Saturday, October 2, 2010

White Collar Crime Major Target of Federal Prosecutions

http://www.johntfloyd.com/corporate-crime-lawyer.htm

Well looking at some of the categories of corporate crime, I do believe the banks are actually in more trouble than just meets the eye.


The ECU targets individuals, businesses and industries in the following areas:

•Corporate fraud
•Insurance fraud (non-health care related)
•Securities and commodities fraud
•Mass marketing fraud
•Telemarketing fraud
•Ponzi schemes
•Advance fees schemes
•Pyramid schemes


The primary goal of the FIFU, according to the FBI, is to identify, target, disrupt, and dismantle “criminal organizations and individuals engaged in fraud schemes” against the nation’s financial institutions in the following areas:

•Financial institution failures
•Insider fraud
•Check fraud
•Counterfeit negotiable instruments
•Check kiting
•Loan fraud
•Mortgage fraud
The primary goal of AF/MLU is, according to the FBI, “to promote the strategic use of asset forfeiture” by making sure that its “field offices” utilize money laundering violations in all appropriate investigations “to disrupt and/or dismantle criminal enterprises.” The unit’s resources are directed in the following areas:

•Identity theft
•Data entry and analysis of financial documents
•Forensic accounting
•Tracing assets subject to forfeiture