No one wants to receive a subpoena. However, receiving one isn’t typically as dramatic as it’s made to appear on television. Unless you’ve been attempting to evade a subpoena (which is an unwise, essentially pointless thing to do), the person who serves it isn’t...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and specifically its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), is responsible for overseeing and enforcing compliance with the Privacy and Security Rules that are part of HIPAA. Anyone who has a complaint about...
The government takes all forms of financial institution fraud quite seriously. One of the illegal actions that falls into this category is mortgage fraud. While it can take several forms, at its core it involves misrepresenting financial records or omitting facts in...
In many industries, including the financial, banking, and healthcare industries, ensuring that the files being held are secure is important. There are specific regulations that apply to these industries, so there’s no room for being lax in compliance. One way that...
Learning that your company has come under the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can be understandably fear-inducing. You may not even understand how your company drew the attention of the SEC in the first place. But now is not a time for...
There are many different ways to launder money when you are reaping the financial rewards of an illegal enterprise. One that has become increasingly popular in the cyber age is to recruit people — associates, friends and even strangers targeted on the internet — to...
White collar crime is something that happens at both the corporate level and the individual level, and the Department of Justice addresses both. However, many of the new rules that they have introduced apply to corporations, and they may impact the way that the DOJ...
Most people assume that finding fingerprints at the scene is a sure-fire way to determine who committed a specific crime. You see this all the time in detective shows. The detective finds prints at the scene, and everyone involved acts as if they've solved the case. ...
Successful construction projects can require a significant investment of time, resources, and money. Often, projects reach completion with little cause for concern. However, with tight budgets and deadlines as well as numerous parties involved, the potential for...
In the event of past corporate malfeasances, a corporation may require oversight as they move on in the future. The commission of such oversights typically lies with corporate monitors. Although individuals might have heard the term corporate monitorship before, or...