Union Official Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over $1 Million from ILA Local 970 NORFOLK, Va. – Robert Smith, III, 48, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of mail fraud for a decade-long scheme to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Local 970 of over $1 million. Over 600 people are victims of Mr. […]
Staten Island Man Charged With Defrauding Over 100 Investors Of More Than $2 Million Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the arrest and unsealing of
Plaza Construction Charged With Fraud Will Pay More Than $9 Million In Restitution And Penalties For Defrauding Clients In A Thirteen-Year Overbilling Scheme Projects Included the Empire State Building, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bronx Terminal Market, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and New York University Earlier today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District
Logan County, Kentucky, Tax Return Preparers Guilty Of Preparing False Tax Returns Falsified taxpayer education expenses resulting in education credits on prepared tax returns for a loss of more than $250,000 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Two former tax preparers pleaded guilty in United States District Court this week, before United States District Judge Greg N.
Second Defendant Pleads Guilty In Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Alagi Samba, 46, of Bronx, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, before U.S. District Judge Laurence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and
Buisnessman Indicted On Embezzlement And Tax Charges PHILADELPHIA – An indictment was returned today charging David T. Shulick, 46, of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, with embezzling funds from the School District of Philadelphia. Shulick was also charged in a scheme to defraud PNC Bank, and with filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. The indictment
Modesto Man Pleads Guilty to Staging Car Accidents in a Scheme to Defraud Insurance Companies FRESNO, Calif. — Victor Hugo Soriano-Villafan, 26, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail fraud in a scheme to defraud insurance companies, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court documents, from October 2011 until
Identifying Bankruptcy Fraud Bankruptcy Fraud is a form of deception and theft, which unfortunately, is increasing in both the US and Europe. The bankruptcy system is designed to give an individual or a company a chance to reorganize their affairs, or if reorganization is not possible, to equitably distribute the non-exempt assets of the debtor among the
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Business Owner Sentenced To 36 Months In Prison For Defrauding Over 400 Victims Of $809,205.43 Owner of Patriot Computers ordered to pay full restitution to victims LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, was sentenced this week, in United States District Court, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley
Owner of Florida Home Health Agency Convicted in Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme The owner of a Tampa, Florida, home health agency was convicted by a federal jury for her participation in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney
