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Adviser gets 12 years in fraud case
A federal judge sentenced an investment adviser yesterday to 12 years in prison on fraud charges related to the loss of $213 million in a hedge fund at the Ohio agency for injured workers. Mark Lay, chief executive of the now defunct MDL Capital...Tags: Ohio, Punishment, Corporate Crime
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Employee Of Hartford Grocery Indicted On Food Stamp Fraud Charge
Courant Staff WriterAn employee of a North End grocery has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a food stamp fraud charge after allegedly allowing program recipients to purchase nonfood items and access cash with their benefit cards, according to documents filed in U.S....Tags: Prosecution, Groceries, Connecticut, Police Investigations, Corporate Crime
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Drinking with the enemy
The Virginia GazetteAnheuser-Busch filed suit Monday against InBev, accusing the Belgian brewer of deceptive practices and securities fraud in the hostile takeover. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri, claims InBev made...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Ethics, Warren Buffett
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2 plead guilty in $100M currency scam
Two men who ran a scheme out of Great Neck and New Jersey offices, bilking investors out of tens of millions of dollars by purportedly trading in foreign currency, pleaded guilty to fraud charges yesterday, federal officials said. Michael MacCaull, 36,...Tags: New Jersey, Punishment, Corporate Crime
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Deposition OK'd Of Ex-Chairman Of Cendant Corp.
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a request by prosecutors and Cendant Corp. to depose the company's imprisoned former chairman in an effort to collect $3.2 billion he was ordered to pay in restitution. Walter Forbes, formerly of New Canaan, was ordered...Tags: Stamford, Connecticut, Punishment, Corporate Crime, Howard Johnson
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Faces Two Years In Prison
A local woman who moved in with a bereaved friend in 2006 to help her after the friend's father died will be sentenced in October to up to two years in prison for stealing about $12,000 from the friend in 2007. Judith D. Widdecomb, 54, entered a plea...Tags: Prosecution, Crimes, Theft, Corporate Crime, Punishment
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Rendell signs off on mortgage fraud bills
Of The Morning CallGov. Ed Rendell came to the newest epicenter of the mortgage crisis in Pennsylvania on Tuesday to sign a package of bills that will make mortgage fraud tougher to get away with in the state. Rendell signed the bills at the Exeter Township library, not...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Employees, Pennsylvania, Financial and Business Services, Loans
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Lawsuit slams practices of law firm owned by airport board appointee
Sentinel Staff WritersA law firm owned by a new appointee to the board that runs Orlando International Airport is facing a potential class-action lawsuit that accuses it of running a deceptive "collection mill" on behalf of Wal-Mart, Publix and dozens of other large retailers....Tags: Crimes, JC Penney Company Incorporated, Legal Services, Theft, Orlando International Airport
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ID codes of dead doctors used in Medicare fraud, inquiry finds
The Associated PressSellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based on prescriptions from doctors who were dead, some for 10 years or more, a congressional investigation has found. The...Tags: Florida, Government Health Care, Medicare, Corporate Crime
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Probation Given In Theft Of The Hartford's Furniture
Courant Staff WritersA Windsor man who bought furniture he knew was stolen from The Hartford by one of its managers was sentenced Tuesday to a year of home confinement as part of four years of probation. Terrance Healy, 63, who operated a furniture installation and...Tags: Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Crimes, Bribery, Connecticut, Furniture
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