Embezzlement / Accounts Falsification by a Public Officer (PC 424)
LEGAL DEFINITION PC 424. Any individual whose job includes receiving, transferring, or distributing public funds, commits embezzlement or accounts falsification when he or she:…
Financial/Theft Crimes
Grand Theft (PC 487)
LEGAL DEFINITION PC 487: Grand Theft is the unlawful taking of the property of another when the value of the taken property exceeds $950 dollars. …
Penal Code 330: Illegal Gambling Laws in California
PC 330: Illegal Gambling Legal Definition: Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either…
Penal Code 332: Obtaining Money by Gaming Fraud Laws in California
PC 332: Obtaining Money By Gaming Fraud Legal Definition: (a) Every person who by the game of “three-card monte,” so-called, or any other game,…
Penal Code 377b: Sports Bribing Laws in California
PC 337b: Sports Bribing Legal Definition: “Any person who gives, or offers or promises to give, or attempts to give or offer, any money,…
Bookmaking Laws (PC 377a) in California
PC 377a: Bookmaking Legal Definition: (a) Except as provided in Section 336.9, every person who engages in one of the following offenses, shall be…