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American people convicted of tax crimes (247 P) Pages in category "American white-collar criminals" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total.
“This sub-group is referred to as red-collar criminals because they straddle both the white-collar crime arena and, eventually, the violent crime arena. In circumstances where there is the threat of detection, red-collar criminals commit brutal acts of violence to silence the people who have detected their fraud and to prevent further ...
The case alleged that Holmes and Balwani perpetrated multi-million dollar wire-fraud schemes against investors and patients. They had separate jury trials. A five-person team from the white-collar crime litigation firm Williams & Connolly defended Holmes. [2] The case began on August 31, 2021, when a jury of Santa Clara County residents was ...
Convicted felon Bernard Madoff cast blame on some of the banks and hedge funds he dealt with as "complicit" in his multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme, noting they turned a blind eye to his ...
Black v. United States, 561 U.S. 465 (2010), is a white-collar criminal law case decided by the United States Supreme Court dealing with businessman Conrad Black's fraud trial. Along with two companion cases—Skilling v. United States and Weyhrauch v. United States—it dealt with the honest services provision, 18 U.S.C. § 1346.
His sentence was believed to be the longest prison term ever imposed in a U.S. federal court and the longest ever for white-collar crime. [5] [4] [6] Weiss fled the country during jury deliberations in October 1999, and was extradited from Austria in 2002. His sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on January 19, 2021. Weiss was ...
A 21-year term would be unusually long for a U.S. white-collar crime case.
Ruffo is an American former business executive, white-collar criminal and confidence man, who in 1998 was convicted in a scheme to defraud many US and foreign banking institutions of over US$350 million: one of the most significant cases of bank fraud in US history. [159]