White-Collar Crimes
Our experienced white-collar crime attorneys at Lapine Law are highly skilled in helping clients navigate California's criminal justice system.
How We Defend White-Collar Crimes Cases
White-collar prosecutions are paper-heavy and document-driven. Successful defense requires the patience and the resources to challenge the State's financial narrative line by line.
We work with forensic accountants and industry experts to expose alternative interpretations of the evidence and protect your career, your assets, and your freedom.
Federal investigations often begin long before charges are filed — through grand-jury subpoenas, target letters, or unannounced agent visits. The right response in those first 30 days can turn a federal indictment into a declination.
Parallel proceedings — SEC enforcement, IRS criminal referrals, civil RICO, professional-licensing actions — all carry consequences that survive even a favorable criminal outcome. We coordinate every front simultaneously.
What's at Stake
- ▸PC 487 (grand theft): up to 3 years in state prison
- ▸PC 503 (embezzlement): punished per underlying theft statute
- ▸PC 470 (forgery): up to 3 years; wobbler
- ▸PC 532 (false pretenses): up to 3 years; restitution mandated
- ▸Federal wire/mail fraud (18 USC 1341/1343): up to 20 years federal prison
- ▸Mandatory restitution, asset forfeiture, and professional license revocation
How We Fight Back
- Lack of intent to defraud — honest mistake or accounting error
- Claim of right or good-faith entitlement
- Statute of limitations
- Insufficient predicate acts (no scheme)
- Reliance on counsel or qualified professional advice
- Materiality challenge to alleged misrepresentation
How Your Case Will Be Handled
We meet — in person, by phone, or by video — to hear your side, review every document, and identify the prosecution's theory before it solidifies.
We send our own investigators after the witnesses, the surveillance, the bodycam, and the records the State would rather you never see.
Motions to suppress, Pitchess motions, expert retention, and negotiation — every lever pulled before a jury is ever empaneled.
Dismissal, reduction, diversion, or a trial verdict — we prepare every case as if it will be tried, because the State takes notice when a defense lawyer means it.
White-Collar Crimes FAQs
Every Hour Matters in a White-Collar Crimes Case.
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Related Defense Areas
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