A man accused of ripping off storm victims in Ohio and Kentucky has pleaded guilty to nine counts of theft. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Joshua Salyers entered the guilty pleas in Hamilton County court in southern Ohio Tuesday. …
A 33-year-old St. Louis man has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of a Missouri insurance agent. Cleo S. Hines pleaded entered guilty pleas Friday in St. Charles County Court to charges of robbery and second-degree murder. Hines and 35-year-old …
A South Carolina man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal fraud charge, acknowledging his role in an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand. Gerald B. Hardin of Cayce told U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie …
An Australian drilling company pleaded guilty Tuesday to three safety violations in connection with a 2010 coal mine disaster in New Zealand that killed 29 miners. VLI Drilling pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court to charges that it failed …
An Okolona, Miss., man has pleaded guilty to FEMA fraud. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Ronnie G. Beard entered the plea Tuesday in federal court in Aberdeen. Beard was indicted in December 2011 on two counts that he …
A former East Texas bank president faces up to 30 years in federal prison for using customer funds to pay his home contractor. Prosecutors in Lufkin on Monday announced the guilty plea from 33-year-old Willard T. Scott of Nacogdoches. The …
An Ohio man must repay more than $30,000 after he was discovered working as a real estate agent while collecting injured worker benefits. Greg Robinson pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ …
Two Central Illinois women have pleaded guilty of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods. The two woman conducted business as “The Purse Lady” and sold counterfeit items. They each face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. …
A Costa Rican company has agreed to plead guilty to a $670 million global insurance fraud scheme. Provident Capital Indemnity Ltd. entered a plea agreement Friday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, where its majority owner and president is scheduled …
A Livingston County, Mich., jail inmate who authorities say tried to get a fellow prisoner to burn down his home has pleaded guilty in the case. WHMI-FM and the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell report Jeremy Wilds …