Category Archives: White Collar Crimes
Forgery Of Signatures Of Celebrities
Everyone knows someone who likes to exaggerate their connections with celebrities. Perhaps your coworker is from Upper Darby, and he tells everyone that he is BFFs with Tina Fey, but what he actually means is that he once saw someone who looked a lot like her in a supermarket. Maybe your math teacher is… Read More »
Woman Accused Of Working At Pennsylvania Nursing Homes Under False Identities
In the nursing profession, your services will always be in demand, but it is one of the lines of work that has a high rate of burnout. Nurses and certified nursing assistants often cope with long commutes and no-win working conditions where, thanks to understaffing, nothing they do can be good enough for their… Read More »
Money Laundering Conspiracy Or Just Doing Your Job?
A day in the life of a local business owner is a series of small frustrations and small victories. Sure, your elementary school-aged children are impressed by the stack of banknotes in your wallet and by the amount you write on the deposit slip when they ride with you to the bank in the… Read More »
Cumberland County Man Gets Fraud Charges For Ghosting Client Who Paid Him To Replace Heat Pump
The gig economy is frustrating for people who depend on it as their main source of income. Whether you can pay your bills this month depends on whether enough customers want the services you are providing. If the weather is too pleasant, people might decide to walk instead of taking Uber, causing you to… Read More »
BIN Attacks And Credit Card Fraud In Pennsylvania
Credit card fraud comes in many different forms. Some people carry devices that skim credit cards, while others memorize card numbers or photograph people’s card information with their smartphones while collecting payments at work. Most cases of credit card fraud begin with someone stealing a person’s credit card information, usually including the credit card… Read More »
ATM Skimming
Consumers are aware of the risk of theft of financial information from websites. Many of us think twice before entering our credit card number in an online payment form; we increasingly prefer to store the information in our phones and then let our phones decide which vendors to trust. Financial crime can occur at… Read More »
Pittsburgh Entrepreneur Pleads Guilty To Bankruptcy Fraud
Accurate calculations, especially in the service of predictions, can help you be successful in business, but so can being vague about numbers and their significance in the right situations. Business owners get away with fuzzy accounting on a regular basis; most of the time, no one finds out until there is a tax audit… Read More »
Pennsylvania Man Charged With Fraud For Selling Forgeries Of Renaissance Era Printing Blocks
If a museum discovered that a painting it had been displaying for decades was not, as it claimed to be, the work of a famous artist who lived centuries ago, but rather a more recent forgery, this would be front page news. Lots of people buy artwork, not for museums, but for their own… Read More »
Contractor Faces Home Improvement Fraud Charges After Abandoning Unfinished Project
Some corporate jobs come with a windfall of perks, from free food leftover from catered events to use of an employer-provided car or furnished apartment. When you operate a very small business, the line between business and personal expenses is less than clear. At tax time, you open the calculator app on your phone… Read More »
Gibsonia Man Faces Charges For Insider Trading
Most of the time, cheating goes unpunished. When children complain to parents and teachers that other kids are cheating at playground games, the most sympathetic response they can expect to get is, “It’s only a game.” Sometimes, it seems like the adults are more annoyed by the kids who complain than the kids who… Read More »
