by Ashley Riser | May 28, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, criminal defense, criminal law, federal criminal defense, federal law, fraud, Fraud
This article was originally published in the May 14, 2020 issue of Law.com’s The Recorder, available here. Keith Middlebrook promised investors he was developing a cure to the coronavirus, and he claimed it was coming soon. He created a phony company, Quantum...
by Ashley Riser | Apr 3, 2020 | criminal defense, criminal law, criminal lawyer, DOJ, federal criminal defense, federal law, fraud, legal, securities fraud, white collar, white collar crime
On March 20, 2020, the Ninth Circuit ruled in United States v. Miller, 2020 WL 1317275 (9th Cir.) that wire fraud requires the intent to deceive and to cheat, i.e., to deprive a victim of money or property by means of deception, overruling United States v....