Part D rollout
Authorities areinvestigating two possible scams aimed at getting financial informationfrom Medicare patients who are eligible for new prescription drugbenefits, U.S. officials said on Friday as they announced new effortsto fight…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Letter to the Editor
By Ellen Podgor
Capitol Weekly reports here a new kind of scheme - writing letters to the editor under different pen names. To make matters worse, the letters sometimes supported each other and…
ContractsProf Blog
Bengals Bite Fans
Season ticket holders for the long-hapless Cincinnati Bengals have sometimes talked about suing the team -- maybe for fraud, in claiming to be an NFL team -- but with the…
California Employment Law Update
Employer’s Lawsuit Against Employee Who Filed Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claim Was Properly Dismissed
By Tony Oncidi
Leegin Creative Leather Prods., Inc. v. Diaz, 131 Cal. App. 4th 1517 (2005) Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. filed a civil fraud complaint against one of its employees after it…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Pleas of Fraud & Conspiracy for founders in Bayou Group Case
By Ellen Podgor
Two key players in the Bayou fiasco are pleading guilty, but there are still many questions as to where the money can be found. In the New York Times here…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Response to Katrina Fraud
By Ellen Podgor
In contrast to the government response in handling the Katrina disaster, the preparations in place for handling the Katrina frauds are extensive. Attorney General Gonzales in a press release here…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Prosecutor Indicts Former Employee of Charitable Foundation
By Ellen Podgor
Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports an indictment of "[a] former finance director" of a local chapter of a well known foundation. See AJC here.What should you do…
British Columbia Insurance Blog
Kemp v. Insurance Corp. of British Columbia [2005] B.C.J. No. 2126 British Columbia Provincial Court
The Court held that the insurer had not satisfied the onus of providing "clear and cogent evidence" required to establish the quasi-criminal allegation of fraud on the part of the…