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The Internal Revenue Service, state tax authorities and tax preparers and others have been cracking down during the past decade on tax return fraud linked to identity theft. A pilot program that has been tested to reduce the number of fraudulently-filed returns will...
Everyone is familiar with sex offender registries for those convicted of sex crimes. People can remain on these registries for many years after they've completed their prison sentence. Now, two Ohio lawmakers are advocating for a similar registry for people who've...
Cyberbullying, as most people know, involves using the internet or other technology to intimidate, harass or threaten someone. It's commonly done via text, email and social media sites. While cyberbullying make lack the physical component of the bullying that many of...
Here in Ohio, we've been inundated recently with a seemingly-endless barrage of ads from the presidential candidates. Every vote may be crucial to electing the next president. However, many people wrongly believe that they are no longer allowed to vote because they...
When you are driving outside of Ohio, do not think that a traffic violation or drunk driving conviction will remain in that state. In addition to whatever consequences you face in that state, trouble will likely follow you back to Ohio. This also goes for out-of-state...
There were recently two embezzling cases that ended with two very different sentences for the defendants. One of the defendants is a former clerk-treasurer for Amherst and the other is an ex-football player for the Browns. Both of the individuals stole over $100,000....
Mass marketing fraud is a type of fraud scheme that uses more than one kind of mass-communication technique. The techniques could include the Internet, mail, telephone, email or even meetings with large groups of people. There are two general categories of mass...
Social media helps keep us in touch with family and friends, share music and generally let others know what we're doing. There are some people, though, that use social media for something a bit different -- showing off their crimes. That is what police allege happened...
It's been two years since Anthony Lemons was released from an Ohio prison after a judge in a Cuyahoga Common Pleas Court set him free. He had spent the last 18 years in prison for the murder of a man back in April 1994. While Lemons thought his troubles were finally...
A man in West Virginia was accused of trying to arrange sex with a teenage girl in the Cleveland area. However, the "girl" was not in fact a girl at all; it was actually an investigator employed by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force who had been...