Recent Posts in Identity Theft Category
Posted on Oct 22, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A Los Angeles doctor assistant who stole doctors identities in order to write medically unnecessary prescriptions for medical equipment and diagnostic tests was sentenced to 72 months in a federal ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
In Irvine, California, police arrested six people and closed three businesses after they executed search warrants after a long investigation of a local prostitution ring. Police said the sex crime ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
In Sacramento, California, Michael Garcia, 39, of Stockton, was sentenced by a United States District Judge to almost 6 years in a federal prison for fraud related to computers and in connection with ...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
In Los Angeles, a doctor's assistant who worked at fraudulent medical clinics where he used the stolen identities of doctors to write prescriptions for unnecessary durable medical equipment and ...
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Posted on May 13, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Mar 13, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
The girlfriend of mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger has agreed to plead guilty to various federal crime charges related to helping him avoid capture for 16 years. Catherine Greig will plead ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Jan 7, 2011 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2010 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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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