Even minor drug offenses can result in serious penalties, but this is particularly true for non-citizen immigrants in the United States. Whereas a simple charge for possession of marijuana might result in a small fine for a citizen, this same charge may leave a non-citizen just a few steps away from deportation. However, the U.S. Supreme Court recently offered immigrants a reprieve in limited situations.

Osiel Cárdenas was once one of Mexico’s most feared drug lords.

Medicare fraud costs tax payers billions of dollars every year. As a result, the Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are partnering in a joint agency effort to combat Medicare fraud.

Earlier this year, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reached an agreement with Swiss banking giant UBS. The agreement is centered upon deferring prosecution of UBS for charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by interfering with the IRS.

Like most of the country, Texas has been hit hard by the ongoing downturn in the housing market. This decline has had a wide range of consequences, leaving many homeowners with upside-down mortgages, cities with reduced revenues and consumers with little confidence in their financial affairs.