Category Archives: Fraud & Theft Crimes

Thanks for joining us here at The Kronzek Firm again for this series on fraud crimes in Michigan. So far we have discussed credit card fraud and embezzlement, and what those charges mean here in the Great Lakes state. Moving on we are going to unpack the subject of tax evasion for you, and take […]

  Welcome back, and thanks for joining us here at The Kronzek Firm for a discussion about fraud crimes in Michigan. In our introductory article we broke down credit card fraud for our readers. We discussed what it involved, what a prosecutor would have to prove in order to secure a criminal conviction, and what […]

  The term “Fraud Crimes” refers to a wide variety of criminal activity, all of which involve some type of fraud. This could refer to credit card fraud, health insurance fraud, check fraud, retail fraud and insurance fraud, to name but a few. Because the crimes themselves are varied, and the details change depending on […]

  You wouldn’t hand your credit card over to a stranger would you? Of course not! But wait….. you might have already done exactly that, and you just didn’t know about it. In other words, you may have been skimmed! Skimming devices, which are attached by criminals to ATMs and gas pumps, “skim” your credit […]

56-year-old Bashar Imam is a well-known investor and developer in the Troy area. He is also a respected member of Detroit’s Syrian immigrant community. Ask people in his community to describe him, and they would most likely use words like ‘entrepreneur’, ‘hard worker’ and ‘prosperous businessman.’ And while those may all be true, they are […]

  48-year-old Christine Reiss, the ex-wife of former Greenville, MI police chief Mark Reiss, was recently found guilty of health care fraud. According to Montcalm County court records, the jury found her guilty of continuing to use her ex husband’s health care, even after the pair was divorced.   The charges have not only affected […]

  Ask anyone about the hippocratic oath, and most people will parrot back the phrase, “Do no harm.” However, while it may come as a surprise to you, this phrase doesn’t actually appear anywhere in the Hippocratic oath. In addition, the oath itself is not actually required for a doctor to practice medicine. Some hospitals […]

After the Courser/Gamrat sex scandal that blazed through the Michigan media for months, the debacle where State senator Virgil Smith shot at his ex-wife’s car, and the business with both the Newaygo County Commissioner and the Bay City Commissioner who faced charges for larceny and destruction of property, Michigan politics seems to have had a […]

Two men from Michigan have been accused of stealing thousands of pieces of mail from people in three southwestern counties, in order to find cash, checks and money orders. Federal documents allege that the pair were operating as a teacher and understudy, with one man teaching the other how to successfully steal mail, and what […]

Horace Junior Davis, a 65-year-old doctor practicing in the Albion and Jackson areas, has been indicted on numerous charges by a grand jury from the United States District Court, Western District. The indictment was originally filed on March 9th, but was kept sealed under court order until June 3rd.   Davis is accused of Unlawfully […]