Financial Fraud: James VanBlaricum Indicted For Ponzi Oil and Gas Fraud Scheme

Financial Fraud: James VanBlaricum Indicted For Ponzi Oil and Gas Fraud Scheme

December 15, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Colleyville Businessman on Mail Fraud Stemming from Ponzi Oil and Gas Fraud Scheme Defendant Operated Signal Oil and Gas Company FORT WORTH, Texas — A Colleyville, Texas, businessman, James VanBlaricum, who […] Read More

Financial Fraud: JOHN ARNOLD SHELLEY Indicted For Conspiracy and Commit Bank Fraud at The Bank of Union (BOU)

December 14, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Former Bank President Indicted in Connection with $100,000,000 Bank Failure Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Yesterday, a federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment against JOHN ARNOLD SHELLEY, 66, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in connection with the […] Read More

Investment Fraud: Six Individuals Charged With Fraudulent High-Yield Investment Program – Cities Upliftment Program (CUP)

December 14, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Six Individuals In International High-Yield Investment Fraud Scheme Scheme Participants Impersonated Federal Reserve Officials to Swindle Over $50 Million from Investors in the United States and Foreign Countries Preet […] Read More

Tax Fraud: Edward J. Tutunjian Sentenced For Payroll Tax Evasion And Employing Illegal Aliens

December 14, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Owner of Boston Cab Sentenced for Tax and Fraud Offenses BOSTON – Edward J. Tutunjian, who has owned and operated Boston Cab through his company, EJT Management, Inc., for more than four decades, was sentenced […] Read More

Financial Fraud: ROBERT KUSS Indicted In One Count of Mail Fraud Stemming From His Role in a Scheme to Defraud the U.S. Postal Service

December 13, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Managing Partner of Bulk Mail Firm Admits Defrauding U.S. Postal Service of Nearly $750K Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Shelly Binkowski, Inspector in Charge for the Boston Division […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Torneos y Competencias S.A. (Torneos) Charged With Wire Fraud Conspiracy And Participation in a Scheme to Corrupt International Soccer

December 13, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Argentine Sports Marketing Company Admits To Role In International Soccer Bribery Conspiracy And Agrees To $112 Million In Forfeiture And Criminal Penalties Torneos y Competencias S.A. Enters Into Four-Year Deferred Prosecution Agreement; Agrees to Enhanced […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Artashes Darbinyan Charges of Mail Fraud and Money Laundering

December 13, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

California Man Pleads Guilty to Perpetrating Trademark Scam and Money Laundering Associate Pleads Guilty to Helping Launder Proceeds of Scam LOS ANGELES – A Southern California man who masterminded a $1.66 million mass-mailing scam targeting […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Troy Stratos Sentenced for Multiple Counts of Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, And Money Laundering

December 13, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Stratos Sentenced to over 21 Years in Prison He Defrauded Victims of Over $30M Through Multiple Schemes and Obstructed Justice SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Troy David Stratos, 50, formerly of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by […] Read More

Investment Fraud: Joseph Taub and Elazar Shmalo Charged With Orchestrating a Massive, Long-Running Market Manipulation Scheme

December 12, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Two Securities Traders Charged In Scheme That Netted $26 Million In Illicit Profits Manipulated $10 Billion Worth of Securities in Tens of Thousands of Transactions NEWARK, N.J. – Two New Jersey-based securities traders were arrested […] Read More

Bank Teller Fraud: List Of Convicted for Mail Fraud, Money Laundering, and Tax Fraud

December 12, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Former Bank Teller Sentenced for $83,000 Embezzlement WICHITA, KAN. – A former Labette County bank clerk was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation, including eight months home confinement, and ordered to pay full restitution […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Samuel Mebiame Pleaded Guilty to Conspiring to Make Corrupt Payments to Government Officials in Africa

December 9, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Gabonese National Pleads Guilty To Foreign Bribery Scheme The Son of a Former Prime Minister of Gabon Bribed High-Ranking Government Officials in Multiple African Countries to Obtain Uranium Concessions and Other Mining Rights Samuel Mebiame, […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Seven Individuals Charged With Fraud Against The Social Security Administration (SSA)

December 8, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Arrest And Indictment Of Seven Individuals For Social Security Fraud SAN JUAN, P.R. – On December 6, 2016, a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned five separate Indictments charging seven individuals […] Read More

Healthcare Fraud: CEO and President Of The Pharmaceutical Company Charges With Defraud Health Care Insurers

December 8, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Pharmaceutical Executives Charged in Racketeering Scheme BOSTON – Several pharmaceutical executives and managers, formerly employed by Insys Therapeutics, Inc., were arrested today on charges that they led a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to […] Read More

Financial Frud: NIKESH A. PATEL Pleaded Guilty to Fraud in Sham Loans to a Milwaukee Investment Company

December 7, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Chief Executive of Florida-Based Financial Firm Guilty of Fraud in $179 Million Sham Loan Scheme CHICAGO — The CEO of a Florida-based financial firm has pleaded guilty to fraud charges in connection with the sale […] Read More

Tax Fraud: DAVID ADAMS Charged With One Count of Tax Evasion And One Count of Filing a False Tax Return

December 7, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Old Saybrook Resident Charged with Additional Tax Crimes Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today […] Read More

Investment Fraud: Howard Leventhal Sentenced For Million Fraud Scheme

December 6, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Canadian Deputy Health Minister Impersonator Sentenced To 60 Months’ Imprisonment In $26 Million Fraud Scheme BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, Howard Leventhal, the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of mHealth Technologies Corp., […] Read More

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Investment Fraud: JONATHAN LY Guilty to Insider Trading

December 5, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Former Expedia IT Support Worker Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Used Computer Network Credentials to Access Company Emails to Trade on Non-Public Information A computer support technician formerly employed at Expedia offices in San Francisco […] Read More

Financial Fraud: Chad Ducey and Two Other Individuals Was Sentenced For Multi-Million-Dollar Fraud Schemes of Imperial Petroleum Inc.

December 5, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

CEO of publicly traded company along with two others sent to federal prison Defrauded biodiesel purchasers and shareholders INDIANAPOLIS – United States Attorney Josh Minkler and Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department […] Read More

Tax Fraud: Barbara Antonucci Sentenced For Conspiring to File False Claims and Filing False Claims

December 2, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

El Dorado Hills Woman Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison for Tax Refund Scheme Involving More than $1.8 Million in Illegitimate Refunds SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Barbara Antonucci, […] Read More

Healthcare Fraud: Pedro Van Rhyn Soler and Edgardo Van Rhyn Soler Charged With One Count of Health Care Fraud

December 2, 2016 FraudsWatch 0

Two Defendants Indicted For Healthcare Fraud And Money Laundering SAN JUAN, P.R. – On November 29, 2016, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging defendants Pedro Van Rhyn Soler and Edgardo Van Rhyn Soler […] Read More