In New York City, Long Island and New Jersey, doctors are often subject to offers and requests from other medical professionals, drug companies and medical device manufacturers to use their products. In some cases, they are under the impression that there is nothing...
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Embezzlement
Understanding types of financial fraud
The definition of financial fraud is intentional deception for financial gain, such as with insider trading, embezzlement and Ponzi schemes. Residents of New York may want to learn about the types and signs of financial fraud. Insider trading Insider trading is a type...
Basics of financial institution fraud in New York
When people work with a bank or mortgage company, they want to make sure that their money is safe from fraud. However, financial institution fraud. Read on to learn more about this type of fraud. What is financial institution fraud? Financial institution fraud is...
Man sentenced for money laundering through payroll companies
On August 4, the New York Attorney General announced that a Northville man was sentenced for a $4 billion money-laundering scheme. The 51-year-old man is alleged to have stolen over $1 billion in diverted payroll funds using payroll services that he operated. Payroll...
Man to be sentenced in embezzlement scheme
A New York man who owned several nursing home and rehabilitation facilities entered a guilty plea to multiple charges in a Bridgeport federal court. The 71-year-old acknowledged that he stole $4.1 million from the Bridgeport Health Care Center pension plan between...
Book printer indicted for wire fraud, embezzlement
On Dec. 19, the owner of a book printing business in New York was arraigned on charges of embezzlement and wire fraud. The 63-year-old man was handed 10 wire fraud counts for allegedly submitting falsified invoices. In addition, he was charged with one count of...
Church official charged with embezzling $500,000
A New York man has been charged with embezzling more than $500,000 from a religious nonprofit organization. The 55-year-old Suffolk County resident was employed by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. He now works as a...
New York man charged with embezzling union funds
A 48-year-old New York man faces up to five years in prison after being charged with embezzling more than $30,000 from a steelworkers union. The Chemung County resident could also be ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. The charges were announced by the U.S. Attorney's...
What is a ghost employee?
Embezzlement may seem to you to be such a deliberate action that you may think that no one can engage in it without knowing exactly what is it that they are doing. Thus, you may feel secure in the notion that you will never face such accusations. What happens, then,...
Embezzlement charges for alleged defrauding of employer
People who work for companies and hold positions of some authority may often be in positions where they may be purchasing decisions for the business. This means they may approve the payment of money to other partners, vendors or suppliers. One man in New York is today...