white collar criminals

President Donald Trump has elevated a little-known lawyer with scarce experience in white-collar criminal defense to a leading role on his legal team in the Russia investigation. The lawyer, Andrew Ekonomou, has a doctorate in medieval history and has significant experience fighting religious freedom ...

White collar criminals often share certain personality traits that make them experts at conning their victims, who often have a hard time seeing their victimizer as a bad person, according to a FBI special agent ... French added that investigating a white collar criminal case can easily take at least three years.

Her mission was twofold: to raise awareness of the stigma and financial ruin facing the families of white-collar criminals, and to help guide women through their trauma and legal morass. She wishes she had something like this when she was going through her ordeal. As she quickly discovered, the wives of ...

This is an unfortunate reality, said Eugene Soltes, an associate professor at Harvard Business School and the author of “Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of a White-Collar Criminal,” in an email. All too often “a spouse — like their partner — will engage in motivated reasoning and miss the warnings signs that ...

Surprisingly little is understood about the choices that lead to white-collar criminals' downfall. What the author found was that white-collar criminals spend surprisingly little effort thinking about the consequences of their actions. “They seem to have reached their decisions to commit crimes with little thought ...

The city also has retained Mark Calloway, a former U.S. prosecutor who specializes in white collar criminal defense, McDonald said Wednesday. Calloway sat in during the closed session and introduced himself to the City Council, according to several people who attended the meeting. City Manager Doug ...

How are white-collar criminal cases different and more difficult from homicide and other, say, more traditional criminal cases? Crumb: White-collar cases in general are all about sentencing. In homicide, it's a whodunnit. It's usually pretty clear in white collar who did what. I love bank records. They're DNA.

This 2014 file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Shannon Egeland. (Multnomah County Sheriff via AP, file)This 2014 file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Shannon Egeland. (Multnomah County Sheriff via AP, file). (Newser) – A white-collar crook ...