Man pleads guilty to $190K insurance fraud scheme, extortion A bookmaker has pleaded guilty to charges he shot a gambler with a stun gun and tried to burn down a restaurant in a $190,000 insurance fraud scheme in Hartford. The …
The former employee of an insurance company faces two years in federal prison and more than $168,000 in restitution after being sentenced on a fraud conviction by U.S. district judge in Oklahoma City. Carla Jo Mires, of Oklahoma City, was …
Prosecutors say a former South Brunswick, N.J., fire commissioner has admitted stealing more than $700,000 while serving as treasurer of one of the town’s fire districts. Charles Hoens III, a 61-year-old South Brunswick resident, pleaded guilty Monday to theft and …
Two former financial executives of a beach resort on Florida’s Gulf coast were sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement. Former Tradewinds Islands Resorts CFO Sam Baage and former technology director Harold William James were each sentenced to three …
A former clerk for a northeastern Iowa town has been given 21 months in prison for embezzling more than $81,500 in public funds. Former Masonville clerk Christine King was sentenced in federal court in Cedar Rapids on Monday. She’d pleaded …
Marquet International Ltd. announced the release of The 2012 Marquet Report on Embezzlement – its 5th annual study of major embezzlement cases in the United States. The study examined 528 major embezzlement cases active in the U.S. in 2012 – …
A former executive director and past president of the Florida Surplus Lines Association (FSLA) has been indicted for allegedly embezzling an estimated $130,000 in association funds. Roger Gobler has been charged with 11 counts of mail fraud and five counts …
A Leicester, Mass., woman has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 from two companies she worked for. Kimberly Powell pleaded guilty Wednesday to larceny of more than $250, credit card fraud over $250 and making a false entry in …
Some supporters of the Woodruff Arts Center are questioning why it has taken so long to investigate what arts center officials have called the embezzlement of more than $1 million. Officials with the Atlanta, Ga., arts center said in November …
A former secretary with the Oklahoma Farm Bureau is charged with embezzling from the organization. The Oklahoma Insurance Department says 31-year-old Bonnie Maloy allegedly wrote checks to herself from the Farm Bureau’s account. Part of the Farm Bureau’s role is …