Elder fraud has become a priority for federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida with the passage of a 2017 federal law combating financial crimes targeting seniors and the implementation of the Elder Justice Initiative by the Department of Justice. Elder
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South Florida is the nation’s capital of mortgage fraud, according to the third quarter 2019 mortgage fraud report by the analytic firm CoreLogic, which found that 241 applications in the metro area of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach raised red flags to lenders. The
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South Florida is said to be the leader in federal health care fraud indictments and seizures, and is teaching other districts how to prosecute health care fraud cases. In just the past two weeks, there have been two major health care fraud take downs
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Federal criminal cases begin with the filing of either an indictment or an information, both of which are documents that set forth detailed accusations of wrongdoing by the defendant. An indictment can only be obtained by a prosecutor by convincing a federal
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A total of 30 defendants have been charged with offenses relating to their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. Those charged include physicians as well as other medical and business professionals. The charges announced involve schemes
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A wealthy Miami Beach health care executive, who owned and operated a network of more than 30 nursing homes and assisted living facilities in South Florida, was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors described a massive
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Prosecutors charged a South Florida movie producer, his business partner and a former Wells Fargo banker with wire fraud and money laundering over a multimillion-dollar investment scheme. The three men allegedly defrauded investors by promising attractive returns from planned movies, theater shows
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Criminal Intent is Hard to Prove There are two essential elements that prosecutors in every criminal case must prove beyond a reasonable doubt: the criminal act (known as the actus reus) and the criminal intent (known as the mens rea). Criminal acts
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The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday August 7, 2019 that defendants won’t be able to beat criminal charges of patient brokering related to the opioid epidemic in Palm Beach County by claiming they got bad advice from their attorneys.
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Destroying evidence during an investigation may seem like an obvious example of obstruction of justice. Title 18 U.S. Code §1519 is the law that refers to destroying, altering or falsifying records. It is relevant when a company or individual is under federal
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