White Collar Crimes

White collar crime has received much coverage in recent years with high-profile corporate scandals. The regulation of corporate governance has increased with the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and more conduct has become subject to prosecution.

The difference between regular theft and white collar theft is that force or fear is used in the commission of a regular theft. White collar crime is different. This crime is the use of trickery or fraud rather than force or fear to convince an individual to entrust property to the thief. Typically, the victim of white collar crime is not the subject of violence, and he or she is generally not in fear of violence when unknowingly giving property to a thief.

The investigative period prior to formal charges offers you an excellent opportunity to protect yourself through counsel in many different ways:

• Advice about whether and how much to cooperate with the investigation
• Advice about your grand jury testimony
• Early engagement with the prosecution to determine your status in the investigation - are you a target, a subject or a witness?
• Negotiation of the turnover of documents and other evidence to the prosecution to save you the trouble of an FBI raid at your home or office
• Testing the quality of the government's evidence against you

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