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If you have been charged with bank fraud, you may be feeling somewhat overwhelmed — after all, despite the fact that bank fraud is defined as a white collar crime, conviction carries significant criminal and civil penalties.  In fact, the federal bank fraud statute outlines penalties of up to $1M in fines and up to 30 years imprisonment.  Given the high-stakes nature of such litigation, it’s important that you get in touch with a team of qualified criminal defense attorneys as soon as possible. Here at Binnall Law Group, PLLC, our attorneys understand the unique texture of white collar criminal […]

If you’re involved in a commercial dispute with one or more parties, you may be wondering about the potential damages recoverable for “unjust enrichment” and what it actually means for your case. What is unjust enrichment? Stated simply, unjust enrichment is a claim that is based on the idea that the defendant — the breaching party — has somehow gained an advantage by virtue of their conduct, and that this has led to a fundamentally unfair situation.  If the court were to allow the defendant to keep this advantage (usually in the form of obtained assets, financial or otherwise), then […]

If anyone wondered which white-collar crime issues would attract special Department of Justice interest during the Trump administration, they now have a tentative answer. In July 2017, 412 individuals in 41 different parts of the country were charged with $1.3-billion worth of health care fraud schemes involving false billings to Medicare and Medicaid, as well as overprescribing opioids and other dangerous narcotics. In a parallel action undertaken at the same time, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched suspension actions against 295 individual providers including doctors, nurses and pharmacists. The medical profession, hospitals and pharmacies, and the pharmaceutical […]

Title IX is a federal law dating back to 1972 that prohibits discrimination based on gender in providing access to facilities and programs at schools that receive funding from Washington. It also bans all forms of sexual violence, mandating an investigation that can lead to suspension or expulsion from school, and even the possibility of criminal charges being brought by police. The process for handling a Title IX violation varies from one school to another because they are not a criminal proceeding. However, when an allegation is made, schools and other education programs must launch an “independent investigation” into whether […]