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Testimony in Marilyn Mosby's mortgage fraud case wrapped up today as prosecutors took their last opportunity to challenge the defendant on her central narrative:. "You testified that in July 2020 you knew you owed the IRS money," asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Zelinsky. After many back and forths and sidebars– plus a suggestion from U.S. Judge Lydia Kay…

Holtec International, a Florida- based company with a high-profile presence in Camden, has agreed to pay a $5 million penalty to the State of New Jersey and avoid prosecution over its applications for tax credits. Holtec and Singh Real Estate Enterprises, a related company, agreed not to pursue further the $1 million in tax credits they applied for.

—A Russian billionaire art collector lost a legal fight with Sotheby’ s on Tuesday, when a U.S. jury sided with the auction house in a lawsuit over claims that the businessman was ripped off while assembling a trove of works that included a famous painting known as“ the lost Leonardo.”. A New York federal jury deliberated for a few hours before reaching a decision in…

In 2014 and 2015, Nick Mosby, who was a member of the Baltimore City Council at the time, falsely claimed thousands of dollars of charitable deductions on his taxes, federal prosecutors told a judge Monday. “There just weren’ t enough funds to make those charitable donations,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron Zelinsky told the federal judge, urging her to allow him to ask…

In an October 2020 indictment, officials said https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/virginia-man-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-commit-wire-fraud " target=" _blank "> Rishi Budhadev, 38, who lived in Richmond and Fredericksburg during extended visits to the U.S., served as a" money mule "between October and December 2015. Officials said that,…

The bipartisan slate of candidates who received money include Democratic U.S. Rep. The FBI confirmed to Gambit that Trisha Patel was arrested on Dec. 18, and have alleged that in 2021 she defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a Tennessee financial company of more than $7 million. In a text message to Gambit earlier this month, Corley said he was "shocked…

In a release, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut's office said James Keating, a 51- year-old from Paoli, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in the New Haven Federal Court and charged with 10 counts of wire fraud. Between 2017 and 2021, the U.S. attorney's office said, Keating defrauded Allied World in two ways. Second, the U.S. attorney's office said,…

Jan. 24— A former Chapel Hill transportation engineer was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and was ordered to pay almost $1 million to his victims Tuesday after pleading guilty in federal court to a Ponzi investment-fraud scheme. He resigned from his traffic planning job with the town of Chapel Hill in November 2021, after filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is looking into sexual harassment allegations at a Pittsburgh agency.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently took the unusual step of reopening an investigation into sexual harassment claims against a top-selling Pittsburgh, Pa. insurance agency.

In 2020, around the time she was completing a mortgage application for a vacation house in Florida, Baltimore State’ s Attorney Marilyn Mosby did something she hadn’ t done for years: She filed a tax return separate from her husband. When the Internal Revenue Service processed Mosby’ s return, the federal agency notified her that it was taking the money she was due…

SUPERIOR— The former executive director of Harbor House Crisis Shelters was sentenced Friday in Douglas County Circuit Court for stealing more than $100,000 from the ministry. Chelsea Anne Branley, 34, of Superior, pleaded guilty to felony counts of theft-business setting and fraudulent writings by a corporation officer. Under the conditions of her…
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A new study by the Financial Services Institute claims the DOL fiduciary rule proposal would cost a lot more to implement than expected.

A study commissioned by the Financial Services Institute finds that the Department of Labor fiduciary rule proposal would cost firms $2.7 billion to implement.

The state Department of Health suspended the license of the former nurse Friday for defrauding her employees at the dialysis clinics she managed in Skagit County. Rather had not responded to a statement of charges regarding her convictions of fraud and identity theft, according to the Department of Health. She stole the identities of employees who worked…

The Nebraska Department of Insurance is investigating a Lincoln claims examiner in connection with $885,000 in claims suspected to be fraudulent, according to newly filed court documents. But in an affidavit to obtain a search warrant, served at the suspect's home Jan. 2, Investigator Charles Starr with the Department of Insurance's fraud prevention…