“A gambling problem can negatively affect an individual’s home life, financial status, career, education, social relationships, and physical and emotional health.” These words can be found on the helpline page of The Florida Council on Compulsive Gambling’s website. Their mission statement demonstrates that they’re “committed to increasing public awareness about…
Last month’s blog post settled with the FBI’s arrests of William Foster, Ashleigh Holloway and Hanah Chan. Foster had been charged with an array of sex trafficking charges while Holloway and Chan had soon after surrendered to federal authorities and now face similar charges. Foster’s complete indictment which was unsealed…
Florida has local human trafficking task forces in each of its sixty-seven counties. The crime’s statistics have been precipitous; having a very steep ascent year after year. Over the past seven years total cases have risen from a reported 931 contacts in 2012 to 1885 ending 2018; more than double.…
Bank robbery has been a federal crime in the United States since 1934. This includes National banks, state member banks, savings and loans, credit unions, armored cars and related institutions that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC). It was in the 1930’s when the John Dillinger gang…
Our country is divided; with our politics reaching a level of intense polarization which most likely hasn’t been seen since the American Civil War. One day after the release of the Mueller report, that’s primary focus was to deliberate on Russia’s seemingly successful interference of the 2016 presidential election; and…
After a two-week trial in federal court in the Southern District of Florida a well-known and highly respected South Florida attorney faces decades in prison after being convicted of multiple counts of federal crimes. James M. Schneider, who is 77 years old, is now awaiting sentencing for the crimes he…
Updating an article that was posted on this blog in mid-February, a North Lauderdale woman was sentenced to forty-one months in federal prison after the judge in the case determined that a tougher punishment for the crimes she committed was warranted. Normally, in cases such as these some type of…
A North Lauderdale woman was jailed last month after a jury found her guilty of ninety counts of stealing federal funds. The jury deliberated for approximately thirty minutes before finding her guilty of all charges in Fort Lauderdale federal court. Her sentencing hearing is set for April 5, 2018 when…
It was the height of the Holiday shopping season last month, when a middle aged woman wearing sweat pants and a dark colored hat walked into a bank and simply handed a teller a note which read “This is a robbery. Smile & act naturally”. She also told the teller…
Many people are arrested by police when suspicions are raised in cases when they’re pulled over for simple traffic stops. This also frequently happens when law enforcement is given access to people’s homes for indeterminate reasons, such as a 911 call for a domestic argument that wasn’t actually serious and…