Recent Posts in White Collar Crime Category
Posted on Apr 6, 2011 By admin
The owner of a Los Angeles medical supply company that fraudulently collected about $2 million from Medicare for unneeded medical equipment has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Marlon ...
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Posted on Feb 15, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a Downey man was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for running two fraud schemes. A Ponzi scheme that took in at least $30 million from about 500 victims, and a ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 By admin
In Sacramento, California, Shane Burreson, of Orland, pleaded guilty before a United States District Judge for his role in a multi-million-dollar builder bailout mortgage fraud scheme. According to ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2011 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, the former director of construction for Huntington Memorial Hospital was arrested on federal mail fraud arising from his role in a construction kickback scheme that brought ...
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Posted on Jan 24, 2011 By admin
In Bakersfield, California, David Marshall Crisp, Carlyle Lee Cole, Julie Dianne Farmer, Sneha Ramesh Mohammadi, Jayson Peter Costa, Jeriel Salinas, Robinson Dinh Nguyen, Michael Angelo Munoz, ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2011 By admin
The co-founder of a criminal enterprise known as the Tran Organization pled guilty in San Diego to conspiring to participate in the organization’s scheme to cheat casinos across the country out of ...
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Posted on Jan 13, 2011 By admin
In Riverside, California, a former official with Chase Bank has been found guilty of disclosing the existence of a suspicious activity report (SAR) filed with federal officials, and then soliciting ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2011 By admin
In San Jose, California, former FBI employee pled guilty in federal court in San Jose to making false statements to a government agency. Rachelle Thomas-Zuill admitted during her plea agreement that ...
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Posted on Jan 6, 2011 By admin
In Sacramento, California, a United States attorney announced that Melissa Villegas, of Sacramento, the last defendant in a mortgage fraud scheme, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Rick ...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2010 By admin
Following an announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, D.C., representatives of the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force in Los Angeles, including the United States Attorney, ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2010 By admin
Federal authorities have arrested a Beverly Hills woman on federal wire fraud charges for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme that collected nearly $11 million from scores of Southland victims who were ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2010 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a Vancouver, Canada man has been sentenced to 171 months in federal prison for running an international lottery scam that took in $1.8 million from mostly elderly victims ...
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Posted on Nov 23, 2010 By admin
In Fresno, California, a United States Attorney announced that Norma Pena, of Delhi, California, was arrested after a federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment, charging her with embezzlement ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By admin
An admitted swindler was sentenced in San Diego federal court to serve 41 months in prison and pay more than $15 million restitution to more than 200 victims of his Ponzi scheme. Mohit A. Khanna, ran ...
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Posted on Nov 11, 2010 By admin
In San Francisco, California, the owner of an illegal internet pharmacy pleaded guilty to distributing controlled substances outside the scope of professional medical practice, a United States ...
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Posted on Nov 5, 2010 By admin
In San Francisco, California, Lily C. Aspillera was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling approximately $1.77 million from a client of a major professional services firm and for not ...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2010 By Jerry Kastler
Two physicians were arrested for allegedly subjecting mentally ill homeless people to unnecessary tests and other procedures at a North Hollywood clinic in order to submit fraudulent bills to ...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2010 By admin
A patient recruiter who sold the personal information of Medicare beneficiaries from San Diego and Los Angeles to fraudulent Los Angeles medical clinics and durable medical equipment (DME) companies ...
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Posted on Oct 19, 2010 By admin
A federal grand jury in San Jose, California indicted Barbra Alexander, of Monterey, California, Beth Pina, of Fairfield, Idaho, and Michael Swanson, of Seaside, California, with mail fraud, wire ...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010 By admin
An Orange County, California attorney has been indicted on charges related to a mortgage fraud scheme in which 30 homes were purchased at inflated prices, with the excess proceeds going to the lawyer ...
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