Business Crimes

Business/white collar crime encompasses a wide range of criminal activity perpetrated in a commercial, professional, business, or government setting such as embezzlement and fraud.  Crimes include bank fraud, insurance fraud, mortgage fraud, credit card fraud, wire and mail fraud, check kiting, forgery, real estate fraud, identity theft, Ponzi and Pyramid schemes, and cybercrime.

Defending persons charged with these crimes requires familiarity with complex financial transactions.  It also takes a highly organized, systematic approach.  Attorney Karp’s training and employment experience as a Certified Public Accountant and auditor with Price Waterhouse in the late 1980s allow him to master sophisticated financial information, data and systems that are often involved in defending persons accused of white collar crime.  Furthermore, Attorney Karp prosecuted several white collar crime cases while employed as an Assistant District Attorney in Boston.  So, he has an “insider’s” perspective when defending persons charged with such crimes.

Attorney Karp is also uniquely qualified to defend persons charged with bank fraud, mortgage fraud, and real estate-related fraud.  He has vast experience in commercial and residential real estate transactions.  In fact, Attorney Karp has represented financial institutions, individuals, developers and businesses involved in more than three hundred real estate closings.  He has represented developers in dozens of condominium and subdivision projects.  This experience, along with Attorney Karp’s superb trial skills, makes him a formidable white collar crime defense