The term "white collar crime" commonly refers to a wide variety of unlawful activity, including embezzlement, tax fraud and insider trading. What these crimes have in common is their setting in the workplace, or as part of a person's occupation. The reference...
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Year: 2014
Police arrest 8 in crackdown on growing heroin trade in Louisiana
Over the past few years, the authorities in Louisiana and across the nation have been increasingly concerned about an apparent rise in the trade of heroin. Police have said that they are seeing an increase in use of the opiate drug in the New Orleans metro area...
Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles employee charged with theft
White collar crime is a loosely defined category that includes embezzlement, tax fraud, insider trading and other sophisticated offenses. Because these crimes tend to occur in the workplace or be related to one's occupation, Louisiana residents can find it very...
Ex-football coach faces charges in alleged Ponzi scheme
Louisiana loves its college football coaches. Much of the South is the same way. In a case under way in federal court, prosecutors accuse a former college football coach of exploiting that popularity to run an illegal $80 million Ponzi scheme. However, his attorney...
Anti-shredding law used against man in case of missing fish
Louisiana residents may know the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which was passed into law in 2002 after the scandals involving falsified accounting at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. Among other things, the law was designed to stamp out wrongful corporate practices...
Search leads to drug arrests for two in Louisiana
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects Louisiana residents from "unreasonable" search and seizure, but courts tend to give police a lot of leeway in terms of what kinds of searches count as reasonable. The issue of unreasonable search comes up...
Louisiana construction firm faces federal mail fraud charges
Louisiana residents who are accused of crimes under state law will usually find themselves up against prosecutors with much greater resources than the defendants they prosecute. Those facing charges in federal court may feel even more outmatched, as they face...
Louisiana state agency official charged with federal fraud
Louisiana residents who are accused of white collar crimes, such as fraud, embezzlement and insider trading, could find their professional lives in serious jeopardy. These crimes typically occur in the workplace, and therefore employers take the allegations very...
Two LSU students face felony video voyeurism charges
Many Louisiana residents who spend a lot of time on social media may feel that the boundaries have been blurred between what is personal and what is fodder for sharing online. Sometimes they may even violate someone else's privacy in the process of sharing...
Baton Rouge police arrest six in synthetic marijuana crackdown
Louisiana authorities have been cracking down on so-called synthetic marijuana. Use of these products is prohibited in the state, where they are considered Schedule I controlled substances and health officials have warned the public to stay away from them after...