A white-collar crime is a crime committed by a person at his or her workplace and it mostly involves indulging in a mischief in order to make financial gains. Most white-collar crimes go undetected and unfortunately sometimes innocent people get charged with white-collar crimes due to a misunderstanding or false accusation. If you are convicted of white-collar crime it can leave long-standing implications upon your professional career. You need criminal defense attorneys who understand the intricacies of white-collar crimes and will build a defense for you designed to clear your name.
Some white-collar crimes are, bribery, counterfeit control substance, counterfeit bills, commercial bribery, credit card fraud, fraudulent refunds, fraud use credit card, forgery, invasion by false personation or representation, insurance fraud, misleading ads, false impersonation, pyramid schemes, staged accident, and tax evasion.
Please find these white collar crimes briefly described below. If you have any further questions regarding a case involving a white collar crime that you or a loved one may be charged with do not hesitate to contact our office at (305) 672-8434 or 1-888-50 DEFENSE today for a free initial consultation.
Bribery
Bribery stands for inducement (especially money) offered to procure illegal and dishonest action or decision in favor of the giver. In other words, bribery is something offered to procure illegal actions in favor of the giver. Bribery is considered as one of the prominent white collar crimes and is much more prevalent in government services of the country. The acceptance (esp. monetary) is un- authorized by law as the aim to impact the decisions and act of the accepter to gain anticipated outcomes in favor of the giver is illicit.
Counterfeit Control Sub
Counterfeit control substance is another type of white collar crime. It is illegal for any person to represent a fake copy as the original. No person is entitled to make a false representation and deliver a counterfeit control substance. You are found guilty in the eyes of the law if you attempt or sale, manufacture, and deliver a counterfeit controlled substances.
Counterfeit Bills
If a person is involved in creating untrue, fraudulent imitation of currency notes, original bank bills, plates, dies, other tools then this is considered as one of the illegitimate practices under White Collar Crimes. Anyone found indictable shall be taken into custody immediately by the cops.
Commercial Bribery
Commercial Bribery is a well-known White Collar offense. Bribery is something offered to procure unlawful actions in favor of the giver. Commercial bribery is about purchasing an agent [who is subject to duty described in s. 838.15(1)] in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction and influencing that person to break that duty to gain an illicit advantage.
Credit Card Fraud
Any person who presents or intents to present mendacious financial statements in writings regarding his/her financial statues (assets and liabilities) or untrue financial statements of any firm/organization of which he/she is part of, in order to procure cash, goods, credit or any other property, is considered as a credit card fraud by that person. Credit card fraud is a white collar offence and the concerned person is held as the guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Fraudulent Refunds
Many business houses provide refund facilities to their customers to increase customer satisfaction. However, this practice has opened wide doors to fraudulent refund practices. The person prosecutes into an on-going and regular process to steal merchandise from the business and then return them for a refund. He/She intentionally provides an unreal and fictitious name and address pretending to be real without the actual person’s knowledge and commendation. So that person practicing such unethical practices is considered as another white collar criminal held guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
Fraud use Credit Card
Fraudulent use of credit card is so predominant that anybody can get trapped if proper privacy is not maintained. Credit card fraud is the outcome of theft of the original (physical) of CC or insecure online transactions like banking, shopping etc. The purpose of credit card fraud is mainly due to:
1. Secure unauthorized monetary funds.
2. Own Goods without paying.
A person who is found indulging in such a deceitful and fallacious act of obtaining goods, credit, money or other property of the true owner of the specified credit card is considered as a punishable white collar offender.
Forgery
A person who makes or writes a fraudulent imitation of any useful certificates, counterfeits of any public record, return or attestation of any important person like a register of a court, public register, notary public, town clerk or any public officer and uses it as a legal proof then such an attempt is considered as forged attempt.
Invasion by False Personation
When a person enters and gets into a private association or business by a false enactment or representation with the motive to commit serious crime like murder he or she commits a felony of the second degree. But if a person commits a serious crime that results in death, then that is considered as a felony of the first degree.
Insurance Fraud
Insurance fraud is another well-known white collar crime where the insured person or business firms lies intentionally to gain some kind of benefits (esp. monetary) which they are actually not entitled too! Moreover, insurance frauds are also committed by some insurance firms when any person or entire firm knowingly denies real benefits due to a person or firm to which they are entitled too!
Misleading Ads
Misleading ads can constitute false promotion or representation or spurious offerings by person/s, associations, partnerships or institutions. It also includes promoting offers that display misleading facts about securities, merchandise, certificates and diplomas, documents or credentials to increase the consumption of some offering.
False Impersonation
False impersonation is a white collar crime created when a person poses to pretend to be someone he/she is not with some fraudulent intentions or represents any third party and receives any property by this process intended to be delivered to the party so personated. The person who intentionally presumes a false or fictitious identity and, under that identity, does any other act intending unlawfully to gain a benefit for himself or herself commits a white collar crime.
Pyramid Schemes
If a person invests or spends in excess of $100 on any financial sales or marketing plan to purposefully acquire the benefit in an unauthentic manner. Pyramid scheme sales method is a scam that involves exchange of money by inscribing people without any product or service being delivered. This is a pretence act and any person or business firms, or whoever involved in solicitation of any person for membership or subscriptions are subject to a felony of the first degree.
Staged Accident
When a person plans and organize or deliberately indulges himself with any kind of intentional accidents like car crash, motor vehicle accident and create some false documents for the purpose of making false claims from the insurance company then it is considered as felony of the second degree. If any person or business firm indulges in such a kind of white collar crime, then he/she is subjected to 2 years of imprisonment
Tax Evasion
Tax evasion is an illicit effort made by earning individuals, business firms and other entities to evade tax. Tax evasion implies the deliberate efforts made by the tax payers to duck tax payments by misrepresenting or concealing the real financial statuses of their affairs to the government tax authorities to reduce their tax liabilities. Any person, business firms, trusts or other entities indulging in such practices are held guilty in the eyes of the law under third degree.
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