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U.S. says Petters faked checks, orders in Ponzi scheme
Saint Paul :: Canada | about 1 month ago
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Tom Petters concocted fake checks and purchase orders as part of a Ponzi scheme to deceive retailers into believing that he was transacting more business with them than he actually was, the U.S. government said at his trial on Thursday. With Petters...
Tags: Ponzi, ponzi scheme, Tom Petters, Petters Co., businessman tom, GE Capital, fraud trial
N.L. power company makes safety changes
Toronto :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility The leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's doctors says their contract with the province will likely expire this month before a new one is negotiated. The fraud trial of former cabinet minister Jim Walsh has adjourned until late November, when the defence...
Tags: Jim Walsh, fraud trial, Canada, Toronto
Etheredge fraud trial won't start for months
Wichita :: KS :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Wichita Eagle Wild West World founder Thomas Etheredge's securities fraud trial has been postponed indefinitely. Etheredge, charged with misleading nine private investors as he struggled to raise money for the insolvent theme park, was supposed to...
Tags: Sedgwick County District Court, securities fraud, Thomas Etheredge, fraud trial, Wichita
Appellate court keeps R. Allen Stanford behind bars
Houston :: TX :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Allen Stanford will have to remain in jail until his trial on fraud charges, a federal appellate court ruled today...District Judge David Hittner did not abuse his discretion when he refused to let Stanford go free on bail. White collar criminal defendants...
Tags: R. Allen Stanford, Sir Allen Stanford, U.S, flight risk, New Orleans, appeal court, court ruling, cricket mogul, fraud trial, circuit court
Opening arguments heard at Katapodis fraud trial
Birmingham :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility John Katopodis took money given to a computer charity by Jefferson County and used it to visit casinos in New Orleans and Louisiana, take trips to Florida and the Bahamas and donate to political campaigns, federal prosecutors said today, the first day...
Tags: John Katopodis, Jefferson County, Birmingham, fraud trial
Ex-Oilers owner's California fraud trial set for August
Edmonton :: Canada | 7 months ago
Credibility The California bankruptcy fraud trial of Peter Pocklington, the former owner of the Edmonton Oilers, has been pushed back to Aug. 11, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday. Pocklington's jury trial was originally slated for May 5....
Tags: Peter Pocklington, bankruptcy fraud, California, fraud trial
Jury deliberations recess in Sue Schmitz fraud trial
Decatur :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Jurors have stopped deliberations for today in the federal fraud trial of state Rep. Sue Schmitz, but one juror may have to be replaced when they return at 10 a.m...A juror has a sinus headache and had an appointment with a doctor scheduled for 8:30 a.m.
Tags: Sue Schmitz, fraud trial, closing arguments
Schmitz continues testifying, saying she's been truthful
Decatur :: IL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Attorney William Athanas began this morning by asking State Rep. Sue Schmitz, D-Toney, to say which people who testified in her federal fraud trial this past week had lied. After Athanas asked her about testimony some of the witnesses had given, there...
Tags: Sue Schmitz, federal fraud, fraud trial, William Athanas
Feds open insurance fraud trial against Pa. ex-judge
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The government painted former state Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce as a man desperate for money when, they said, he filed false insurance claims for a minor fender bender in August 2001. At the time he submitted the claims in the summer of 2002,...
Tags: fraud trial, Pennsylvania
'I lost everything,' Radwanski testifies
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility The charges relate to a $15,000 travel advance Radwanski received from the government that he used to pay back a maxed-out government credit card and the hospitality claims he made while in the appointed office of privacy commissioner...Despite negotiating...
Tags: George Radwanski, privacy commissioner, fraud trial, commissioner george, Art Lamarche, travel advance, radwanski received
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