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Criminal Practice Areas include but are not limited to: Driving
Under the Influence (DUI), Criminal DUI, Driver's License
Offenses, Driving with a Suspended License, Criminal Drug
Defense, Felony, Misdemeanor, Probation Violations, Seal and
Expunge Criminal Records, RICO, Organized Fraud, Domestic
Violence, Weapon/Firearm Offenses, Burglary/Robbery, Armed
Robbery, Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Practicing
Medicine without a License, Accessory / Attempt / Solicitation/,
Conspiracy, Kidnapping, Homicide, Sexual Battery/Lewd Conduct
and many more areas.
If you or a loved one has been accused of a crime in Florida,
you need a Fort Lauderdale criminal attorney to protect
your rights as soon as possible.
Our criminal law practice consists of defending individuals
throughout Florida accused of virtually any type of crime.
The Mayersohn Law Group believes it is wise to consult an
attorney whenever you are faced with life changes or incidences
that are beyond your normal scope of experience. If you are
suddenly challenged with an issue that impacts you and your
family, always seek the advice of an experienced Fort
Lauderdale criminal attorney. Our
firm can help.
Addendum
Corporate Criminal
Investigations
My Firm handles a large percentage of what we term corporate
criminal investigations. We often coordinate with in-house
counsel or CEO’s of companies regarding a variety of criminal
law related issues and how to handle them internally.
As the economy has declined, we have seen an increase in
employee thefts, management criminal trouble, and customer
criminal activity. Of paramount importance is how a company
handles these matters internally to get the desired result for
the company.
Employee thefts vary from straight theft of monies to complex
schemes to defraud the company which are difficult to detect. My
firm can assist in investigating the employee conduct,
interviewing employees to obtain statements, and getting law
enforcement involved to prosecute when necessary. Likewise, we
often manage media concerns with the client to avoid any
unnecessary negative publicity surrounding such events. It is
important to obtain outside counsel who handles criminal matters
as often times if a corporate attorney without criminal law
experience tries to handle these matters themselves, they might
taint evidence or cause problems so that law enforcement will
not get involved.
Examples of these types of cases which the Firm has handled are
a case where an employee opened a separate corporation with the
same name as the principal company in a different state and
attempted to wire a substantial amount of company funds from the
closing on a megayacht to his accounts to flee the country; a
case where in-house counsel was stealing money by taking legal
fees off of HUD statements in closings he was handling
internally for the company; a case where an employee was getting
cash incentives up front to give beneficial lease rates to
prospective commercial tenants.
Management criminal trouble ranges from complex federal criminal
allegations related to work decisions to DUI matters after
imbibing too much to severe substance abuse addiction issues to
domestic violence issues. These matters are very important to
handle in the least disruptive manner possible. In cases of
criminal conduct related to work, it is important to consider
that a corporation or other key employees could also potentially
be charged criminally. When a key employee gets arrested, it is
important to get them out of jail as quickly as possible and
with as little notoriety as possible. If a key employee has a
substance abuse problem, we are able to get the employee
assessed and determine the best course of action for both the
employee and the company so that the employee can obtain
treatment and the company can still have contact with the
employee for important work matters.
We have handled a multitude of these delicate matters such as a
allegations that a CEO did not comply with the Blue Sky Laws or
the Florida Department of Financial Services regulations, a high
profile CEO crashing a company vehicle while under the influence
of alcohol with a mistress in his car, a famous chef arrested
for lewd and lascivious conduct, federal allegations of mortgage
fraud committed by the head of a large mortgage company, the CEO
of a large company being arrested for cocaine possession and
requiring drug rehabilitation, getting the CEO of a large
company with cocaine addiction problems Marchman Acted so that
he could get drug treatment, and dealing with the law partner in
a real estate firm who stole money from the firm’s trust account
which was supposed to be used to pay off the prior mortgages of
clients.
Finally, when clients engage in criminal conduct there are a
multitude of considerations involved. The company must first
determine how it wants to handle the relationship. This varies
from client to client and the type of criminal conduct. For
example, a lender had a problem with a client who bounced
several large checks to his corporation. When he approached the
police initially, they were not inclined to file criminal
charges. We took over and have been able to troubleshoot this
matter successfully for the company.
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