500+ DWI & CRIMINAL DEFENSE TRIALS
With the prosecution of new cases at the federal level for white-collar crimes down 25 percent in the last five years, it might seem easier than ever to get away with these nonviolent crimes. However, in the months since the beginning of the public health crisis, especially shortly after the enactment of the Defense Production Act, the Justice Department has been adamant about investigating and prosecuting white-collar criminals who are seeking to make illegal profits off of the pandemic, be it through price-gouging, equipment hoarding, market manipulation, insider trading, or fraudulent sales activities. In that sense, a flurry of activity prosecuting white-collar crimes is likely to reverse the recent downward trend in the number of cases and, since these are usually federal crimes, Texas residents are just as likely to face such charges as any other Americans would be.
What Is White-Collar Crime?
Reportedly first described by social scientist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as crimes committed by people of high social stature through their professional work activities, “white-collar crime” concerns nonviolent offenses dealing mostly with financial transgressions committed by business and government professionals.
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