Fraud

The findings of a report recently released by the Fair Trade Commission is likely not that surprisingly to Tampa readers: the state of Florida, far and away, has the highest number of fraud and identity theft complaints per capita when compared to other states. The...

Readers may or may not be familiar with Medicare Advantage plans, which are health insurance plans offered by private companies contracting with Medicare for coverage of Medicare benefits. These plans cover a wide variety of services, including hospital care, nursing...

In our previous post, we began speaking about a recent United States Supreme Court decision which determined that an officer’s reasonable misunderstanding of the law does not destroy probable cause. In the case which gave rise to that decision, the issue came up...

Fraud is, generally speaking, not an area that Florida is generally known to have under control. To take just one example, recent data released by LexisNexis Risk Solutions shows that Florida has had the highest incidence of mortgage fraud in the nation for five...

A Florida woman who is currently serving a 21-year sentence for using other taxpayers’ identities to file false tax returns may be able to have her sentence reduced after a successful appeal of her case. The reason for the appeal in her case was that the judge...

Back in October, we wrote about the tax fraud case of former “Jersey Shore” star Mike Sorrentino. As we noted, Sorrentino and his brother have been charged with failing to report business and personal income on tax returns between 2010 and 2012, as well as...

For public figures, particularly those involved in politics and political advocacy, tax blunders can be a disruptive thing to endure. For civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton, tax troubles recently became a sore subject once again when the New York Times published...

Raoul Weil, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Wealth Management & Business Banking, received good news last week when he was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit tax fraud. Those charges were connected to accusations that the company was...

Last month, Mike Sorrentino—formerly “The Situation” on the reality series Jersey Shore—pleaded not guilty to charges of tax evasion allegedly involving $8.9 million between 2010 and 2012. Sorrentino, along with his brother Marc, were...

Health care fraud can come in a variety of forms and can involve a variety of types of medical practitioners and workers, but it can also involve more unusual situations where there is no medical worker at all. A case out of Tampa is just such a case, involving as it...