Politics

Allen Stanford Gets 110 Years for Orchestrating $7 Billion Investment Fraud Scheme

R. Allen Stanford, the former board of directors chairman of Stanford International Bank (SIB), has been sentenced to a total of 110 years in prison for orchestrating a 20-year investment fraud scheme in which he misappropriated $7 billion from SIB to...

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Barren County Financial Advisor Charged with Embezzling Approximately $2.4 Million from Clients

A Barren County, Kentucky financial advisor has been indicted by a federal grand jury meeting in Bowling Green on charges of defrauding clients residing in Kentucky and southern Indiana of approximately $2.4 million, announced David J. Hale, United...

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Former EPISD Superintendent Garcia Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges

United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan, and U.S. Department of Education Inspector General Kathleen S. Tighe announced that in El Paso this afternoon, 56-year-old Lorenzo Garcia,...

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Federal prosecutors drop case against Edwards

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The US justice department has dropped the criminal case against former senator and two-time presidential hopeful John...

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Tecumseh Man Ordered to Serve 51 Months in Prison and Pay Over $4.6 Million in Restitution for Health Care Fraud in Sales of Prosthetics

Lance E. Faulkner, 46, from Tecumseh, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGiusti to serve 51 months in prison for health care fraud in connection with sales of prosthetic limbs and components, announced Sanford C....

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Guilford Resident Pleads Guilty to Federal Tax Charges

David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANNUNZIATA GERMANA, also known as Annunziata Acquarlo, 31, of Guilford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to...

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President of Real Estate Loan Company Sentenced to 55 Months in Prison, Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million for Fraud Scheme

A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 55 months of incarceration on his conviction of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

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Former President of Keyworth Mortgage Funding Group Receives 13-Month Prison Sentence for Bank Fraud Conviction

The day before yesterday, a federal judge in Santa Fe, New Mexico sentenced Manuel Garcia, 70, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, to a 13-month prison sentence, to be followed five years of supervised release, for his bank fraud conviction...

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