White Collar Crime

Compile two (2) white collar crime related articles which appear in the news media between September 1, 2017 and December 5, 2017. Make sure to include your sources!

Summarize the offense (for example: who is involved; what is the infraction; who is/are the victim(s), is it a criminal offense; a civil offense; how is the matter being addressed, by whom? what are the sanctions involved, if any? if the matter has not been resolved, how do you think it should be resolved? if it has been resolved, do you agree with how it was resolved? How is society affected by this offense)? Discuss your individual opinion regarding the case as it relates to white collar crime. Relate the crime to the characteristics of white collar crime and the offenders of white collar crime as we’ve discussed in class. ALL ARTICLES ARE TO COME FROM A NEWSPAPER IN YOUR LOCAL AREA AND FROM THE FOLLOWING STATES: NJ, PA, DE, NY, CT, MD, VA, and Washington DC. NO CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN FOR AN ARTICLE/CASE THAT WAS TAKEN FROM A NATIONAL WEBSITE (for example: FBI, ABA, SEC, National Whistleblower website, or any other national website) OR from the New York Times Book%Deal website, or from an opinion or editorial that talks about types of cases, or from a law firm blog or website. This assignment is looking for CASE SPECIFIC articles!

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In the published news articles “Chesterfield ‘credit consultant’ pleads guilty in $750,000 fraud case” in Rich Mond Times-Dispatch, a man who owns Premier Credit Consultants in Chesterfield County pleaded guilty to the two counts of wire fraud which he was charged with this year. He will face up to 40 years in prison.
In the lights of the information presented in the article, Timothy Scott Wenk who is 50 was prosecuted with 16 counts of wire fraud in September.

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