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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ala.– Behind a barn off a dirt road in Washington County near the Tibbie community, a track hoe began digging and with every scoop of earth it pulled away what had been buried for six years was slowly revealed a white, 2006 Hummer H2. "We are looking at an individual who apparently owned this vehicle, that buried the vehicle and collected quite a bit of…

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Carla B. Freedman, issued the following news release on March 30, 2022:. Hector J. Sanchez, age 30, of Rensselaer, New York, pled guilty today to defrauding pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs administered by the New York State Department of Labor. The announcement was made by United States…

Brian Webb, of Naples, was arrested March 15 after he failed to turn himself in March 14, records show. Brandon Jourdan, of Cape Coral, a contractor for Webb's company, was arrested March 13. His contractor, Brandon Jourdan, is accused of paying, waiving or rebating all or part of an insurance deductible with the intent to injure, defraud or deceive, according to his…

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against three software engineers employed at Twilio, Inc., a San Francisco- based cloud computing communications company, and four family members and friends for allegedly generating more than $1 million in collective profits by insider trading ahead of the company's…

GRAND RAPIDS— A Grand Rapids man, serving prison time for home invasions in Ottawa County he committed while nude, has been sentenced to another 16 years behind bars for securities fraud. Joshua Rupp, 37, pleaded guilty to defrauding investors and was sentenced last week in federal court, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan announced.

Darrius Hollis, 28, of Quitman, was sentenced to serve a total of 42 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release by U.S. In addition, Lawson ordered Hollis to pay $42,667 in restitution to the Georgia Department of Labor. The U.S. Department of Labor ran a query of its claims database and discovered that an unemployment insurance claim…

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Rachael S. Rollins, issued the following news release on March 23, 2022:. The former owner of a Peabody construction company was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS of payroll taxes and to defraud his workers' compensation insurance carrier by failing to disclose how many workers he…
A crypto mining investment was nothing more than a twist on a Ponzi scheme, authorities say.

From April 2014 to December 2019 the BitClub Network solicited money from investors in exchange for shares of purported cryptocurrency mining pools and and rewarded investors for recruiting new investors into the scheme.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Erie has confirmed in writing what it said in court about possible plea deals in play in the $22 million health care fraud case against the Hertel& Brown Physical& Aquatic Therapy. "It is highly unlikely that all 21 defendants will proceed to trial," Assistant U.S. Attorney Christian Trabold said in a written document filed in U.S….

NEW ORLEANS– U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that that DENIS J. JOACHIM, age 55, DONNA K. JOACHIM, age 55, residents of Covington, Louisiana, and their company, The Total Financial Group, Inc., having previously pled guilty, were sentenced on March 17, 2022 by United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier, for their roles in creating, marketing, and operating what it…

Federal prosecutors have charged the former chief financial officer for the Lander- based Wyoming Catholic College with defrauding a government COVID-19 business relief program, the Wyoming Business Council and a New York investment firm out of millions of dollars by falsely claiming that he had amassed a fortune in a booming gin distillery and hand…

Sarah Jo Monty, 39, tried to convince her insurance company to pay more than $4,200 for a Silver Mountain Lodge vacation and 55 hours of missed work. The next day, she filed a claim with her insurance company, First National Insurance, a subsidiary of Safeco and Liberty Mutual. When a Safeco agent called her on Jan. 2, Monty said she was feeling sore and would be seeking…
Prosecutors say a former McKinsey partner traded options on inside information.

A former Arkansas lawyer falsified information in order to receive Social Security disability payments by lying to the Social Security Administration about her employment status.