ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The compliance officer at SunFirst Bank recently shared her experiences at an anti-money laundering conference in Las Vegas.  She was the person who discovered that SunFirst Bank was processing funds from online gambling operations.    She alleged that the bank knowingly violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.  California […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Another case involving financial elder abuse is in the news in California.  This case was written up in an article in the California Bar Journal in October 2013.  The defendant in the case is a San Francisco attorney who befriended a 77 year old doctor from Maryland.  Then […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of a California durable medical equipment firm was recently found guilty of Medicare fraud.  The scheme resulted in more than $11 million dollars in fraudulent Medicare charges.  Los Angeles false claims attorneys say that Medicare fraud is a problem that is continuing to grow, at the […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER According to the State Bar of California, one in seven senior citizens across the nation become victims of elder abuse.  Sadly, the abuse is usually perpetrated by a family member.  There are two major categories of elder abuse, physical elder abuse and financial elder abuse.  It doesn’t matter […]

In California, elder abuse lawyers are reporting a disturbing trend—an alarmingly high number of financial and physical abuse cases against older people are going unresolved. California’s Department of Public Health has a myriad of laws in place to ensure that health care workers such as live-in caretakers and assisted living […]

A financial planner was terminated from his position after coming forward with concerns regarding possible securities law violations at his firm.  A judge has ruled that the whistleblower may proceed with a claim under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  The judge rejected the company’s contention that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER The owner of an elder care facility in Sacramento has been charged with elder abuse and involuntary manslaughter.  The charges stem from the death of a resident at the Super Home Care facility.  The elderly victim in this case was hospitalized in June of 2012 with gaping bedsores.  […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER United State Senator Ron Wyden is investigating the recent firing of a nuclear power plant whistleblower.  The whistleblower worked for UBS Corporation for more than 44 years.   He was employed at a nuclear facility on the west coast.  Senator Wyden wrote a letter to the Energy Secretary about […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER In California, and many other states across the nation, nearly anyone can become a private caregiver.  Napa County is doing its best to ensure that criminals are not able to become caregivers. Napa is the only California county to require home care providers to apply for and carry […]

Elder abuse lawyers in San Francisco report that acts of serious physical, sexual, and verbal abuse are rampant in nursing homes across the country. A recently released study prepared by the Special Investigations Division of the House Government Reform Committee indicates that more than 5,000 institutions—one-third of all nursing homes […]