Bank Fraud Defense
Strategies to counter bank fraud accusations.
Bank Fraud Defense
Dowling Defense Group routinely defends business owners under investigation for, or charged
with, multi-million-dollar bank fraud cases.
Federal law makes it a crime to execute a “scheme or artifice to defraud” a financial institution
or to obtain money or property of the financial institution through false or fraudulent pretenses,
representations, or promises. A common example of bank fraud involves a business submitting
fraudulent financial statements to a bank when seeking a loan.
Bank fraud is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison and hefty fines. Dowling Defense
Group routinely secures favorable resolutions for clients under investigation for bank fraud. In
any bank fraud case, it is critical to have the advice of counsel at an early stage to try to mitigate
the exposure to criminal liability at the outset—even, and especially, before an indictment is
issued.
Federal prosecutors usually charge additional offenses in bank fraud cases, including conspiracy.
