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April 2017

Differences Between Surety Bonds and Insurance

Surety Bonds are for consumer protection that coincides with professional services and licenses. Surety bonds are one of the oldest forms of insurance dating back thousands of years. Surety bonds are more of a reverse insurance policy protecting the consumer not the principal of the surety bond. Commercial Insurance protects your business from being sued. […]

Healthcare Fraud: Braden Partners, L.P., Has Agreed to Pay To Teijin Pharma USA LLC, for Violating the False Claims Act

Oxygen Equipment Provider Pays $11.4 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations The Department of Justice announced today that Braden Partners, L.P., doing business as Pacific Pulmonary Services, has agreed to pay $11.4 million to resolve allegations against it and its general partner, Teijin Pharma USA LLC, for violating the False Claims Act by submitting […]

Tax Fraud: Dan Farhad Kalili, David Ramin Kalili And David Shahrokh Azarian Sentenced For Hiding Millions of Dollars

Southern California Residents sentenced to Prison for Hiding Millions of Dollars in Secret Foreign Bank Accounts Failed to Report Swiss and Israeli Accounts Held for Over a Decade Three Orange County, California residents were sentenced to prison today for willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Acting Deputy Assistant […]

Why Trusts Don’t Work for Asset Protection

A trust is the right to the beneficial enjoyment of property to which another person holds the legal title; a property interest held by one person (the trustee) at the request of another (the settlor) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary). Trusts have different names depending on their purpose, i.e., Land Trusts, Charitable Remainder […]

Financial Fraud: Moiz Mumtaz Ali Charged With Commit Bank Fraud, Theft of Public Money, And Aggravated Identity Theft

Federal Grand Jury Indicts McKinney Man Charged With Fraudulently Obtaining and Cashing $16 Million in U.S. Treasury Checks DALLAS – An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Dallas last week, and unsealed today, charges Moiz Mumtaz Ali, 36, of McKinney, Texas, with offenses related to his role in fraudulently obtaining and cashing 3,423 […]

Financial Fraud And Environment: Volkswagen AG Sentenced To Conspiracy to Defraud The United States, Engage in Wire Fraud, And Violate the Clean Air Act

Volkswagen AG Sentenced in Connection with Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests Volkswagen AG (VW) was sentenced in federal court in Detroit today after pleading guilty on March 10, 2017, to three felony counts of: (1) conspiracy to defraud the United States, engage in wire fraud, and violate the Clean Air Act; (2) obstruction of […]

Financial Fraud: Roman Valeryevich Seleznev Convicted to Steal Credit Card Numbers And Sell Them on Dark Market Websites

Russian Cyber-Criminal Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Hacking and Credit Card Fraud Scheme Stole and Sold Millions of Credit Card Numbers – Defrauding Victims of More Than $169 Million WASHINGTON – A 32-year-old Vladivostok, Russia, man was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for his computer hacking crimes that caused more than […]

Financial Fraud: A&D General Contracting, Inc. (“A&D”) and Action Telecom, Inc. (“Action”) Indicted For Veteran Set-Aside Fraud Scheme

Government Contractors Indicted in $11 Million Veteran Set-Aside Fraud Scheme Assistant U.S. Attorneys Rebecca S. Kanter (619-546-7304) and Aaron P. Arnzen (619-546-8384) SAN DIEGO, CA – Owners of local construction and telecommunications companies were arraigned in federal court today on charges that they fraudulently obtained more than $11 million in federal contracts specifically set aside […]

Accountant Job Description

An accountant’s job entails working to ensure that business firms and individuals are keeping good records and paying taxes properly and on time. Though the accountant job description for some accounting positions may be simple, other accountant job descriptions are not quite as clear because of the number of duties that are required. In general, […]

Financial Fraud: TRAVELL THOMAS Sentenced For Orchestrating a Scheme Through False Threats And Representations

Owner And CEO Of Debt Collection Company Sentenced To 100 Months In Prison For Orchestrating $31 Million Debt Collection Scheme Thousands of Consumers Victimized in Largest Debt Collection Scheme Ever Charged Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TRAVELL THOMAS, the owner, chief executive officer […]