White Collar Crime

The crime of choice for the businessperson seems to be white-collar corruption. Corporate corruption has been around since business was started but lately there has been a swell in business fraud and corruption prosecutions and investigations. Experts to demographic shifts and economic forces have accredited the changing character of crime. One problem with today's crimes is the advances in technology. The Internet is a major contributing factor to the proportion of financial crime cases. Since …

…get a hung jury. They must win over all of them, earning an outright acquittal, to truly save their clients. Reality is forcing attorneys to reconsider the adage that retrials favor the defense. This old way of thinking was based upon the assumption that prosecutors lose the element of surprise when a second trial is held. This still may hold true in criminal crime cases, but it doesn't apply in the world of corporate crime.