Criminal Defense Practice Areas

White collar crimes are generally classified as non-violent crimes committed during the course of ones profession with a financial motive. At the state level the most common white collar crime Mr. Teakell defends fraud cases; particularly charges that include bribery, forgery, identify theft, or false representation. At the federal level Mr. Teakell is an expert at defending mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and bribery and extortion cases that involve federal property, agencies, employees, or falls under intrastate commerce clauses.

That vast majority of computer crimes involve a financial motive which result in charges of some forms of fraud.  Mr. Teakell has considerable expertise defending cases that involve unauthorized access, stealing or destroying data, and fraud cases that typically involved a computer or internet connected device; particularly wire fraud committed as part of a phishing to gain unauthorized access, hacking to disrupt a network, and computer crimes with a financial motive such as credit farm.