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Embezzlement and fraud are types of white collar crime. The crime of Embezzlement in San Diego County as a white collar charge is a financial crime. Embezzlement includes employee theft from a company, a church, a nonprofit, or anywhere in San Diego County that people have the opportunity to divert funds, usually repeatedly over time.Embezzlement is the taking of money &/or personal property to which one has been entrusted by an act of fraud or deceit. You want to be represented during any investigation &/or after an arrest or charge is filed by one of our highest rated San Diego Embezzlement Defense Attorneys.
In San Diego County, Embezzlement is committed by someone with access to cash, checks, or the company bank account or accounting system. as your personal San Diego Embezzlement Attorneys, we know that this allegation, investigation, arrest or crime most commonly takes place during one's employment and typically by a bookkeeper or accountant, manager or supervisor, or an executive that is in a position of trust in a San Diego County business or company. Because Embezzlement crimes can involve incareration in the San Diego County Jail or incarceration and serious time in state prison as well as restitution and monetary fines, you need legal assistance from highly experienced San Diego Embezzlement Crime Defense Lawyers.
Pursuant to Penal Code section 487, embezzlement can be charged as grand theft if the total amount involved is $400 or more in a period of 12 months. If you are accused, investigated for or charged with embezzlement, call for a free consultation with our Managing Attorney at the highest rated and top San Diego Embezzlement Defense Attorneys to protect your rights, obtain effective legal counsel and to develop a winning defense. As your personal San Diego Embezzlement Defense Lawyers, we will fight for you whether you have been charged with a misdemeanor or felony.
If you are being investigated, accused, arrested &/or have been charged with the crime of embezzlement in San Diego County, call Spital and Associates at 619.583.0350 and speak to our Managing Attorney to obtain aggressive and experienced services of our San Diego Embezzlement Attorneys.
Fraud. This is a financial crime that involves deception, or what the victim of fraud thought of as deception. Individual business professionals in San Diego County can be charged with fraud, or a company could be charged.
When felony criminal charges are brought in San Diego embezzlement and San Diego fraud cases, especially if large amounts of money are involved, there may be extensive police investigation prior to an arrest. An employee or an employer may have an idea that they are being investigated.
If you think you are being investigated for embezzlement, fraud, false billing, over-billing, financial discrepancies, accounting problems, financial misrepresentation, or financial wrongdoing, contact our top San Diego Fraud Defense Attorneys and highesdt rated San Diego Fraud Defense Lawyers now.
Fraud cases can involve San Diego credit card fraud, insurance fraud, internet fraud, health care fraud, mail fraud, welfare fraud, real estate, check fraud and senior fraud (elder San Diego financial abuse), to name a few.
If you are being investigated, accused, arrested &/or have been charged with fraud in San Diego County, whether insurance fraud, mortgage fraud, real estate fraud, credit card fraud, or any other variety of criminal fraud, call our Managing Attorney, Sam Spital at 619.583.0350 for a free consultation to obtain aggressive and legal advice from our San Diego Fraud Defense Lawyers.
We are here to provide effective and experienced services as your San Diego Fraud Defense Attorneys.
MITIGATING FACTORS:
Our role as your skilled, experienced and effective San Diego Embezzlement Attorneys, San Diego Fraud Lawyers and San Diego Fraud Defense Attorneys is to present a successful defense as well as to establish all of the facts in mitigation, such as the following and, of course, more:
•· Actual or potential harm to the public;
•· Prior overall criminal record, if any;
•· Level of compliance with sentence and terms of probation;
•· Prior arrests of record;
•· Number and/or variety of current Fraud violations or charges (counts) in San Diego County;
•· Nature and severity of the Fraud offenses or Fraud crimes under consideration, whether insurance fraud, check fraud, mortgage fraud, real estate fraud, welfare fraud, mail fraud or credit card fraud;
•· Rehabilitation and remorse;
•· Time passed since the underlying fraudulent act and fraud offense, whether mail fraud, real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, check fraud, credit card fraud, insurance fraud or welfare fraud;
•· The degree of financial benefit to the defendant;
•· Whether the fraudulent conduct demonstrated cruelty;
•· Whether the defendant was suffering from a mental or physical condition that significantly reduced culpability for the fraud crime, welfare fraud, mortgage fraud, real estate, check fraud, mail fraud, credit card fraud or insurance fraud in San Diego County;
•· Whether the defendant is ineligible for probation;
•· Whether the defendant made restitution to the victim of criminal fraud in San Diego;
•· Whether the fraud crime involved violence, bodily harm, threat of bodily harm, or other acts disclosing a degree of cruelty, viciousness &/or callousness;
•· The defendant was not armed with or used a weapon at the time of the commission of the San Diego fraud crime;
•· The defendant did not induce others to participate in the commission of the fraud crime or occupied a position of leadership or dominance of other participants in its commission;
•· The defendant did not induce a minor to commit or assist in the commission of the fraud crime;
•· The defendant was not convicted of other crimes for which consecutive sentences could have been imposed but for which concurrent sentences are being imposed.
•· The manner in which the fraud crime, mortgage fraud, check fraud, insurance fraud, health fraud, welfare fraud, mail fraud or real estate fraud was carried out does not indicate planning, sophistication, or professionalism;
•· The fraud crime did not involve an attempted or actual taking or damage of great monetary value;
•· The degree to which the defendant took advantage of a position of trust or confidence to commit the fraud offense;
•· The defendant has not engaged in violent conduct which indicates a serious danger to society;
•· The defendant has not served a prior prison term;
•· The defendant was not on probation or parole when the San Diego fraud crime, mortgage fraud, real estate fraud, welfare fraud, health care fraud, mail fraud, insurance fraud or credit card fraud was committed
CONSEQUENCES OF A CRIME
- County jail or state prison incarceration
- A permanent criminal record
- Significant fines
- Probation or Parole
- Mandatory anger management courses
- Losing your right to own a deadly weapon
- Unable to obtain &/or difficulty with employment
- Lifetime revocation of your California Driver's License
- Being subject to denial of a State Board license or having your professional license suspended or revoked (see http://www.spitalaw.com/ - Professional Licensing)
When you call the highest rated San Diego law office of Samuel Spital & Associates, you ALWAYS receive a FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION from Sam Spital, a former Deputy Attorney General who is personal and caring as he leads the law firm.
Rest assured that no matter how complex your embezzlement, insurance fraud, mortgage fraud, welfare fraud, credit card fraud, mail fraud, real estate fraud, or major fraud case, we want to be your personal San Diego Fraud Defense Attorneys. When you retain our law firm as your experienced and effective San Diego embezzlement defense attorneys, Fraud Defense Lawyers San Diego, check fraud, mortgage fraud, welfare fraud, insurance fraud, real estate fraud or San Diego credit card fraud lawyers, we fully understand the criminal laws and defense that apply and we know what to do. We handle felony fraud cases in any San Diego Superior Court or federal court, as well as California criminal appellate courts, including:
- Embezzlement
- Credit Card Fraud
- Check Fraud and Insufficient Fund Checks
- Insurance Fraud
- Medicare or Medicaid Fraud
- Securities Fraud
- Mortgage Fraud
- Healthcare Fraud
- Real estate Fraud
- Welfare Fraud
- Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Schemes
We want to be your San Diego fraud defense lawyers. We will defend your rights at every stage of your insurance fraud, welfare fraud, healthcare fraud, check fraud, real estate fraud, mortgage fraud, credit card fraud or criminal fraud case. Even before you've been charged, if you think you are under investigation, contact us for legal advice and guidance.
We CARE! From police contact and interrogations, through detention, arrest and arraignment, and on to the end of your case, we will be by your side, aggressively fighting for you and protecting your rights. CONTACT US when you want a San Diego white collar crimes defense lawyer or embezzlement attorney; we're here for you!
Samuel Spital & Associates
Main Offices
8880 Rio San Diego Drive
Suite 800
San Diego, CA 92108-1642
Telephone: 619-583-0350
Banker's Hill Associate's Office
Of Counsel - Russell Babcock, Esq.
1901 First Avenue, Suite 138
San Diego, Ca. 92101
Downtown Associate's Office
Of Counsel - Bill O'Connell, Esq.
110 West C Street, Suite 1300
San Diego, Ca. 92101-3978
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