Federal Corporate Fraud Defense Attorney New York City
New York City Federal Corporate Fraud Attorneys
Corporate fraud is a broad term in federal criminal law that encompasses numerous financial fraud actions by business entities against the government as well as fraudulent act committed by individual corporate officers against business entities.
New York City corporate fraud attorneys of Joseph Potashnik and Associates PLLCÂ bring a wealth of experience advising individuals and business clients on matters involving preventive corporate compliance and defending clients investigated for corporate fraud.
Most corporate fraud cases are investigated by a variety of federal agencies that make up the President’s Corporate Fraud Task Force established by President Bush in 2002, including the FBI, the IRS, U.S. Department of Labor, SEC, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and other federal agencies and U.S. Attorneys Offices, including U.S. Attorney Offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York that cover the entire New York City metropolitan area.
Our New York City federal corporate fraud lawyers represent corporate fraud clients investigated for securities and commodities fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, bribery, embezzlement, and other financial violations. Some examples activities considered corporate fraud are:
- Falsification of corporate financial information
- Making fraudulent accounting entries in order to artificially inflate revenue, exaggerate assets, earnings, and profits, or hiding and masking liabilities and losses
- Insider illegal self-dealing such as trading, kickbacks, misuse of corporate property
- Tax violations
- Mutual funds or hedge funds fraud
- Perjury and conspiracy
When you are the target of a federal corporate fraud investigation, you cannot afford to rely on an inexperienced attorney. Our veteran New York federal white collar attorneys Lawrence Schoenbach and Sam Schmidt have represented numerous corporate fraud defendants for three decades. Besides experience, we bring a group of talented investigators, experts, and forensic accountants to work on most corporate fraud cases.
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