Mortgage Fraud Defense Obtaining money or property by any fraudulent means, device or scheme, is the underlying criminal act for prosecutions of mortgage fraud or bank fraud. Providing false information, fraudulent documents, and material misrepresentations of income or assets to obtain bank financing can be prosecuted as a grand theft,…
THE POLITICS OF PROSECUTION MIAMI STYLE Fort Lauderdale and Miami criminal courts will soon be flooded with grand theft and mortgage fraud trials. Announcing that another 30 real estate professionals have been arrested the Mayor of Miami told reporters a total of 50 have been charaged with grand theft, fraud,…
FORT LAUDERDALE AND MIAMI LEADS U.S. IN MORTGAGE BROKER ARRESTS Leading a list of cities that features Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Miami, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida has, in the first half of 2008, arrested and charged a record number of mortgage brokers…
In Florida convicted felons cannot vote. Governor Crist has advocated returning civil rights to convicted felons after they have served their time. Southern states such as Florida have a history of racially based obstructions for minority voters: tactics such as poll taxes, literacy laws, and political gerrymandering. There are currently…
On June 1, 2008 The Justice Department released its newest version of what are the Federal Sex Offender Registration standards. It is called the Sexual Offender Notification ACT (SORNA) These new the guidelines are for the Adam Walsh Act’s sex offender registration and notification provisions of Florida and other states.…
The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the death penalty for sexual battery (rape) of a child. Eighty-five Republican congressmen wrote to the Court to tell them they got it wrong. The letter said the Supreme Court had inaccurate information and should re-consider the death penalty. The letter noted that…
Florida travel agencies are suing Florida to repeal a law making it more expensive to travel to….Iran? The Florida legislature took time from its busy schedule of fixing Florida to repair the world. SB 1310 requires a $1000.00 registry fee and a minimum $100,000.00 security bond of anyone traveling to…
Domestic violence, murder, and Florida criminal law In a domestic violence case that will have a significant effect in South Florida the US Supreme Court ruled that introduction of the victim’s calls to the police cannot be introduced in a domestic violence criminal trial. In the case of Giles v.…
Criminal defense attorneys in Florida increasingly are speaking out against the politically targeted and politically motivated prosecutions mounted by the US attorney in South Florida. Fort Lauderdale and Miami have seen arrests of local real estate professionals by the federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida explode in numbers…
The judges of the second judicial circuit on July 9, 2008 ruled that breath results can be admitted in evidence. That means the 200 DUI cases currently on hold are going back to trial with the breath results. Fort Lauderdale DUI lawyers last year took the same issue up to…