January 19, 2010
A federal judge has sentenced a Harrah, Okla., woman to three years in prison for embezzling military life insurance proceeds meant for her son. U.S. District Judge Stephen Friot also ordered Trisha Fish to pay more than $362,000 in restitution. …
December 15, 2009
Donald Martin Steffensen, 70, of Saint George, Utah, has been arrested by California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators and members of the Madera County District Attorney’s Office after he was returned to the United States from the Republic of the …
November 23, 2009
A federal grand jury in Iowa has indicted the partner of an alleged embezzler of $5.9 million from the insurance company Aviva USA. According to court records made public Nov. 19, Marla Randolph Stevens is charged with conspiring to commit …
November 17, 2009
A man who lived the high life in Sausalito pled guilty yesterday to setting a fire that destroyed a warehouse filled with 6 million bottles of wine and to selling wine he was supposed to be storing for customers. The …
November 9, 2009
A 21-month investigation has culminated in charges against a Tulsa, Okla., attorney and a former attorney on allegations that they embezzled more than $1.1 million from clients in insurance-related cases, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson announced. William J. Anton and …
October 26, 2009
A woman accused of embezzling an estimated $5.9 million from insurance company Aviva USA has pleaded not guilty. Phyllis Stevens entered her plea in Iowa. Court records indicate Stevens was indicted by a grand jury on 18 counts of wire …
October 19, 2009
A Kansas City, Kan., man has been accused of setting fire to a Leavenworth church where he worked so he could collect insurance money. A federal grand jury indicted 45-year-old Carva Lee White on three counts of mail fraud, two …
September 25, 2009
A Huntington, West Virginia woman has been sentenced to three years and a month in federal prison for embezzling $1.1 million from her company’s clients. Andrea Mills formerly owned Allied Benefit Administrators Inc., a third-party administrator of employee health-benefit claims. …
June 26, 2009
A 43-year-old Sioux Falls, S.D., man was ordered to serve 18 months in prison and repay nearly $430,000 he stole from his employer over more than four years. Kyle Barfoth pleaded guilty in federal court in Sioux Falls to embezzling …
June 19, 2009
A Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed in Oklahoma accuses a former auditor of embezzling almost $1.2 million from the Commissioners of the Land Office (CLO), Attorney General Drew Edmondson said. Roger Q. Melson, Jr. is accused of 174 counts of …