Posts Tagged fraud lawyer
How You Can Join The Anti Fraud Team And Get Paid Too!
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on February 4, 2012
by Joe Bird
You hear about it all too often. Your neighbors tell you about schemes they heard about run by “those guys” or unnamed friends to make lots of easy money. Sometimes it a boast at a party or social event about making millions by evading taxes or calling something it is not and just [...]
Health Care Fraudster Busted
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on February 3, 2012
by Brian Mahany
Health care fraud costs the government and taxpayers billions of dollars. It is anything but a victimless crime. Fraud means higher insurance premiums causing some people to go without medical care. Because the federal government funds much of health care, taxes also go up when Medicare money is used to pay false claims. [...]
The Bully Behind the Curtain
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on February 3, 2012
by Joe Bird
Like many of you, at Mahany & Ertl we routinely encounter bullies and trash talkers. So often in the world of fraud, those who protest and threaten the loudest are the biggest frauds and bullies. As in the Wizard of Oz, they just need a determined canine of modest proportions [...]
Zealous Legal Advocacy or Criminal Conspiracy?
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on January 29, 2012
by Brian Mahany
A recent Reuters article sheds light on how Sir Allen Stanford was able to avoid detection and arrest for well over a decade. When finally arrested in 2009, Stanford was believed to have presided over one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever - $7 billion in misappropriated funds. Unlike the Madoff case where much [...]
The Real Victim of Political Stalemate? The American Consumer
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on January 14, 2012
by Wassim Malas, JD, LLM
Despite the “I’m right and you’re wrong” rhetoric commonly heard in the political arena, most decisions by government officials probably lie somewhere between the two, at least when assessed from strictly objective principles. Richard Cordray’s appointment as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is no different. [...]
Priest Candidate Asked To Leave Seminary Over Allied Fraud Case
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on January 14, 2012
by Brian Mahany
By now, most of our readers know that our firm is co-counsel with the United States government in the largest federal false claims fraud case brought against the mortgage industry - Allied Home Mortgage and its owner, Jim Hodge. Every large case involves all kinds of unexpected twists, turns and collateral actions. Our [...]
Troubles In Paradise
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on January 6, 2012
by Brian Mahany
Aloha and greetings from Maui. We are here for a short family vacation - a few days to unwind, regroup and plan the new year. As I ate breakfast this morning I was struck by the headline in the local daily newspaper, The Maui News, “Heavy Surf Continues.” Life is a bit more [...]
Unregistered Broker Caught… Again
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on December 20, 2011
by Brian Mahany
The ink isn’t even dry on my last post about the SEC’s new initiative to ferret serial fraudsters and now a story from the Texas State Securities Board. Regulators in the lone star state say that William Byrne confessed to being an unregistered broker selling investments. Of course, the securities he was selling [...]
Investment Scam Rocks Notre Dame
Posted by admin in Legal Malpractice on December 17, 2011
by Brian Mahany
Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, a former Notre Dame football legend, may not be as well known as Penn State’s Joe Paterno but both men have brought discredit to their respective schools. Ruettiger just agreed to pay almost $400,000 to settle investment fraud allegations brought by the SEC.
Regulators say that Ruettiger defraud investors by artificially [...]
STRIPS or Stripped?
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery on December 7, 2011
By Brian Mahany
Pastor Tyrone L. Gilliam claims to be a man of God, a hip-hop promoter and a TV personality. He also claims that he operates a successful investment firm. Now he can add being under indictment to his resume. Gilliam is accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.
Investment fraud [...]
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