Recent Posts in 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 28, 2012 By admin
For five years, an employee at Santa Monica based Lionsgate Entertainment arranged for the company to pay a cardboard salesman more than $2 million for marketing display boxes he never delivered. Both ...
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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 Mar 6, 2012 By admin
Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was sentenced to three years in a California state prison after a judge rejected a last minute effort to change his no contest plea and fight the grand theft ...
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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 Jul 8, 2011 By admin
Three former PTA members at the Diamond Bar, California elementary school have been charged with almost two dozen criminal charges relating to a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40 people out of ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By admin
Former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra was once considered baseball's most improbable post-career success story because of his financial success after retiring from Major League Baseball. But ...
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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 Mar 16, 2011 By admin
The chief executive officer of National Lampoon Inc., the comedy company that brought you "Animal House" and the "Vacation" movie franchise, was arrested in West Hollywood, California for an alleged ...
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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 Jan 10, 2011 By admin
Police detectives have identified over 200 victims of credit card fraud at a Sierra Madre, California gas station and are working to find the business' owner and a man photographed allegedly using a ...
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Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By admin
A Jamaican immigrant who used another man’s identity to buy a BMW reported the identity stolen when he defaulted on the car payments, according to Orange County, California authorities. Ryan Matthews, ...
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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 Dec 6, 2010 By admin
With a new criminal case being filed, federal authorities have now charged three defendants for their roles in a foreclosure rescue scam that promised the owners of hundreds of distressed properties ...
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