With the ever-growing realm of internet crimes, federal prosecutors are upgrading into the times with thoughts of new sentencing guidelines. Michael Dubose at the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property has warned “cyber-criminals are increasingly using sophisticated technological tools like ‘proxies’ to evade detection and prosecution.” These proxies might…
Last week a judge turned down prosecutors’ request to jail the recent $50 billion-dollar-disappear magician Madoff. He had sent many pieces of jewelry to close family in the weeks after his investigation took hold. Nearly $173 million in signed checks were stashed away in a drawer of his office, in…
Willie H. Nowell’s death sentence was overturned recently by the high court. Nowell and his accomplice were charged with the following: (1) first-degree premeditated murder; (2) attempted first-degree premeditated murder; (3) killing of an unborn child by injury to the mother; (4) armed burglary of a structure while inflicting great…
FEDERAL SENTENCING NEWS Our friends at the US Supreme Court have taken a refreshing step towards the rule of law by pulling back out-of-control federal sentences. The Supreme Court ruled that a federal appeals court cannot enhance a sentence unless asked to by the prosecutor. Although it seems wrong it…
SECURITIES LAW VIOLATIONS IN FLORIDA Criminal defense attorneys who are familiar with securities law prosecutions, and white collar crime are often certified Arbitrators for the National Association of Security Dealers (The NASD). Knowing securities law is essential if a lawyer is defending someone for a white collar crime, money laundering…
Money laundering for most of us is finding a $10 bill in the clothes dryer. Forgetting to check your pockets when you put your jeans in the laundry is the precursor to clothes dryer joy. Forgetting to check your pockets for the $10,000.00 in pocket-change you carry when you walk…
Federal criminal prosecutions too often are one-sided. For many accused and tried in Federal court it appears to them that the rules change with each turn of the wheel. Florida federal criminal defense attorneys see it again and again. From drug possession prosecutions through wire fraud and money laundering the…