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Former Government Employee Sentenced for Defrauding Multiple Federal Unemployment and Social Programs Judge Orders Restitution for Welfare Fraud and Threatens Maximum Sentence if Probation is Violated PORTLAND, Ore. – On Tuesday, October 18, 2016, a former employee of the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office and the Oregon Department of Justice was sentenced to probation for […]
Former Miami-Dade County Aviation Department Division Director Pleads Guilty to $5,000,000 Fraud and Kickback Scheme A former Division Director of the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department pled guilty for his involvement in a $5,000,000 fraud and kickback scheme. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent […]
Lanham Man Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Federal Prison for Bank Fraud Conspiracy Baltimore, Maryland – On October 14, 2016, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Junaidu Saljan Savage, a/k/a James Kamara, age 30, of Lanham, Maryland, to 87 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
St. George Man Sentenced To 108 Months In Federal Prison After Convictions For Fraud, Money Laundering Ordered to Pay $12,227,920 in Restitution to Victims SALT LAKE CITY – Edmund Edward Wilson, age 72, of St. George, Utah, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a real estate fraud scheme, will […]