DC Fraud Lawyer

A Washington DC fraud lawyer will lead you through the complicated criminal justice system. Following is the basic information you would need if facing a fraud charge in Washington DC.

Fraud is comprised of actions that are performed with the intent to deceive. Fraud includes any action involving a breach of duty, trust, or confidence, resulting in damage to another, or by which undue advantage is taken of another.

In Washington DC, a person commits the offense of fraud in the first degree if that person engages in a scheme or systematic course of conduct with intent to defraud or obtain another’s property with a false or fraudulent pretense, representation, or promise, and thereby obtains property of another or causes another to lose property.

The elements of second degree fraud in Washington DC are quite similar to those of first degree fraud. Second degree fraud does not require an actual taking or losing of property. Washington DC fraud may also be committed by means of false promise as to future performance which the accused does not intend to perform or knows will not be performed.

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