The U.S. government spends over $4 trillion each year. Much of that spending is earmarked for private contractors and suppliers. The government has 2.7 million contracts with private companies. Congress has said that this spending should be spent on U.S. suppliers wherever possible. Beginning with the Buy American Act during the Great Depression (1933) and […]

Structured CD products remind us of the Eagles’ number one hit, Hotel California. There is a line in that song that says, “You can check in anytime you want but you can never leave.” A structured CD has many similarities. They are easy to buy but there isn’t always a market when you go to […]

It’s been awhile since we posted about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Last year a federal appeals court in Washington DC struck down a critical component of the law and since then Congress has been in gridlock. Everyone but the telemarketers agree the law needs to be fixed but politics in Washington these days […]

Two days ago we wrote about the Memorandum of Understanding between HUD and the Department of Justice. Although facially the MOU passes the straight face test, anyone with knowledge of the public statements by HUD Secretary Carson and the recent spate of dismissals sought by the Justice Department in False Claims Act cases knows there […]

We prosecute insurance fraud cases where the insurance company has defraud its policy holder. (We never represent big insurance companies.) Many times, however, a policy holder defrauds the insurance carrier. Usually these are low level scams… a motorist who claims he was in an accident when really the damage he wants fixed is old or […]

The Panama Papers, a 2016 data leak that shook the world by revealing what the rich and powerful do in secret and how they hide their money, has hit the big screen with the Netflix film The Laundromat. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, The Laundromat is a dark comedy that explains the harsh realities of global finances. Those […]