Blog Posts in November, 2011
Posted on Nov 28, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Federal law enforcement agents announced today that they have shut down as many as 150 websites that they say were selling counterfeit merchandise online. Agents for both the International Customs ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Three people in Florida pleaded guilty in a federal court proceeding last week to fraud charges that netted up to $1 million in a scam against several elderly locals. The South Florida trio is accused ...
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Posted on Nov 27, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Local law enforcement agents in Boston, Massachusetts have reported that a man viewed child pornography on while on a flight from Salt Lake City, Utah to Boston. Forty-seven-year-old Grant Smith was ...
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Posted on Nov 19, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Officials for the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) food stamp program are coming out in force to zero in on convenience stores and larger grocery stores that are trafficking food ...
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Posted on Nov 18, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Law enforcement officials in New York City busted as many a ring of identity theives today that are suspected of stealing credit card information from restaurant patrons. According to reports, the ...
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Posted on Nov 10, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced today that they had uncovered a ring of Eastern European cyber-criminals that had hijacked over four million computers in the United ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin
As any experienced Los Angeles Federal Criminal Defense Attorney can attest, there are many crimes that are considered federal criminal offenses. Violent crimes are certainly capable of being tried ...
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