North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long today announced the arrest of an Apex woman on one count of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses. Mary Grantham Hicks, aka Mary Linda Hicks, 58, is the owner of …
An insurance agency owner charged with killing a North Carolina Department of Insurance employee investigating his business won’t face the death penalty, prosecutors said. Prosecutors didn’t explain the July 17 decision revealed during a court hearing for Michael Howell, 40, …
A Dade County, Florida real estate developer in January 2008 filed a $25 million lawsuit against a real estate blogger alleging, among other charges, defamation of character based on the blogger’s opinion published solely on his blog (MiamiCondoInvestments). Hollo v. …
On July 8, Conway-based Home BancShares filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that said a senior officer at one of its banks embezzled $2.1 million. John Allison, Home BancShares’ chairman and CEO, later declined to name …
A West Virginia man who says his association with the failed First National Bank of Keystone cost him his banking career should be stripped of a $2.4 million damage award, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 4th U.S. Circuit …
The Mississippi Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the embezzlement convictions of the former owners of Salts Funeral Home in Booneville, Miss. A Lee County jury in 2005 convicted Michael I. Salts and Alice Marie Salts each on …
A man who siad his association with the failed First National Bank of Keystone, W.V. cost him his banking career should be stripped of a $2.4 million damage award, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court …
A judge dismissed most of a lawsuit in which an indicted insurance executive accused Alabama Gov. Bob Riley and others of conspiring to drive him out of the insurance business. Montgomery Circuit Judge Truman Hobbs Jr. rejected John Goff’s claims …
North Carolina officials arrested a Kinston woman for embezzlement and obtaining property by false pretense, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. Department of Insurance investigators arrested Terri Lynn Spence, 34, June 9 and charged her with four counts of embezzlement …
Mississippi has a new tool to help residents avoid contractors who may take their money and run, especially families still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina. Attorney General Jim Hood said his office’s Web site, www.agjimhood.com, now provides links that lists contractors …