Recent Posts in Wire 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 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 Jan 1, 2012 By admin
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted six foreign nationals for running an elaborate money laundering scheme that scammed hundreds of customers out of more than $4 million in fake Internet ...
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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 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 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 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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Posted on Nov 15, 2010 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a United States Attorney announced that a 13-count indictment was unsealed charging Douglas Heald, of Sacramento; Brandon Hanly, of Redding; and Jerad Maggi in a scheme to ...
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