I have a question. How much time can one do or what is the maximum sentence for a Fraud Conviction.?
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A friend was picked up by the FBI last year in October for Theft by Government contract.(Medicaid Fraud). On a 20,000 bond. We paid 2,000 and got him out. so now he has an arraignment in Oct. and A trial by jury in Nov.
His story……Got in business with someone who is the owner of the said company that the fraudulent billing took place. He is not the owner yet the department of Attorney General decided to include him as a part owner because he was the one who managed the billing and the patient information which as stated by the Medicaid Investigators, were all stolen and used without the patients knowledge. Making matters worse, Doctors signatures were also fraudulent, meaning someone must have forged those too. The total amount received fraudulently, over 200,000.00. Which i think is a class 2 Felony.

So what are the chances that he will get less time by using the landownership defense as a strategy and get off on maybe probation and some fines? His lawyer keeps telling him that all he will get is a couple of months probation but i disagree.

NOTE:Most of the billing paperwork has his name on it. so he can not say he didn’t know what was happening.
So all you lawyers out there help me let him understand that he is in for a long hard ride in jail. what do you all think?
@Honey, Thank you for the information. His name appears on most documents because he basically ran the company as instructed by The Owner. Yet the owner, in his own defense claims on not knowing of the fraudulent activities. The owner also claims that he only paid him to market and get in contact with doctors. So basically He has excluded himself from the said activities.
additionally, he sighed off on all documents. (Allegedly Fraudulent )
This happened in Texas

If a medical dept chairman signs a recommendation questionnaire for a resident that asks if that resident has ever had any problems or been suspended and the chairman says the resident has had no problems but the chairman knows the resident had problems because the chairman suspended the resident himself, is this considered fraud?And what if this resident, after graduation, went on to be arrested for obtaining drugs through fraud? Can this department chairman still be prosecuted for medical license fraud? Who would investigate, the state attorney’s office or the FBI?

Reporting from Washington — Despite an expected wave of fraud in the trillion-dollar bailout that aims to stop the ongoing financial meltdown, federal law enforcement officials told Congress on Wednesday that they have nowhere near the level of resources to combat it.

Top FBI and Justice Department officials said they believed mortgage fraud and other types of corporate criminal behavior has contributed to the economic tailspin. And they said they already have more than 2,300 open investigations into suspected illegal financial activity — including 38 probes specifically linked to the crisis.

I asked a question earlier about the FBI investigating my fraud case and received very helpful answers. Thank you to all who took the time to answer my questions.

My follow up question is how likely is my local police department to investigate my fraud case for ,000 if the person involved is all the way across the country?

My impression is I should go about this myself and hire a lawyer to track this down, would you agree?

Thanks again for your help.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

hello i was wondering if a parent of a child can go to prison if the kid commits fraud.. for example not big fraud like wire fraud or mail fraud but a small fraud like say there is a website that awards you points for searching the web and if you refer someone you get 50 points… so say if you get 3000 points then you get a 5 dollar amazon gift card…. and you made a bunch of fake email address"s" so that you could get a bunch of point so you could get a 5 dollar amazon giftcard… well if you made a bunch of fake email address"s" and then redemed the point for a 5 dollars amazon gift card.. and the company sent a letter saying a bunch of stuff like this dues to fruad and we may contact the fbi cyber crime scene services…. can the parent go to jail or prison for this act? please tell me everything you would know about this.. for example.. could the parent go to prison or jail? or would they just be fined and go to court? WHAT I REALLY KNOW IS .. IS THERE ANY WAY THAT A PARENT MAY HAVE TO GO TO JAIL OR PRISON FOR THAT?
thanks and best answer gets 10 points

Distress Homeowners Assist Line, DHAL is under legal investigation for fraud and operating under the title of a non-profit organization. They are in fact a marketing company, selling the information they obtain, through the public trust, to lawyers and real estate firms. They primarily make their money via commissions when the client pays for a Loan Modification. If you have been abused by this company, please contact the FBI or BBB.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., urged the FBI and the Justice Department to put people who have committed mortgage fraud behind bars.
investigators have 530 active corporate fraud investigations, and 38 of them involve some of the biggest names in corporate finance —
I have personally seen a web page letter.were house loan brokers were advising clients, how to up their stated income, a.I -. yep. how to cheat, big names, these guys have bend the rules and have helped put the usa and us in a house of cards. because of greed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bailout_fraud

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., urged the FBI and the Justice Department to put people who have committed mortgage fraud behind bars.
investigators have 530 active corporate fraud investigations, and 38 of them involve some of the biggest names in corporate finance —
I have personally seen a web page letter.were house loan brokers were advising clients, how to up their stated income, a.I -. yep. how to cheat, big names, these guys have bend the rules and have helped put the usa and us in a house of cards. because of greed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bailout_fraud

The government has continually harrassed me through invasion of privacy and interfered in my employment, healthcare, education, insurance, etc. for a couple of decades. I turned the government in for mismanagment, fraud and abuse ( stealing million and systematically murdering anyone who got in their way) during the Reagan administration while working for the Department of Defense. In 2003, I found myself in the middle of a criminal toxic tort (illegal factory human toxic experiment) and again turned those involved in for first degree murder of one coworker and several counts of serious assault. The owner running the tort (CIA/OSI industrialist) admitted it and even inferred one intent of the tort was to chronically poison me to death. He showed no remorse or fear of prosecution. The Police, FBI and DOJ don’t deny it, just refuse to investigate or take a report – all claiming they have no jurisdiction. I am the "skeliton in the closet" of some seriously powerful people. What do I do?

Okay…I have a little situation that I need some advice for… I signed up to work selling for a dropshipper…Basically, he had a website with some items on it, I got on eBay and listed the items. When they sell, people payed me through Paypal and I would pay the dropshipper, give him the names and addresses and then he would take it from there. He has a warehouse in the US that he uses to store the items.

Well, recently, he had added some ‘larger’ items that would bring in more profit. One in particular was a set of Rosetta Stone software. I would list it at about 0 and I bought it from the drop shipper for about 0.

Well, I sold about 30 in a week’s time. Now, the problem is, eBay cancelled all my auctions and kicked me off eBay. They also took the liberty of emailing all my customers and telling them that it was fraudulent and that they all needed to call the police, fraud department, and even the FBI!!!

I called my drop shipper and asked him what was going on and why they would do that. I even asked him if they were pirated materials (since one of the customers told me that he had gotten a pirated copy) He won’t answer me and tell me whether or not they are fakes. He just keeps telling me that I will win all the disputes on Paypal (since people were getting a little suspicious since I was ‘no longer a registered user’ on eBay) since they are non-reciepts. That’s not the issue…if these are pirated materials, I am in big trouble for selling them!!

Another issue, is these are coming from China. I just assumed since they were from him, he would have them in his warehouse in the US.
Now, I’m not really sure what to do because, if in fact these are pirated, I could be in a whole lot of legal trouble.

Another thing, is if he refunds the money on these, he will only refund what I paid him for. The problem with this is, I had to pay a lot of eBay fees and Paypal fees so, I would be out probably close to for each sale. times 30 is….a LOT!!

I need to know what steps I should take to protect myself! Any advice would be very helpful! Thanks!

One that said I won and just need to provide my name, occupation, etc and I get 8 million in a Nigerian bank account. I wanted to reply that my name was William Radczak, and my occupation is Assistant Director of the FBI’s counter cyber fraud division , and list my number as the FBI’s fraud tip hotline.

What is the harm in replying to these scams?

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage fraud reports jumped 36 percent last year as desperate homeowners and industry professionals tried to maintain their standard of living from the boom years, the FBI said on Tuesday.

Suspicious activity reports rose to 63,713 in fiscal year 2008, which ended last September, from 46,717 the year before. California and Florida, centers of the housing bust, had the highest numbers of suspicious reports as foreclosures jumped, the stock market dropped and credit dried up.

What happened? ‘Though that fool Biden said there would be lots of this, I also thought he’d been assigned that very responsibility.

Can Obama do anything right?

I have a question in regards to identity theft…

I knew someone who was a victim and they never found out who stole his identity. How do the FBI and police find the theif? What if their smart and use a different mailbox/phones computers to actually steal identity. I guess this is a sad question in regards that milllions get their identity stolen per year. bye

U.S. mortgage fraud reports jumped 36 percent last year as desperate homeowners and industry professionals tried to maintain their standard of living from the boom years, the FBI said on Tuesday. Suspicious activity reports rose to 63,713 in fiscal year 2008, which ended last September, from 46,717 the year before. California and Florida, centers of the housing bust, had the highest numbers of suspicious reports as foreclosures jumped, the stock market dropped and credit dried up. "Industry employees sought to maintain the high standard of living they enjoyed during the boom years of the real estate market and overextended mortgage holders were often desperate to reduce or eliminate their bloated mortgage payments," it said. Reports filed through March put fraud reports on track to top 70,000 in the current fiscal year, the agency said.

When you mandate mortgage fraud, you shouldn’t be too surprised when you actually get it.

Of course it is those greedy ‘industry professionals’ who are to blame. Or is it?

Predatory Lending involved Mort broker, escrow officer, brokers friend. Fraud proven, title company settled. Broker atty claims he has no money. He has 35 employees and several companies. The woman owns property. We are losing our home on 2/11. Can I file a lien against them. The judge says we have to buy our home back for 450K property appraised yesterdaya at 407K. If we don not provide letter to judge by 2/11 showing we can get loan for that amt, there will be a short sale. FBI cannot believe this judge. We have spent 75K on legal fees to get our home back in our name. We purchased home in 1975.

Criminals who seize control of tens of thousands of home and office computers through what are known as "botnets" are a dramatically growing threat, Shawn Henry, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, tells Newsmax.

A botnet — short for robot network — allows a criminal to seize control of any number of computers by introducing malicious programs like spyware, viruses, worms, or trojan horses into each computer through its Internet connection.

With a single command, the master of the computer network can have each of the slave computers contact a particular computer network, bringing it down because of the sheer demand on its ports. That can cause a company to lose millions of dollars in business. If the target is a police department or hospital, shutting down its computer system can jeopardize public safety or health.

http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/internet_botnet_threat_/2008/03/24/82567.html

I asked this before but not satisfied with answer. Please don’t tell me to call police they only laugh or say sorry can not help you.Isn’t there another organization besides romance scam. How about FBI? Anyone know their phone number?

Do you really think we should get rid of all the consumer protection agencies, the SEC, SIPIC, FBI, EPA, FDA, etc., and the State Attorney General’s and let the average citizen to the wolves?
Bill: Only Simm’s wants an educated consumer, we also need the government to educate the consumer not the cigarett companies, credit card companies, drug, food companies, not them!!

My home was taken from me by mortgage fraud, I can not afford an attorney. I have legal aid. They have now given me two attorney's. They have informed me , I definently have been scammed. But because it is so detailed and so much involved , Because they are a free service only so much time can be invested into my case. If I can help by finding information out about these preditors , It will help me . as of now I'm basically screwed unless I can see if they have done this before. I do I search online for information on who has commited mortgage fraud. I've tried FBI files and many others please help me stop them from doing this to another family with children. They took advantage of me at my low time.

Joe the Plumber – Average American – Does not have own plumbing license (operating under company’s license)/ Had a tax lien that he was not aware of (according to him), asked a socialist a question.
Barack Obama – Presidential candidate – Attended a racist/ antisemitic/ anti-American church for 20 years and mentioned pastor as spiritual mentor, Business friend in felony trial, is “friendly” (according to his adviser) with an unrepentant terrorist, was campaigning for a ruthless thug in Kenya (Odinga), is tied to an organization being investigated by the FBI for voter fraud and more.

When lard-ass was First Lady, I sent her a 235-page report on the death and mistreatment of a patient fraudulently diagnosed and treated for cancer and murdered to cover it up. This was a clear cut case of Medicare fraud and murder.

Hillary sent the report back to me, with a letter stating she would not involve herself in such matters.
Firewomen . . . yes, I did go the police and also to the FBI. The FBI concluded it was a murder and referred the case to the state, because there is no federal homicide statute. This took 8 years! Hillary could have done something much sooner. Instead, she sent the report back with an insulting letter. That letter will find its way to the press, I assure you.

I'm in the process of investigating an internet fraud that was commited aginst myself and several others. It seems organized crime in BUCHAREST, Romania is using the internet to do all kinds of fraud against an unknown number of people. So far I've tracked three cases and would like access to the email accounts they use on Yahoo (and other sites like hotmail). I am willing to file in court and go throug the motions to get access. I would just like to get some legal advice I guess. Thanks all.
Don't call me a moron, what's wrong with you? I'm not ungrateful. I love yahoo. But to gain access to someone's account on Yahoo you must file a motion in court against Yahoo itself. Yahoo is the organization that actually owns the information I want to gain access to. It's a legal issue, not a personal one against Yahoo. Don't misread my post and just going off on an emotional tangent. I'm just looking for advice as to how to file this type of case in court. I've never filed a court case before and will do my own research since none of the answers so far have been of any use. I'm doing this on my own.
I have already gone through the FBI, filed and all. I don’t want lose any more money on this issue by hiring a lawyer for $$$ an hour. Also, it is not impossible to gain access to someone's email account; you just have to get a court order to do it. What I'm seeking is information regarding this type of case, any and all legal advice would be greatly appreciated.

Federal inmate has information regarding serious stock fraud. Wants to use information to negotiate house arrest until information is corroborated and then negotiate release and immunity. Should they go directly to FBI? What steps should they take to ensure successful negotiation. What pitfalls are there that they should be aware of before deciding to go this route?

Thank you so much!