Four Michigan Residents Charged with COVID-Relief Fraud
A criminal information was docketed Tuesday charging four Michigan residents in connection with a wire fraud scheme involving over $4.1
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Bergen County Woman Pleads Guilty To Embezzling Money From Guided Tour Company And Subscribing To False Tax Returns
In this way, Laluf and Baroni embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company. Baroni then fraudulently omitted the proceeds from the embezzlement scheme from her tax year 2016 tax return. Laluf pleaded guilty before Judge Neals to a separate information related to the scheme on September 20, 2021.
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Illinois Man Charged With Stealing Unemployment Insurance Benefits While Incarcerated
Between August 2020 and November 2020, Stokes was incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix, a federal correctional institutional with an adjacent satellite camp located in Fort Dix, New Jersey. While incarcerated, Stokes and his associates caused UIB
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Danville Restaurant Owner Sentenced for Wire Fraud, Food Stamp Fraud
According to court documents, from October 2010 to July 2018, SNAP redemptions for Seafood and More exceeded the state average of all other seafood specialty class stores in Virginia by more than $2,465,555. In total, Seafood and More caused approximately
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New Jersey Man Extradited to United States to Face Charges for Wire Fraud and International Money Laundering
Lawson was the owner of several internet-based companies that matched art and music teachers with students in need of lessons throughout the United States. The students entered into contracts with Lawson’s companies and agreed to pay for lessons via online credit card transactions.
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Former Church Employee Sentenced to Over Two Years in Prison for Stealing from the Church
Noland was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Chief Judge Leonard T. Strand. Noland was sentenced to 27 months’ imprisonment. She was ordered to make $274,222.09 in restitution the church. She must also serve a three-year term of supervised release after the prison term.
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Peruvian National Sentenced to Over 9 Years in Prison for Defrauding Thousands of Spanish-Speaking U.S. Immigrants
Milla was the co-owner of the Latinos en Accion and Accion Latino call centers in Lima, Peru. From April 2011 until his arrest in July 2019, he and his co-conspirators called victims, as well as victims’ family members and friends, and fraudulently threatened them
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Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges for Fraudulently Obtaining Over $1.6 Million in Paycheck Protection Program Loans
Price pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and three counts of money laundering. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 29 and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each count of wire fraud and 10 years in prison for each count of money
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Sioux Falls Man Sentenced for Wire Fraud
Instead of sending the checks to Curry Seed for deposit, Harkness falsely and fraudulently deposited some of those customer checks into checking accounts he controlled. Harkness then used the funds for his purposes.
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