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Why Giving Assets To Spouse, Relatives Isn’t Asset Protection

February 26, 2018 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer 2 Comments

The thing about bad planing is that it tends to stack up, getting bigger and badder with each step. Like waiting too late to act, then doing what you’re not allowed to when you’re not allowed to do it. The Old, “I Don’t Own Anything, My Wife (Kid, Brother, etc.) Owns It All” We have previously […]

Filed Under: Asset Protection for Doctors, Asset Protection Fraud and Failures, asset protection law, Business Owners, financial literacy, fraud, fraudulent conveyance, Gifting - Wealth Transfer, wealth transfer Tagged With: asset protection failures, bad asset protection, Doctors, gifting, gifting to children, incomplete gifting, law

Protect Your Business or Medical Practice From Internal Fraud

November 6, 2017 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Attorney Leave a Comment

Business and medical practice owners and managers must be aware of internal fraud and embezzlement that often capitalizes on recurring year-end cycles in revenue, spending and inventory and a lack of regular oversight. I covered some of the external fraud scheme you face at year-end in another discussion including a detailed look at invoice fraud.  While I provided […]

Filed Under: business legal planning, business owner and entrepreneur, chiropractors, closely held business, cpa, dentists, Doctors, Employment law, FINANCIAL ISSUES FOR DOCTORS, fraud, Medical Practice Management, Medical Practice Risk Management, Surgeons and Surgical Centers Tagged With: Asset Protection, business law, embezzlement, employment law, fraud, HR, Ike Devji, medical practice, theft

Year-End Tax-Scams Targeting Doctors and Business Owners

October 27, 2015 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

 The year-end planning rush so familiar to physicians has many pitfalls including a variety of serious tax scams. Some scams covertly target you externally, while others are actually brought to doctors and business owners by their own would-be advisors; today we provide some red flags to look out for on both fronts. This is part […]

Filed Under: abusive tax schemes, Asset Protection Fraud and Failures, business legal planning, cpa, financial advisors, FINANCIAL ISSUES FOR DOCTORS, financial literacy, fraud, scams, secret bank accounts, Surgeons and Surgical Centers, tax deductions, tax fraud, taxation Tagged With: constitutional trust, dirty dozen frivolous arguments, Doctors, entrpreneurs, ID theft, Ike Devji, pure trust, tax fraud, tax return fraud, trust scams

Tax Scam Warning – Fraud and ID Theft in 2015

February 2, 2015 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

Tax filing related scams are at all-time high and we are warning our clients about some specific fact patterns and known risks.  These criminal scams take many forms including mail, phone, email and now even social media and texts. Phone calls and email still seem to make up the bulk of the attempts, make sure […]

Filed Under: financial literacy, fraud, id theft, information security, legal documents and records, risk management, scams, taxes Tagged With: Asset Protection, CPA, fraud, I.R.S., ID theft, Ike Devji, infosec, personal security, security, taxes

Advisor Banned By FINRA for bad OBA and R.E. deals with NFL Players

March 12, 2013 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

A former financial advisor who cost a group of NFL players $43 million by steering them into a bum casino investment and other bad deals including real estate deals he took a peice of has been banned from the securities industry. See the story: http://www.fa-mag.com/news/advisor-barred-from-industry-for-bilking-nfl-players-13600.html?section=43 I wish I could say this was unusual, it’s not. […]

Filed Under: Asset Protection, CEO, commercial real estate, finacial advisors, Finance, fraud, investing, investment exposure, professional athletes, professional entertainers, real estate investing, scams Tagged With: advisors, ceo, commercial real estate, doctors financial, due dilligence, finance, Ike Devji, investing, Professional Athletes, Residential Real Estate, risk

Professional Athletes: Fraud, Investing and Lawsuits

January 7, 2013 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

  We work with professional athletes on a variety of asset protection and business related issues. Although surrounded by managers and agents, they are often victimized by fraud schemes and increasingly coming under fire themselves, in many cases after making bad moves due to financial pressures. Here are 3 recent articles on these exposures, check […]

Filed Under: fraud, Ike Devji, investing, investment exposure, professional athletes Tagged With: Asset Protection, due dillgence, fraud, Ike Devji, investing, Professional Athletes

Ex-Dallas Cowboy Football Player Sentenced in $20MM Mortgage Fraud

December 13, 2012 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

“Mean Gene the Hitting Machine,” Lockhart was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison this week for his role in an affinity fraud scam involving mortgage fraud and trading on the name of the Dallas Cowboys. Usually we are protecting the NFL, MLB and NBA players we deal with from outside scams, sometimes the snake is […]

Filed Under: Due Dilligence, fraud, professional athletes, professional entertainers Tagged With: Asset Protection, Due Diligence, Ike Devji, mortgage fraud, NFL, Professional Athletes

Incomplete Gift Tax Reporting – A Common FATAL Asset Protection Flaw

September 19, 2011 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

RELYING ON GIFTING TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS  (SEE ALSO FAILING TO ACT)  Transferring all of your assets to your spouse and/or children, especially after something has happened, will not protect your assets from a lawsuit. Even if it did protect those assets from your lawsuits, transferring your assets to your spouse and/or children opens up another Pandora’s […]

Filed Under: abusive tax schemes, Asset Protection, Asset Protection Fraud and Failures, cpa, estate planning, estate tax, fraud, Gifting - Wealth Transfer, scams, taxation, taxes, Wealth Transfer Strategies Tagged With: Asset Protection, CPA, gift tax returns, gifting, Ike Devji, incomplete gifting, tax fraud

Shelf Corporations, Nevada, Wyoming and other Asset Protection FAILS

September 12, 2011 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

The Secretary of State’s Securities Division has issued a cease and desist order to a Wyoming company doing business in Nevada to stop selling shell corporations registered with his office because it is a securities violation.

Filed Under: abusive tax schemes, Asset Protection, business legal planning, fraud, malpractice, Nevada, scams, secret bank accounts, shelf corporations, taxation, Uncategorized Tagged With: Asset Protection, corporate ownership, irs dirty dozen, nevada corporations, nevada fraud, nevada securities, secrecy in asset protecetion, shelf corporations, tax fraud

Physicians Facing Increased Risk as Investment Fraud Targets

March 17, 2011 by Ike Devji, Asset Protection Lawyer Leave a Comment

Ike Devji, J.D. The amount of fraud targeting doctors is increasing daily as they, like everyone else, are feeling the pinch of current economic conditions, decreasing compensation and stalled or negative investment momentum. Those of us in legal and financial professions know that markets are primarily motivated by fear and greed, meaning fear of loss […]

Filed Under: Asset Protection, business legal planning, chiropractors, dentists, fraud, Greg George, GTI ADVISORS, Ike Devji, investment exposure, physicians, scams, Uncategorized Tagged With: Asset Protection, dental practice, doctors financial, Greg George, Ike Devji, physicians investing

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