Business LLaw
Corporate Fraud
Falsification of financial information of public and private corporations, including:
False accounting entries and/or misrepresentations of financial condition;
Fraudulent trades designed to inflate profit or hide losses; and
Illicit transactions designed to evade regulatory oversight.
Self-dealing by corporate insiders, including:
Insider trading—trading based on material, non-public information—including, but not limited to:
Corporate insiders leaking proprietary information;
Attorneys involved in merger and acquisition negotiations leaking info;
Matchmaking firms facilitating information leaks;
Traders profiting or avoiding losses through trading; and
Payoffs or bribes in exchange for leaked information.
Kickbacks;
Misuse of corporate property for personal gain; and
Individual tax violations related to self-dealing.
Counterfeiting
Counterfeit currency and security documents
The crime of counterfeiting currency is as old as the creation of money itself. Recent developments in photographic, computer and printing technologies, along with the availability of low-cost equipment, have made the production of counterfeit money relatively easy.
Criminals often use stolen or fake identity documents in order to carry out financial crimes. We are leading an international, cross-sector partnership to improve the level of security of official documents.
Embezzlement
In America, embezzlement is a statutory offense so the definition of the crime varies from statute to statute. Typical elements are (1) the fraudulent (2) conversion (3) of the property (4) of another (5) by a person who has lawful possession of the property.[2]
Fraudulent: The requirement that the conversion be fraudulent means simply that the defendant willfully and without claim of right or mistake converted the property to his or her own use.
Conversion: Embezzlement is a crime against ownership; that is, the owner's right to control the disposition and use of the
Falsification of financial information of public and private corporations, including:
False accounting entries and/or misrepresentations of financial condition;
Fraudulent trades designed to inflate profit or hide losses; and
Illicit transactions designed to evade regulatory oversight.
Self-dealing by corporate insiders, including:
Insider trading—trading based on material, non-public information—including, but not limited to:
Corporate insiders leaking proprietary information;
Attorneys involved in merger and acquisition negotiations leaking info;
Matchmaking firms facilitating information leaks;
Traders profiting or avoiding losses through trading; and
Payoffs or bribes in exchange for leaked information.
Kickbacks;
Misuse of corporate property for personal gain; and
Individual tax violations related to self-dealing.
Counterfeiting
Counterfeit currency and security documents
The crime of counterfeiting currency is as old as the creation of money itself. Recent developments in photographic, computer and printing technologies, along with the availability of low-cost equipment, have made the production of counterfeit money relatively easy.
Criminals often use stolen or fake identity documents in order to carry out financial crimes. We are leading an international, cross-sector partnership to improve the level of security of official documents.
Embezzlement
In America, embezzlement is a statutory offense so the definition of the crime varies from statute to statute. Typical elements are (1) the fraudulent (2) conversion (3) of the property (4) of another (5) by a person who has lawful possession of the property.[2]
Fraudulent: The requirement that the conversion be fraudulent means simply that the defendant willfully and without claim of right or mistake converted the property to his or her own use.
Conversion: Embezzlement is a crime against ownership; that is, the owner's right to control the disposition and use of the