If you’re facing a DUI, you probably know that you need a defense against the criminal charges. If you don’t defend yourself, you could face significant financial penalties, time in jail and other punishments. What you may not realize is that you could end up facing civil penalties, too. Those penalties are completely separate from…
The act of taking “dirty” money — money that’s been obtained illegally — and trying to “clean it” so that it appears to be the proceeds of legitimate investments or legitimate income is called money laundering. It’s illegal, even if you aren’t involved in the illegal transactions that produced those funds. When money laundering occurs,…