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Have you ever reported more hours on your timecard or invoice than you worked? Have you ever taken a longer lunch than usual, but recorded it as if it was the normal length?

You may not think those “white lies” could get you in trouble with Colorado law. However, technically speaking, if your employer or client chooses to push the issue, you could potentially get slapped with fraud for something as seemingly minor as padding your hours.

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A woman from Aurora may be facing fraud charges after allegedly forging paperwork to get her neighbor’s house for the price of $1.

How did this happen? Apparently, her neighbor was living in Germany when she received a phone call that someone was living in her house.

Dominique Johnson, also nationally known as slam poet Dominique Christina, recorded a quit claim deed at the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder’s Office on July 31. Typically, there is a six-week delay between [...]

When someone says the word “fraud,” what do you think of? Identity theft? Signing a bad check? Telling a white lie?

Fraud is one of the most common white collar crimes, and it comes in many forms. In fact, all of these actions fall under the massive umbrella of fraud under Colorado law. Moreover, as technology and the way we use and store our finances changes, new types of fraud and new fraud schemes are being created every day.

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Fraud is an umbrella term that encompasses a huge array of white collar criminal offenses, from relatively simple falsification of expense claims to sophisticated investment scams.

Though fraud crimes come in many different varieties and forms, most of them involve intentionally usinng some type of dishonest or deceitful statement or action against an individual or entity in order to gain money, property, or something of value. In order to qualify as criminal fraud, actual injury or damages must result from [...]