Stahl Gasiorowski Criminal Defense Lawyers of Westfield, NJ and New York, NY is pleased to announce that three of its attorneys have been selected to the 2024 edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® in America. Robert G. Stahl, Esq. has earned the Best Lawyers award for both Crinimal Defense: White Collar Crime, [...]
Tommy Cetnar: We’re back to The Tommy Cetnar Show, August 15th. We’ll get into this special date in our last 10 minutes. Robin, we have a great man here. I’m going to have to read it as is. This former Detective Sergeant, who then went and put himself through law school. Mr. Robert [...]
Although New Jersey is comprised of only one federal district, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has federal courthouses in Newark, Trenton and Camden. New Jersey is among the busiest federal courts in the country. A sample of criminal cases involving financial fraud and healthcare fraud before the U.S. District Court [...]
We frequently receive calls from employees or recently terminated employees that have been confronted with embezzlement or some type of theft or fraud from their employer, have already admitted to their misdeed, have wired a payment to the employer and are scheduled to send another payment on the day they contact defense counsel. The [...]
By Robert G. Stahl and Laura K. Gasiorowski Universities around the country have been aggressively investigating hazing. These investigations have been propelled by several tragic events that have resulted in fatalities or serious injuries usually resulting from excessive alcohol consumption. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs “Timothy J. Piazza’s Anti-hazing Law” Most university [...]
On June 6, 2023, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued State v. Johnson, a valuable published opinion that clarifies the procedures that must be followed under the “vehicle registration search” exception to the warrant requirement. The vehicle registration search exception the warrant requirement authorizes police to enter a lawfully stopped vehicle to conduct a [...]
Domestic violence cases pose a unique challenge for prosecutors because domestic violence incidents are at once difficult to prosecute, yet extremely common, occurring, on average, about once every eight seconds throughout New Jersey, according to the statistics compiled by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. Domestic violence is difficult to prosecute because incidents usually [...]
Federal regulatory and law enforcement agencies have been redirecting and expanding their resources to investigate and combat frauds involving crypto and other digital platforms. The SEC recently requested $200M from Congress to hire additional 170 new employees, many to focus on crypto-related cases. These new hires will include lawyers in the Division of Enforcement’s [...]
Stahl Gasiorowski Criminal Defense Lawyers of Westfield, NJ and New York, NY is pleased to announce that two of its partners have been selected to the 2023 edition of Super Lawyers magazine in White Collar Criminal Defense. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of lawyers from more than 70 practice [...]
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world use facial recognition technology and other AI in investigations to track targets’ movements and as evidence in prosecutions. While books and movies often portray this technology as highly advanced and foolproof, reality can be quite different. Recent cases have demonstrated that facial recognition technology is far [...]