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Fraud, A Blemmish on the White Collar of America

By Steven Rodriguez

Edwin H. Sutherland, who is one of the most influential criminologists of the first half of the twentieth century defined white collar crime as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation.” According to the IRS website, fraud on the corporate level, encompasses violations of the Internal Revenue Code (meaning mostly taxes) and related statues committed by large, publicly or privately traded corporation and/or by the senior executives.  There are incredibly strict laws governing such crimes, and high profile cases such as Wesley Snipes recent tax evasion case have grown in scope of late. Just this week, a French Bank, Societe Generale, lost $7.1 Billion from fraud, all to one trader...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on January 31, 2008 (boomark / email).