By Andrea L. Moseley Small businesses have been struggling for survival throughout the pandemic. As if that was not hard enough, small business executives have had to hang on with both hands to avoid being thrown off the pendulating landscape of pandemic relief loan...
By Sara Kropf We just finished watching HBO’s The Undoing. Pandemic or not, it’s great television. I'll try not include any plot spoilers in this post, but if you really don’t want to know anything about the show, then you probably want to stop reading now. The show...
By Andrea Moseley Since late Spring, I have been tracking emerging trends in COVID-19 related fraud. In May, DoJ charged the first individuals in the nation with fraudulently seeking CARES Act SBA Paycheck Protection Loans. As expected, DoJ's well-funded appetite for...
By: Sara Kropf I have a Gmail account for personal use. You likely do too. And nearly every one of my clients has one. In fact, Google owns about 43% of the email market. Gmail has about 1.8 billion users and about 306 billion emails are sent and received daily in...
By Andrea L. Moseley Just before I took a blogging detour into the world of lawyer/tennis players, I promised to post a straightforward analysis of the certifications within Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) applications. Now...
By: Sara Kropf There has been a lot of news lately about grand jury subpoenas. It’s not often you see a sitting President filing multiple motions seeking to prevent his accountant from producing copies of his tax records. These are certainly unusual times. So, what...
By Sara Kropf The Department of Justice has embrace electronic surveillance in white-collar criminal cases. Search warrants to ISPs or phone companies for emails and text messages, or forensic analyses of a client’s electronic devices are the norm. I tell clients that...
By Sara Kropf There are a few fundamental constitutional rights for a criminal defendant. The right to a lawyer. The right to confront witnesses. The right not to incriminate yourself. And the right to a jury trial. One disappointing part of law school was learning...
By Andrea L. Moseley There are very few sui generis innovators when it comes to alleged criminal schemes. Steve Bannon may be a headliner but he is no pioneer as he becomes the new government flagship for alleged donor fraud. In recent times, Southern District of New...
By Andrea L. Moseley Over the last few months, I have provided insight into how individuals and small businesses can mitigate risk related to pandemic fund fraud allegations. In this article, I will include an enhanced reference guide with five simple tips on how to...