Posted on 01/16/2019 8:23:16 AM PST by TigerClaws
Over $500. in Missouri is a felony. Many do not realize it and hang paper anyway. Too late then...
“Under criminal penalties, you can be prosecuted and even arrested for writing a bad check. A bounced check typically becomes a criminal matter when the person who wrote it did so intending to commit fraud like writing several bad checks in a short timeframe. This can be seen as a felony in many states, especially when the checks are for more than $500. If they are less than $500 and there are criminal charges, it is typically seen as a misdemeanor. The majority of bounced check cases do not involve criminal penalties because they are written in error and most people cover the expenses quickly.”
https://www.credit.com/personal-finance/what-you-need-to-know-about-bounced-checks
So I guess it mostly depends on the jurisdiction and how many bouncers he floated.
Prosecutors probably have the ability to reduce to misd even though the statute says 500 or more constitutes a felony charge. I’m sure they can figure in prior arrests, pleas, convictions. I’m sure they might even have diversion or agreements to make arrangements to pay back the victims before real felony charges are filed.
I believe Larry King was also arrested for bad checks many years back.
Ping
New revealing biography of King’s one-time friend Louis E. Wolfson
It tells story of how the pair fell out spectacularly over a bad debt
Wolfson had King arrested for grand larceny over theft of $5,000
But King escaped justice because the statute of limitations had expired
By Daily Mail Reporter
9 January 2014
Television host Larry King looks set to relive one of the most embarrassing episodes of his career with the publication of a new book that details his criminal past.
The biography of King’s one-time friend Louis E. Wolfson tells the story of how the pair fell out spectacularly over a bad debt with Wolfson having King arrested for Grand Larceny and almost succeeding in destroying his career.
The book, written by Wolfson’s daughter Marcia and Harry Hurt III who also penned a biography of Donald Trump, is currently being pitched to publishers. ...”
Yeah, that’s it. I didn’t know the details before, thanks.
LOL!!
He must be pretty damn broke if he can’t afford that. I would imagine he must have made millions on the catch a predator show.
“I would imagine he must have made millions on the catch a predator show.”
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I don’t know that he would have made millions, but NBC must have paid him pretty well, as the show was a big draw. He surely would have made much more than enough in salary to easily cover this.
It is 2019.
Stop writing checks.
And stop accepting checks.
Didn’t someone do a follow up on these “catch a predator” and find out, that not a single one of the guys they filmed was ever convicted of anything?
I went through the last book of checks in about 6 years.
This set should last longer. One routine expense went away. I write one for church offering and the rare time I can’t pay a bill online.
By PAUL BENTLEY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
UPDATED: 12:22 EST, 3 August 2011
To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, who was caught a month ago cheating on his wife with a young blonde television reporter, has also secretly been dating a Las Vegas stripper, it has been reported.
The married NBC anchor, 52, who made his name with a controversial show that catches would-be internet sex perverts, was secretly filmed on an illicit date with 30-year-old Kristyn Caddell in late June.
And now it appears he was also cheating on his mistress, with revelations that Hansen was also for six months secretly dating petite blonde Kathleen Collins, a stripper and aspiring country singer.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021968/To-Catch-Predator-host-Chris-Hansen-cheated-MISTRESS-stripper.html
Why? I'm sure he could have written a check for any bail that had been required. Clerk didn't think his check was good?
He wrote multiple bad checks to this guy, that makes it intentional I believe, which then makes it criminal.
I regularly watch his channel on youtube, True Crime Daily.
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