Recent Posts in Wire Fraud Category
Posted on Apr 1, 2013 By Cron, Israels & Stark
In Los Angeles, the CEO of a Diamond Bar investment company has pled guilty to two federal criminal charges for his participation in a ponzi scheme to defraud investors in his bogus day-trading ...
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Posted on Feb 27, 2013 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A former Customs and Border Protection Officer, Thomas Silva, has been sentenced to federal prison for 8 months after he pled guilty to concealing a person from arrest. This federal criminal offense ...
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Posted on Feb 7, 2013 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A United States Attorney in San Diego announced a federal indictment of twin brothers Anthony Casias and Leopold Casias, Jr., for their criminal scheme to defraud sports fans through their company ...
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Posted on Oct 7, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
In Fresno, California, a 26-count federal indictment was unsealed charging nine people in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. The indictment was returned in July 2012, by a federal grand jury in Fresno. The ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A Glendale, California man was sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison for operating a loan fraud scheme that brought in over $5 million in less than a year. Henrik Sardariani, 44, was sentenced by ...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
A San Fernando Valley, California real estate agent was arrested for operating a Ponzi scheme from companies based in the Santa Clarita Valley. She has been charged with the federal crimes of wire ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
An Anaheim Hills, California man was sentenced to 12 years in a federal prison in connection with his part in a mortgage fraud conspiracy and for tax evasion. Gregory Flores was also ordered to pay ...
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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 28, 2012 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Cron, Israels & Stark
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, ...
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Posted on Dec 31, 2010 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 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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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By Cron, Israels & Stark
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 Cron, Israels & Stark
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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