Aggressive Criminal Defense Blog

  Welcome back to our two part series on common tax scams in Michigan. As fraud and financial  crime defense attorneys, we’ve helped a lot of people over the years who’ve been accused of financial crimes when in fact, all they did was make a mistake. However, we also know that there are numerous people […]

Every year the Internal Revenue Service releases their ‘dirty dozen’ list – a list of the 12 most pervasive tax scams that end up costing people a small fortune. Scams that are illegal in every state in the U.S., and can rob people of money they were counting on. Scams that, if you decide the […]

  In 2009, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office discovered 11,341 untested kits. They were sitting in boxes in a police storage warehouse, piled as high as the eye could see, gathering dust. No one remembered they were there. Nothing was being done about them. It was a terrible discovery, but it instigated a statewide drive […]

  If you’ve ever heard of the term ‘sugar daddy” (and we’ll wager that you have) then you can probably figure out what a ‘sugar baby’ is. Yes, that’s right – the younger member of a ‘sugar lifestyle’ arrangement is the sugar baby (usually a young girl in her 20s), while the sugar daddy is […]

  When most people hear the word ‘weapon’ they picture a gun, or possibly a knife. Maybe a baseball bat, or a pair of brass knuckles. What they don’t usually imagine is an ashtray, a beer bottle, a chair or even a car. And yet all of these things can be a weapon, when used […]

  In 2012, The United States Supreme Court ruled that handing down a life sentence to minor, no matter how serious their crime, was unconstitutional. Then, four years later in 2016, SCOTUS revisited the issue, and ruled that all ‘juvenile lifers’ – minors who’ve been given life sentences for the crimes they were convicted of […]

  Ask the average person what the crime of Indecent Exposure‘ is, and they’ll probably tell you it means ‘flashing’ someone. (This is the part where you envision a disheveled man in a trench coat, jumping out of a hedge in front of a woman and whipping his coat open to show that he’s wearing […]

Have you ever had your computer act up, perhaps freezing or crashing in the middle of important functions? Many people have. And what does one do, when your computer is on the fritz? Simple, you call in the experts. Whether it’s Best Buy’s Geek Squad, or your local equivalent tech gurus, the people you need […]

  Being a kid is hard these days. Children whose ages haven’t even hit double digits yet, can be subjected to some very serious forms of bullying. In addition, there are modern challenges that children face these days, like cyber bullying, that were never an issue for earlier generations. Kids are coping with stress and […]

Chances are, you’ve heard about the Larry Nassar case in Ingham County and his second case in Eaton County. Maybe you also heard about his federal kiddie porn conviction. In fact, it would be hard to miss it, with the related MSU scandal, the new legislation inspired by Nassar’s charges, and the sensational sentencing hearing […]