Recent Posts in Federal Fraud Category
Posted on May 13, 2012 By admin
A San Marino, California businessman was sentenced to over 10 years in federal prison for operating a scheme to defraud banks, where he used straw borrowers with fake documents to obtain about $9 ...
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Posted on Apr 6, 2012 By admin
Kinde Durkee, who used to be a campaign treasurer for Democratic candidates in California, pleaded guilty to five counts of mail fraud after an FBI investigation found she pilfered more than $7 ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2012 By admin
A North Hollywood, California man was sentenced to 64 months in a federal prison for submitting a false loan application, obtaining a credit card in somebody else's name and running up charges on ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a West Covina woman who admitted running an investment ponzi scheme that took in almost $7 million from about 150 victims has been sentenced to 108 months in federal ...
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Posted on Sep 12, 2011 By admin
A Hollywood producer and businessman pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to federal charges of stock fraud and bilking an investor. Drew Levin, of Pacific Palisades, conspired to inflate the revenue and ...
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Posted on Apr 25, 2011 By admin
Ronald Hannah and Alison Hannah, of Fallbrook, California, pled guilty to bankruptcy fraud related charges in United States District Court in San Diego. According to their own admissions, in March ...
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Posted on Apr 5, 2011 By admin
A Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty to using fraudulent medical clinics and stolen identities of physicians to defraud Medicare of more than $6.2 million. This guilty plea was announced by the ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By admin
A Canadian woman convicted of mail fraud targeting elderly victims is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles, California. Carrie Elizabeth Hope, from the Canadian province of ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a Beverly Hills man has been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges for running an investment scheme that collected more than $9.5 million from victims who ...
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Posted on Feb 18, 2011 By admin
In a nationwide crackdown on Medicare fraud , six individuals in Los Angeles were arrested on charges of submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare, most of which were for electric wheelchairs that were ...
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Posted on Feb 16, 2011 By admin
Nearly 100 people were arrested in a massive operation by federal and local police targeting Armenian organized crime, in particular, gang members of the powerful street gang Armenian Power. Operation ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By admin
A United States attorney announced that brothers Matthew La Madrid and Lance La Madrid pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy and mail fraud charges in connection with their operation of the Plus ...
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Posted on Dec 31, 2010 By admin
In Santa Ana, California, an Irvine man pleaded not guilty after surrendering to special agents with the FBI in an investment scheme case that allegedly involved losses totaling $2.4 million. Charles ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By admin
Two brothers were taken into federal custody on charges that they bilked private lenders out of more than $5 million by pledging as collateral properties they did not own and fabricating numerous ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, the promoter of a bogus investment scheme involving distressed business assets pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a Ponzi scheme in which he raised at least $12 ...
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