Financial Fraud

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

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

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

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