A quick scan of recent headlines will show readers how seriously federal and state authorities are cracking down on Medicare fraud in Louisiana and throughout the country. In fact, agents with the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, FBI and Health and Human Services recently...
Complex Civil Litigation, Criminal Defense & Insurance Claims
Year: 2012
Internet crime charges for 2 East Baton Rouge men
Internet crimes are taken very seriously in Louisiana, and police officers increasingly use tricky methods to gather evidence and charge people with crimes. Many of the defendants in these cases never would have imagined facing the charges leveled against them, and...
Man accused of bilking Baton Rouge residents in mail fraud
Sometimes people try to get a business going with investors' money, but the business just doesn't work out, That doesn't mean, however, that criminal charges are the appropriate course of action. Still, people do end up accused of white collar crimes, requiring a...
Mandeville baseball coach sentenced in Ponzi scheme
Being convicted of a white collar crime can have serious consequences the defendant likely never imagined. Recently, a youth baseball coach in Louisiana pleaded guilty to securities fraud, money laundering and felony theft after being accused of running a Ponzi...
18 arrested in Louisiana on drug trafficking charges
Being charged with a drug crime is intimidating enough, but when state and federal authorities work together to compile evidence over a lengthy period of time, the person charged with a crime will need an especially strong criminal defense. That is the case for 18...
Infamous O.J. Simpson murder glove allegedly compromised
It's been almost 17 years since former football great O.J. Simpson was tried for murder, and now one of the prosecutors claims that the "bloody glove" was deliberately tampered with by Simpson's defense team. The glove was considered one of the most important pieces...
Too much evidence – case dismissed
Most of the time prosecutors are worried that they don't have enough evidence to convict. An alleged fugitive drug dealer had so much evidence stacked up against him that federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss the case because they can't afford to store it any...
Inmate prevails in unfair jury battle
It took nearly a quarter-century of legal wrangling, but a California death row inmate convinced a federal appeals court that a racially biased jury convicted him or murder back in 1989. At the original trial, the inmate's attorney challenged the jury selection...