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Repairing Search Results Following White Collar Legal Trouble
After you’ve been involved in a legal case, your Google search results may be overwhelming to the point where you wonder if your online reputation will ever recover. You may have had conversations with search specialists who promise the moon in exchange for an exorbitant fee, or spent serious time watching supposedly-instructional YouTube videos. And…
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From Incarceration to Inspiration: My Path of Spiritual Renewal
The last five years of my life have been a life changing journey, filled with some of the most challenging moments I’ve ever faced. Amidst a life that has seen its share of ups and downs, losing my dad and best friend while still in my teens, taking risks in business that looking back seem…
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My First Weeks in the Residential Drug Abuse Program
I was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison in January 2022 and was designated to Alderson Federal Prison Camp. I reported on February 28, 2022. Based upon my allocution, the judge made a recommendation RDAP as part of my Judgment and Commitment. RDAP (Residential Drug Abuse Program), is a 500-hour Bureau of Prisons substance…
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How Do First Step Act (FSA) Earned Time Credits Work?
What Is The First Step Act? The First Step Act is a bipartisan criminal justice reform bill signed into law in December 2018. The Act focuses on reducing recidivism by expanding educational and vocational programs and granting inmates early release credits (FSA Time Credits, aka FTC) for participating in these programs. It also includes provisions to ease mandatory minimum sentences for…
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Book Excerpt: Holidays in Federal Prison
“What are holidays like in prison?” It’s a big and important question because so many fears course through our minds as we walk this path, and this is one of them. So much so, I dedicated a chapter to it in “Blank Canvas, How I Reinvented My Life After Prison.” An important aspect of a…
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Friends: Expectations & Disappointments
My journey in the criminal justice system has been going for over 10 years now. My former spouse was charged in 2010. I was charged in 2014, I pled guilty, and sentenced in 2015. I served my time in 2019 and 2020. Later this year, in December, I’ll be done with Supervised Release. While the…
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The Power of Perspective: Discovering the Hidden Gift in my Darkest Days
I wanted it to be done. I don’t know what done actually meant, I just knew I wanted it, and I wanted it more than I wanted anything. I’m referring to how I felt after I was arrested by the FBI. I wanted the situation to be over, but I couldn’t see the other side; I…
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Merchants of FUD
I could target this post to a broad audience of anyone looking to invest in any program to improve their lives, but I’m deliberately focusing on a particular niche. For anyone who doesn’t know, I committed fraud against a tech giant and went to prison. The experience opened me up to a world I didn’t…