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Mar 28, 2013
Allegedly Falsified Documents to Unlawfully Obtain Payments for Personal Items The former office manager of the Lake Forest Park Water District is being arraigned today on an indictment charging 15 counts of wire fraud. Jackee Bormann-Zweekhorst, 40, is scheduled to…
Mar 27, 2013
PLANO, TXA 58-year-old Pasadena, Texas man has been found guilty of investment fraud charges in the Eastern District of Texas. A federal jury needed just six minutes to convict Gary Lynn McDuff of conspiring to defraud investors of over $11…
Mar 6, 2013
WASHINGTONA former health care clinic director and licensed therapist pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN). Paul Thomas Layman, 66, of Miami, pleaded guilty before U.S.…
Feb 28, 2013
SANTA ANA, CAA Long Beach man was arrested yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on federal sex trafficking charges that allege he worked with a previously charged defendant to coerce women to work as prostitutes. Marquis Monte…
Feb 27, 2013
WASHINGTONA former Michigan resident was found guilty by a federal jury today in Miami of child sex tourism charges. Matthew Andrew Carter, aka William Charles Harcourt and Bill Carter, 67, formerly of Brighton, Michigan, was found guilty in U.S. District…
Feb 25, 2013
PHILADELPHIAMichael Wilkerson, 47, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Denise Haines, 43, of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania, were convicted of engaging in a scheme to defraud JP Morgan Chases predecessor, Chase Manhattan Bank, by fraudulently obtaining home loans valued at more than $6 million…
Feb 21, 2013
Plea is Part of the Investigation That Led to Conviction of Former District of Columbia Council Member Harry L. Thomas, Jr. WASHINGTON Millicent D. West, the former director and chief executive officer of a non-profit organization that promotes youth opportunities,…
Jan 24, 2013
Manuel Ernesto Ortiz-Barraza, an independent financial consultant, was extradited to the United States today for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of over $2.5 million. Ortiz-Barraza, 56, was charged…
Jan 24, 2013
by Capt. Agneta Murnan 438th Air Expeditionary Wing and NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan One of three new Cessna 208Bs taxies to its parking pad after landing at Shindand Air Base, Oct. 2011. As of Dec. 2012, the last of 26…
Jan 16, 2013
WASHINGTONSix Detroit-area residents and one Chicago-area resident were arrested today by federal agents on charges arising from the ongoing investigation into an alleged $22 million home health care fraud scheme. According to the 18-count indictment returned January 15, 2013, and…
Jan 16, 2013
Marissa Mark wanted someone dead, her ex-boyfriends new girlfriend, to be precise. And she found a way to have it done¦from her computer. In September 2006, the Pennsylvania resident and recent college graduate logged on to HitmanForHire.net, a site often…
Jan 16, 2013
COLUMBUSGordon L. Yocom, 44, of Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for fraudulently obtaining a mortgage loan to finance the purchase of a real estate property in Powell, Ohio. Yocom agreed to forfeit $119,000, which represented…