Law Offices of Laurence J. Sass

In addition to his business law practice, Larry Sass also represents clients in white collar crime cases. Within criminal law, white collar attorneys handle matters pertaining specifically to nonviolent crimes committed for financial reward. As a result, Larry is an expert in dealing with everything from tax evasion to insider trading to embezzlement and other fraudulent business scams. If you are an individual or corporation involved in or have questions about a financial matter involving a crime, contact the Law Offices of Laurence J. Sass for expert advice.

So what is white collar crime? This term embodies a multitude of nonviolent crimes, usually in respect to financial gain from fraud, scams, or other forms of deceit. Below is a list of white collar crimes that Attorney Larry Sass can help you with:

• Financial Crimes
  • This term refers to all crimes committed either by an individual or a group of people that involves taking money or property that someone else owns in order to obtain financial or professional gain. Some examples of financial crimes include fraud, cyber crime, money laundering, terrorist financing, and bribery. 
• Tax Evasion
  • Tax evasion is the illegal under-payment or non-payment of taxes, often by purposely making a false declaration or no declaration to tax authorities.  
• Insider Trading
  • This refers to the trading of a company’s securities by people with access to confidential material and other non-public information regarding the company. 
• Embezzlement
  • Embezzlement is the theft of funds that are placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer. This is most often seen in the form of misappropriation of money. Embezzlement happens regardless of whether the defendant decided to keep the personal property or if they decided to transfer it to a third property.
• Fraud
  • Fraud, which is pretty generalized term, includes any wrongful deception intended to cause financial or personal gain. Some main examples of fraud include asset misappropriation, bribery and corruption, and financial statement deception. 
• Insurance Fraud
  • Insurance fraud happens when a policyholder exaggerates or makes false claims in order to get insurance money. Some example of insurance fraud include staged accidents, intentional damage claims, false or inflated theft repair claim, or rate evasion. 
• Scheme to Defraud
  • This is a hard tern to precisely defined, but in simple terms, a scheme or artifice to defraud is when someone comes up with a plan to deprive another of the intangible right to honest services. Obtaining money or property from someone under fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises is considered a scheme to defraud.
• Larceny
  • Larceny refers to the theft of personal property. This includes crimes such as theft of bicycles, motor vehicle parts and accessories, shoplifting, pick-pocketing, and the stealing of anything that is not taken by force or with violence. 
• Possession of Stolen Property
  • This term is pretty self explanatory- a person is guilty of this if they knowingly receive and/or bring movable property into a different state that they know or believe to belong to someone else. 
• Forgery
  • Forgery is a criminal act where someone either falsifies or fabricates art, documents, writing, or other objects with the intention to deceive someone else. 
• Falsifying Business Records
  • You can be found to be criminally liable if you cause or create a false business record, prevent truthful statements from being made in a business record, or if you alter and/or destroy a truthful statement in a business record, all with the intent to defraud. 
• False Instruments
  • A person is guilty of offering a false instrument for filing when they offer or present it to a public office or public servant with full knowledge that the written instrument contains either a false statement or false information. 
• Identity Theft
  • Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information in order to commit fraud. There are many different forms of identity theft, including but not limited to: financial identity theft, tax identity theft, and medical identity theft.
• Bribery
  • A bribery refers to the giving, offering, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a way of influencing the actions of a person holding a legal or public duty. 
• Bribe Receiving
  • Bribery constitutes a crime for not only the briber, but the recipient as well. Both can be criminally charged under the law.  
• Unlawful Gratuities
  • A public servant is guilty of receiving unlawful gratuities when they solicit, agree, or accept any benefit for having been a part of official conduct that they were either authorized or required to perform for which they were not entitled to any special or additional compensation. 
• Conspiracy
  • In terms of the law, conspiracy is an agreement between two or more individuals to commit an illegal act, including overt intent to achieve the illegal agreement’s goal. 
• Computer Crimes
  • Also known as cyber crime, this criminal act is defined by the use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal pursuits, such as stealing identities, owning and distributing child pornography, or even just violating privacy. 
• Corruption
  • This is a form of dishonesty which is committed by a person or organization in an entrusted position of authority, in order to gain illicit benefits or abuse power for personal gain. The most common types of corruption include grand versus petty corruption, supply versus demand corruption, public versus private corruption, and conventional versus unconventional corruption. 
• Misconduct
  • Misconduct is a term used in both criminal and civil cases and refers to actions committed by an individual that are wrongful, improper, or unlawful with indifference or disregard to the consequences of these actions. 
• Perjury
  • A person is found guilty of committing perjury when they knowingly and intentionally lie about a specific issue. Some examples of perjury include false statements, perjury in judicial proceedings, and subornation of perjury.